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Next week I’ll be landing in Sydney to give a presentation and a workshop session all about web 3d. The workshop on the 11th will be focussing on how the Flash player can be…
This update of the Away3d engine has one overriding purpose – to make things easier to use! The updated livedocs section of the site has been completed for all classes, with a new version available in…
The 3rd Adobe sponsored London Poker Tournament is now open for registration at www.pokercoder.com. For those who haven’t been before, it’s a fantastic FREE event with beer, chips and prizes all…
…now with source code! right click on the flash movie or go direct to the source here. Obviously i can’t include the track with the download, but this is a good chance to experiment…
With Away3d 2.0, some interesting effects are now possible using a combination of tiled textures, ownCanvas objects and blendModes. Salt flats Ferrari demonstrates that you don’t necessarily have to raytrace a scene in…
…back by popular demand! The third session is booked for 28th-29th May and will be a good introduction to anyone wanting to create 3d in Flash. Covers Papervision and Away3d engines, including the new features…
There have been a few questions recently on both the Away3d and Papervision mailing lists about projecting textures, so i figured a demo was in order to help the explanation along, plus give me an…
The update is here! There has been a lot of activity around engine development, with my recent training class attendees getting a special pre-release 1.9.5 version that after further tweaking has now been…
Here’s a little teaser for the upcoming release of Away3d 1.9.5 – something I’ve spent too long tweaking and need to upload so that i can get on with some proper work!…
Next week I’ll be presenting the first of my 3d training sessions in London. The course is for two days and has already been filled, but for anyone who missed the original announcement on…
Some interesting Snippets of information from Richard Galvin here – analysing some of the past enhancements that Flash CS3 gave us, and looking forward to reveal some of the features being worked on for CS4. Added…
Lee Brimlow stepped in to cover for Mike Downey on this one, who mysteriously had a prior engagement in Milan. I get that sometimes…. Essentially Lee’s notes of his earlier pres will do just…
Andre Michelle could be credited with have The Best Job In Flash currently. His presentation was about how a simple hack in the Flash Player leads to hours of fun with oscillators, resonance filters, vocoders…
Hydra is the codename for the Adobe prerelease of the AIF Toolkit. In a nutshell, it’s a language-based image manipulation tool, the output of which can be used in After Effects and future versions…
This presentation came with the opening caveat “Red5 is not just for flash video!” But possibly more importantly, Red5 is not just an open source version of FMS. While it’s true that it offers…