upload a picture of your face question

[scheletro]

Somebody ask me for a game where you can upload your face in order to play

I know this kind of thread is been discussed in the past but I cant find any

How can I do do that?
How to upload a picture of a player to add to a game?

Can somebody give me some ideas or help on this

[renderhjs]

using php? - I guess that would answer most questions. There is a way init the OS "dialogue to select a file " from within flash (starting flash player 7+) though I never played with it- variables then from the file location (or something like that) then can be passed to php in order to opload that data

[AzraelKans]

Hmmm.. Im not sure, but I think you could use AS 3.0 camera and the Bytes object (im not sure of the name) to actually store the picture in a temp file.

Anyway is not needed, in regular As2.0 create a camera object, copy that surface and then use copypixels (or a draw) to use it as an sprite. I think I have some code here on how to store your camera image (for "motion sensing" purposes)

edit: OOps! you meant without a camera. Is simple just use a web form to upload a file, there are more complicated methods but you dont need anything else.

[hooligan2001]

There is a few tutorials for it, heres just a couple.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flas...erence_pg1.htm
http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/

[Boombanguk]

Originally Posted by scheletro

Somebody ask me for a game where you can upload your face in order to play

I know this kind of thread is been discussed in the past but I cant find any

How can I do do that?
How to upload a picture of a player to add to a game?

Can somebody give me some ideas or help on this

www.racemyface.com

I created that.

[renderhjs]

Originally Posted by Boombanguk

I created that.

it still doesn´t help with the initial question

[Boombanguk]

Originally Posted by renderhjs

it still doesn´t help with the initial question

I wanted to show him that its something I've done, i.e he can ask me what he wants, and I'll try to help him out. Btw..

Basically you need a php script to take the image from Flash,and upload it to a directory on your server. Once its there you can download it again into flash for display.

thats all pretty straightforward stuff. The real tricky bit is how you will incorporate your image into whatever it is you want. For Racemyface ppl can actually choose what part of the downloaded image they want to place into the game. It uses dynamic masking, and getting it all lined up was a pain in the butt.

[SaphuA]

Yeah upload a picture using php. Then load the picture in Flash and allow the user to draw an canvas around it, to use as a mask. So you get decent shapes.

[scheletro]

Thanks for all your comments guys

There is a few tutorials for it, heres just a couple.

Thanks hooligan2001 for those, ill check them out

www.racemyface.com

I created that.

I knew about your game Boombanguk, found a couple of threads about a little problem you had in the game, I was about to contact you, but i wanted to see if there where some tutorials

Ill check the tutorials hooligan2001 put here and if I have any problem ill contact you because you are right, i need a dinamic masking and some more issues

[Boombanguk]

Originally Posted by scheletro

Thanks for all your comments guys
Thanks hooligan2001 for those, ill check them out
I knew about your game Boombanguk, found a couple of threads about a little problem you had in the game, I was about to contact you, but i wanted to see if there where some tutorials

Ill check the tutorials hooligan2001 put here and if I have any problem ill contact you because you are right, i need a dinamic masking and some more issues

cool, just post your question here, and I'll reply. (thats if I dont get banned from this place first)

[scheletro]

Questions all

Because I dont have a clue, I saw those tutoriasl and I think my problem is PHP, the dont seem to work for me and I dont know where the problem is

I can figure out how to make the masking once you have the picture display in your flash, but first i need that first step

[Boombanguk]

whats not working? you know you have to have the flash file online for it to work? if you are already doing that, whats not working?

[scheletro]

yeap, upload everything, I know PHP doesnt work locally unless I have running a special program

Maybe I need to change something in the script, I also give all the permises in my server

Strange

Ill keep looking

[Boombanguk]

The Flash-db is what I based what I did on.

ok so you upload those files (the .swf, html and the php) to your server and it doesn't work? The important line in the php is this

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], "./images/".$_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

where "images" is a folder I created to keep all my images.

If it doesnt work on one server, and you have access to another try another server, because sometimes servers don't allow you to use that php function.

[renderhjs]

Originally Posted by scheletro

yeap, upload everything, I know PHP doesnt work locally unless I have running a special program

you might take a look @
http://portablewebap.com/
its a downloadable smal folder (zip file) where you only need to run a exe file and a whole php system with mysql databse is ready to go and opens the localhost in your default browser. No need to install,- if you want to exit it just click exit on the system tray icon.

[scheletro]

Ill do more tests boombanguk, thanks

Renderhjs, thanks for the efford but im using a MAC so I cant run .exe files