From Blue Mars Developer Guidebook

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Overview

Flash movies can be displayed in Blue Mars in a variety of ways:

• in the HUD
• on the FlashOverlay
• in an ARFlashObject
• as the texture of a Flash Material

Guides

To get started with the Flash Overlay, see the Flash Overlay Quick Start and the FlashOverlay reference.

To get started with the HUD, see the Basic HUD Example and also the Golf example and the HUD reference.

To create an ARFlashObject in the Editor, see ARFlashObject.

To assign a Flash texture to a material in the Material Editor, see Flash Material

Comparison

	HUD	Flash Overlay	ARFlashObject	Flash Material
runs in the Editor	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
positioning	2D coordinates (0-1) and docking/stretching	2D coordinates (pixels)	entity position	entity position
Actionscript version	AS2	AS2 and AS3	AS2 and AS3	AS2
Flash sound	No	Yes	Yes	No
Key Input	HUD.HandleFlashKeys	Yes	No	No
Mouse Input	HUD.HandleFlashEvents	Yes	No	No
Actionscript calls Lua	fscommand	ExternalInterface	No	No
Actionscript called from Lua	HUD.InvokeFlashMethod	FlashOverlay.callMethod	No	Entity.MaterialFlashInvoke
Actionscript variables set from Lua	HUD.SetFlashVariable	No	No	No
Web access	No	Yes	Yes	No
transparency	HUD.SetFlashAlpha (0-1) adjusts background	FlashOverlay.setTransparency(0/1) keys on black	No	background
click-through	HUD.MaskFlashEvents	No	No	No