Awesome! :D

Blinding - and a great video introduction.

Great to see this framework evolving! Nice work.

Joshua, I have played with the Hype framework, it is a really awesome playground.

I am really amazed how you did the async png encoding trick and how you can save/merge bitmaps larger than the flash limits (4096x4096). Is this reusable (or are there classes available) without the use of hype framework? Can you explain this to me?

thanks all...

Mark... Branden should have TGA output in the next release which can go even bigger.

twitpic.com/yr4bo

you can use HYPE in your own AS3 projects... however ContextSavePNG and the upcoming ContextSaveTGA need to use a BitMap and also need to use FilterCanvasRhythm if you plan on using filter like blur or glow.

HYPE is a set of classes you can used IN ADDITION to anything else you write in AS3... a HYPE project doesn't have to be 100% HYPE. you can write 99% of your project however you want and import and use only the portions of HYPE you need.

hope this helps,

Thanks for your reply. Absolutely stunning! Still don't get how you guys merge multiple bitmapdata objects into 1 encoded object, but I love it :) I am experimenting with generative artwork in flash for a while now, I use multiple bitmap-tiles for that.

The max size artwork (output) I've ever created from flash is 15000x15000px, but there are a lot of memory problems occurring working with those bitmap-sizes. So I render most at 10000x10000. I've written a c#-tool (tiler.stroep.nl) to merge all tiles into a big file. The HYPE solution would save a lot of time, I guess.

Did you already figured out what the max. bitmapsize could be with the CanvasPNGEncoder class?

The PNG encoder maxes out at around 100,000 pixels total or so. However, just two nights ago I was able to get a TGA (Targa) exporter to work and it can spit out truely huge files (though it does take some time). Right now the current record is 19200 x 10800!

This is really exciting... Branden, is the TGA exporter now included in the curent avalaible distribution of HYPE or do we have to wait some more?

not using this myself so far, but wanted to say tanks for sharing. looks like a much needed and easy to use framework. I appreciate the style you guys run this thing, from the quality of this video to putting it on github. wow.