Comments on: Basic 3D shading test

By: 3D Ribbon class for Flash Player 10 « Matt Eley | Labs

3D Ribbon class for Flash Player 10 « Matt Eley | Labs — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:57:20 +0000

[...] object, then you will probably need to write your own classes to do just that, much as this post by Neuro Productions [...]

By: 3D Pixel Fun | Neuro Productions

3D Pixel Fun | Neuro Productions — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:17:40 +0000

[...] a client asked me to do something which involved a lot of 3D cubes. I did some tests with cubes in the past and I knew the number of cubes you can render in Flash are relatively limited. Lets say [...]

By: promethe

promethe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:22:46 +0000

Nice experiment!

I’m working on a 3d API that handles the whole drawTriangles/z-sorting/shading mess.

You can see a few samples here: http://www.directflex.net

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:39:05 +0000

I think you can go pretty far with it. And I’m waiting for the new Papervision3D to see how the handle the new 3D features

There are a loot of problems with the drawTriangles method
to name a few:
-it doesn’t do z sorting
-it uses the same indices for the UV mapping and the vertices
-it can only mange one bitmap

These things are all problematic for rendering complex models. I would be really surprised if drawTriangles is used in Papervision X.

By: Niels

Niels — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:18:36 +0000

How far can you take this ? Is it just basic shapes and shading?
I believe papervision is rebuilding large parts of its code-base to make more use of the native 3d functions of Flash.

Now, this ‘drawTriangles’ thing is supposed to make 3d faster, what limitations made you abandong it?

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:57:24 +0000

Hi Niels,
It’s no papervision3D it’s just native AS3, but I must say I learned a lot from it over time. There are certainly some similarities.

By: Niels

Niels — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:38:00 +0000

Looks pretty amazing, is this based on papervision or something?