HI,

I have downloaded away3d 4 gold and practicing it on flashCS6, and sometime I get errors that I cant debug myself, plus on internet there are maximum nos. tutorials done with away3d 3.6 and very few with away 3d 4 gold. So, I thought that I should start with 3.6, if I do so is it a wastage of time?

And can I work solely with away3d classes without a single use of flash basic classes/libraries?

i wouldnt call it a waste of time, but 3.6 is very different to 4.

at the time of 3.6 there was no stage3d, and therefore no GPU rendering.

the way meshes are build and materials are applied has changed a lot, so you wil not learn much from 3.6 regarding that.

if you are new to 3d generally, looking at some of the 3.6 examples may bring you up to speed for gernerell 3d stuff, but better stick with the few examples and tuts for 4. than let you get confused by learning 2 different engines.

Thanks for the reply,
You mean to say I can take few ideas from 3.6 but I must stick to 4. I will be very grateful to you, if you can post a link for away 4 tutorials. A tutorial which contains a-z description of each class and their functionality, along with sample/example (if possible). Please don’t suggest reposity/githum documentation, they confused me.

hi

sorry, but i cant help you there very much.

all i ever use are these examples on git.
i walked trough some of the no-away3d tutorials for stage3d, that helped me understand whats going on.
you can find some of them here:
http://www.mcfunkypants.com/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/how-stage3d-works.html

also the as3 - documentation itself contains some usefull information.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display3D/Context3D.html

the best place to learn for me, are the away3d classes themself. try to understand how it works, so i know how to use…

Thanks prozent,
I will follow your advice. and links