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18 Sep 2009

Away3D 3.4.2: Pixel Bender to the max!

by Rob Bateman Away3D 3.4.2: Pixel Bender to the max!

Away3D has got a shiny new suit thanks to Flash Player 10 and Pixel Bender, with a completely new set of material shaders and filters that offer more detail than ever before. Written by recent new recruit and pixel-maestro David Lenaerts, the shaders offer a vast array of new options…

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11 Sep 2009

Away3D Lite v1.0: fastest and smallest 3d engine in Flash.

by Rob Bateman Away3D Lite v1.0: fastest and smallest 3d engine in Flash.

Filesize and framerate are generally two of the biggest concerns when using a 3d framework in Flash. Many a mail, comment and blog has written the relative merits of one engine over another in these terms. Everyone wants more for less, faster for smaller, better for cheaper. In fact, we…

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06 Sep 2009

Warping 3D Text

by Alejandro Santander Warping 3D Text

Now that Away3D supports the creation of 3d vector text fields, aligning and animating text fields along 3D curves has been one of the big todos on our list. You can now experiment with our first attempts on a solution for achieving this, using latest sources from the 3.4.1 FP10…

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07 Aug 2009

Away3d: 2.4 & 3.4 released!

by Rob Bateman

The Away3d 2.4 & 3.4 update has been released, with a completely revamped examples section, for both Flash 9 (2.4) & Flash 10 (3.4) versions. To grab your copy, head over to the svn or go straight to the downloads section for a zip of sources and examples. many new…

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08 Jul 2009

Away3D: FWA Winners and More!

by Peter Kapelyan

As more developers embrace Away3D as their Flash 3D engine of choice, the amount of quality 3D content in Flash is on the increase! Several recent websites using the Away3D engine have won FWAs (Favorite Website Awards). With now over 1,000 members in our support group, make sure you are…

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