http://away3d.com Realtime 3D Engine for Flash in Actionscript 3 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:39:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As more and more people discover the potential of 3d in Flash, the versatility of the Away3D framework is beginning to show. Agencies and individuals alike are using it as their engine of choice, and producing some very cool content as illustrated by the following selection of projects! Discovery Channel uses ... http://away3d.com/focus-on-away3d JSAway is a spin-off of Away3D which provides web developers access to the high performance graphics capabilities of the engine, through JavaScript. Currently based of V2.0, JSAway exposes implementations of the API and provides other supporting functionality to allow complex scenes to be created and animated providing full interaction between ... http://away3d.com/jsaway-3d-graphics-through-javascript Away3d 2.1 bring some welcome assistance to getting starting with the engine - a revamped documentation section (now included in the svn) and a brand new demos download containing code examples which will continue to be updated as more are written. As well as this, there are some updates to the ... http://away3d.com/away3d-21-demos-docs AWAY3D 2.0 IS HERE! Our new release may bring out the explorer in you, with features allowing a lot more expansive 3d possibilities. Here we present an atmospheric oddessey taking the reliable formula of a crash-landed spaceship and an alien world... Green Planet. Now you can realize your 3D world like never ... http://away3d.com/away3d-20-green-planet We’ve now completed the main part of the refactoring work on rendering pipeline for upcoming Away3d 1.9.5. Now user has possiblity to render either to a sprite (SpriteView3D) or select the BitmapView3D which renders to a Bitmap. This can then be used as a normal DisplayObject or you can request ... http://away3d.com/away3d-bitmap-rendering-w-post-processing-effects Away3D has recently seen a sudden increase in commercial use - now including areas such as Education, Gaming, and Online Applications. The following content shows a sample of what's currently being powered by the Away3d Engine. EffectiveUI launchs an application for the Discovery Channel called "Discovery Earth Live" which lets you ... http://away3d.com/away3d-games-infographics-and-online-applications If your looking for somewhere to relax (and I know we are!) after a hard day coding with Away3d, then why not try the latest online virtual-zen environment: The Away3d Temple The beautiful ambient music is composed by Atom(bang) This demo weights only 204 kb with fully code generated meshes, and combines ... http://away3d.com/away3d-temple-version-194-released The Away3d Team are pleased to announce a new partnership with the community-driven software company Strata, involving their 3d application software Live 3D and 3d[in] Photoshop plugin. Live 3D is a powerful 3d exporter for the web, which provides an intuative workflow for converting content made in standard desktop 3d modeling ... http://away3d.com/away3d-enters-into-partnership-with-strata Here are a few Websites that use Away3D as it gains power, speed, and popularity. Congratulations to everyone that made this possible. B-Reel launchs the new Flash/Away3D site for the EA Games title FIFA Street 3. ... http://away3d.com/new-away3d-sites Away3D version 1.9.3 is now available via the svn or downloads section of away3d.com. The above demo shows some of the new capabilites of the BitmapMaterialContainer class, along with a viewable source (right-click on the background of the swf) that can be used with the 1.9.3 codebase. The extrusion classes being ... http://away3d.com/away3d-version-193-released