I don’t know how I missed it, but a new demo from the Alternativa Platform team was posted a couple days ago. In case you missed it too, here is the link: http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/2008/05/16/alternativa-3d-flash-player-10-astro/
It looks very nice! and the speed improvements show nicely!
So here is the promised meatier content!
I’ve been playing with 3d lately. Now there are plenty of 3d engine/api implementations out there like papervision3d, alternativaplatform and sandy3d just to name the recently more popular. However, these engines are truly full featured engines with real 3d positions, calculations and what not. This make them a bit slow and sluggish on older systems and there isn’t much you can do when it comes to fast game action play (event on more current system). Now that flash10 is fast approaching with some nice texturing support, it will ease the job of these engines to make them faster. But for now, I thought about the good old days of Doom and Duke Nukem, and was wondering why no one has tried anything like it on flash.
So, I did some experiments, and have a short demo of what I’ve been working on. Now it’s not much competition to the other engines, but I thought it could actually be faster at this type of stuff, since it does no true 3D calculations other than screen projection. It currently has no textures, but that is coming soon. It is basically a portal engine, with convex sectors. I did it this way because it could be nice for level streaming. Any ways, check it out and let me know how it runs on your system (if any one is reading this).
Lee Brimelow an Adobe Evangelist has posted some really awesome how to’s on the now beta Flash10.
Follow this link to check them out: http://theflashblog.com/?p=384
Interesting developments on the new Flash Player Version 10 have bubbled up. No need to repost the info again since you can read it at the draw.logic Blog http://drawlogic.com/2008/05/17/amazing-new-feature-for-flash-10/
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Hi, Nice to meet you!
This is my first blog entry to what I hope will be a nice and log series of posts. I am setting up this blog to share(and discover) programing ideas and code. I am by all definitions the epidemy of geek; therefore, I will not(and could not even if I wanted to) hide the fact that I love coding and programing in general. This blog entry is mainly just to fill in space to get used to doing this, but I promise to whoever is reading this(if any one) that the next several posts will be much meatier and delicious in coding content.
