Away3D 2.2: RailAway Express
September 27th, 2008
At the risk of starting something of a tradition, it’s time once again to take you for a little ride. RailAway Express is a ticket for a unique travel into the realm of Away3D 2.2 and it’s new runtime model generation and animation features. Its probably our last Flash 9 demo too.
Almost everything you see along your journey in this 780 kb all in demo is code generated.
A special thanks goes to Andre Michelle and Joa Ebert for their help on the sound dynamics.
Some of the new features in 2.2 include:
Full update details have been posted on the AWAY3D mailing list. You can get the source files by accessing our svn repository or going to our downloads page.
Documentation will be updated within the next few days
So turn up your speakers and enjoy a wild ride into the realm of Away3D 2.2!
The Away3D Team.
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Nice idea :)
Comment by Mr.doob
— September 28, 2008 @ 8:14 am
Wow nice demo guys…
simply great!
Comment by Marcus
— September 28, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
supper
Comment by tony
— September 29, 2008 @ 3:24 am
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— September 29, 2008 @ 6:43 am
Most Excellent!
I’m so waiting for BSP support to make that kind of scene without cuts!
Comment by jalava
— September 30, 2008 @ 4:14 am
I have recently started using Away3D and really love it. Tons of really useful classes!!!
Just one thing that drives my bonkers…. the use init objects instead of params is incredibly counter intuitive since they don’t support code hinting. Why? Large libraries require code hinting to learn the library on the fly, its the one thing that drives me up the wall. Is there any way to get proper code hinting with the init objects?
Comment by Stephan Tanguay — October 2, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Hey Stephan,
The init Object helps to keep your classes short and readable.
We’ve placed a poll a few weeks ago on this, the result was an exact 50/50. So we’ve decided to implement both to make everyone happy. Where you can do new Primitive({initObject}); , you also can do, new Primitive(), prim.prop = and prim.build();
Some classes are not yet supporting both systems but will be updated in upcoming releases. Note that for Flash CS3/CS4 users, a code hinting component will be soon available as well.
Comment by Fabrice Closier
— October 3, 2008 @ 3:50 am
Greate Work – its amazing to look the object running down the railway.
The web is going 3D. I say Web3.0, no wait a minute -> Web 4.0
Comment by Klaus
— October 3, 2008 @ 4:32 am
impressive!i just downloaded a copy of away3d,and be hoping someday i could construct a pretty good stuff like the railway~~
Comment by Gerrile
— October 3, 2008 @ 4:37 am
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Cool!
Comment by Sonic
— October 8, 2008 @ 4:49 am
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Hi, Boys, that’s ready cool!!
Thanks for sharing!!!
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— October 19, 2008 @ 9:37 am
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— October 23, 2008 @ 3:44 am
can you share this project to learn away3d
Comment by yansong
— October 25, 2008 @ 4:08 am
To get started with Away this demo source would not be the easyest way to go. The demo is basically using only 4 classes. The Path, PathExtrude, PathDuplicator and PathAnimator. In the tutorial section you can already find a tutorial on Path declaration, how to use the PathExtrude and the PathAnimator. In the coming weeks more tutorials will be added to show how to combine them together, to generate content like in the RailAway demo.
Comment by Fabrice Closier
— October 25, 2008 @ 6:58 am
Thanks for your response and look forward to seeing more tutorials.
Comment by yansong
— October 29, 2008 @ 1:43 am
very nice
Comment by slopester
— October 29, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Simply amazing! good job away3d team!
Comment by Sean — October 31, 2008 @ 7:45 am
this is a great demo, but couldn’t find the source files under “examples” directory. Where can I find the src files please?
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— January 13, 2009 @ 1:25 pm
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it’s good, but i think not good than openGL
Comment by good
— September 11, 2009 @ 7:23 am