As an exercise this afternoon, I decided to recreate an earlier demo, though this time in WebGL, via Unity3D. If you didn’t see the previous post it’s here.. And the WebGL/Unity version here… There certainly were more differences than similarities working with Unity as opposed to Stage3D/AS3 (don’t want to use the F-word!). Here’s a […]
Cleaning up on my server I found this demo, created for a prospective client that specialised in making trophies. It’s an interesting mix of libraries. One to trace the bitmap into vector, another to triangulate the front and back faces, and a bevelled extrude class made for Away3D. You can upload your own images, […]
Click for demo Today I’m going to introduce a couple of techniques for improving realism, while reducing the load in real-time 3D scenes using Away3D 4.0. You might be surprised to learn there are no lights in this scene whatsoever. Neither are the materials “baked” in any way. In fact this nice shiny plastic material […]
click here to open (requires Flash 11 beta2 or higher) I remember the title of a book for salesmen, called “Fake it ’til You Make It”, the idea being to fake being successful until you actually become successful. While I haven’t been able to make a physics engine to rival Havok in AS3, I have found […]
To celebrate the newly unveiled Away3D website, and to showcase the power of Broomstick and Molehill compared to previous Flash players and Away3D frameworks, I wanted to share this little client demo. (Incubator player required). UPDATE: Flash 11 Beta is out on labs and the example has been modified to run under the new F11 […]
After seeing David Lenaerts excellent Broomstick example, I’ve been eager to find a workflow to bring motion capture data into Flash. It took a while to work out, not being familiar with the MD5 format at all, but it turned out those nice guys at Away3D had already done all the hard work. I was […]
A practical application of a wave formula, animating a Manta Ray. To keep the body steady while animating the “wings” the formula applies amplitude depending on distance from the centre, multiplied by a cosine to give a fairly smooth transition from centre to wing tip. The formula is still fairly simple and can definatly be […]
Wave Modifier DEMO Spurned on by the success of my first Away3D 4.0 Experiment and what with it being friday afternoon, I thought I’d try another one. After looking at the docs (I know, cheating really) I tried making a wave modifier. Considering the maths is all on the CPU it runs quite well. There […]
Still playing around with Away3dLite. It’s a huge advantage when you want to extend a framework for your own purposes, that the framework itself is compact and understandable. That’s certainly the case with this lastest version of Away3d. I’ve been working for some time with high fidelity models, X3D import and custom material filters. This […]
The first test og Away3dLite looks promising.http://www.videometry.net/away3d/AwayTest.html(Click the screen to start) I fudged the BitmapMaterial so I could use a shader as input.At 30 fps there seems to be no performance hit at all. At higher framerates the shader does cause a dip compared to using a plain bitmap. The size of textures seems to […]