http://away3d.com Realtime 3D Engine for Flash in Actionscript 3 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:28:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new training program has been setup by the LFPUG for people wanting to learn the best techniques for creating 3d flash content. Suitable for developers or designers with basic knowledge of AS3, this comprehensive two-day course covers many practical aspects of building 3d content for both Flash 9 and ... http://away3d.com/training-for-3d-in-flash-novice-to-intermediate Sometimes coming from only one side of a problem restricts your view on the best way to evolve. In recent experiments with the latest Flash10 player, we have been testing how starting from a native cs4 approach fares when constructing a 3d framework, and have discovered a few interesting facts ... http://away3d.com/flash-10-speed-tests Recent site launches around the globe show Away3D is fast becoming the online 3D framework of choice for major international company content. Here are the highlights of what has been an inspiring first quarter of 2009. Project dragonfly is an experimental Autodesk tool for designing room interiors. The name on the ... http://away3d.com/away3d-industry-standard The Flash10 branch has recently received the first of it's optimising updates that deals with some of the problems shading presented to us in the past. Flash 9 is restricted by blendmodes and layers that mean a huge overhead on extra drawing operations and filters to create shading effects. With ... http://away3d.com/away3d-33-flash-10-version-update Away3D has always been about practical features and easy implementation. The 2.3 release takes this to new levels, adding variations on this theme in nearly all areas of the engine, from core functionality to workflow tools to geometry generators to shading tools, as well as now offering two fully supported ... http://away3d.com/away3d-23-feature-overload The Green Planet Demo has made it to Adobe's Flash Player Showcase! Away3D is the only open source 3D engine present, which is a great honor for us. Go there to see the other amazing things made with Flash and check out the Green Planet Demo if you haven't already! http://away3d.com/away3d-on-adobecom In 2008, "3D" was the new buzzword for Flash. We saw an increased use of Away3D as an engine for 3D flash games, as well as the use of Away3D for 3D graphics in applications. Huge improvements and additions were made to our API, and the size of the Away3D ... http://away3d.com/away3d-amazing-games-websites-and-applications Inspired by the fantastic new Audi VDT site produced by ArtificialDuck using Away3d, I decided to go on a little exploratory tour of the current Away3d codebase to see what could be done about fast(er) rendered 3d particles. My results use a new set of classes soon to be uploaded to ... http://away3d.com/merry-christmas-2008 The Away3D Team is happy to announce a powerful new feature: vector shape primitives. It allows the engine to represent complex vector graphics in 3D as a series of transformed linear and bezier instructions. The most immediate appliance of this is, of course, 100% sharp text despite the scale. Usage is ... http://away3d.com/3d-vector-text ***Update*** Unfortunately due to a schedule clash, the training classes have been moved to the 26th and 27th of November. For those of you already signed up, please send another mail to confirm a place at the revised time. Apologies to those who had already made plans, the above date is ... http://away3d.com/training-sessions-in-london