“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”
— Virginia Woolf
Welcome back to another edition of Hype Universe News, packed with amazing tutorials and featured animations from our incredible community of creative animators.
We just released an important update to Whisk, our HTML/PHP editor with a live preview (and little sibling to Hype).
Do you create ads on the Emerse ad network? Check out the new official Emerse export script.
Projects We Love
- A wonderful throwback website showcasing the Electric Zine Maker made by the talented webmaster of Alienmelon.com @rafic20 (also worth a look!)
- Slick Graphical documentation for an HTML editor interface by @peter_bright
- Check out a great collection of Rapidweaver themes by our friend @michelangelo over at Multithemes. They leverage @MaxZieb's ClipPath tool. Also don't miss this example of a morphing button background. Mmm, vector shapes:
Tutorials & Guides
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@MarkHunte built a working demo showing the sharing and writing of data between a Hype document and an iOS database using Core Data. Leveraging Tumult Hype and Swift, this demo document is a great way to get started with webviews that communicate with your iOS app.
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@Photics created a great example of leveraging small snippets of JavaScript code to accomplish specific design goals in a Hype document. In this detailed tutorial video, he shows how to leverage a quick
Math.randomfunction to flip a coin which in turn manages Hype animations. [Download Example File here] -
Learn how to create vector shapes and shapely
s in this new tutorial also by @Photics. (Learn more on the forums here)
@drewbullen created three informative videos about integrating the powerful Three.js 3D library with Hype:
Check them all out here, and make sure you download his example documents.