You shall have a fish-eye, on a little dish-eye
While experimenting for an Away Studios project, I recently came up against the thorny issue of wide-angled rendering with a high field of view (fov). In Away3D it is possible to set the fov property…
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Invawayders update, now with more Ash
Some of you may remember the bundled Away3D game that came with the first Adobe Gaming SDK download towards the end of last year. Called Invawayders (already regretting that title…), it demonstrated a simple Away3D…
Away3D multi-knight demo
The animation system in Away3D has had a fair amount of refactoring in recent times, and as yet, less examples actually demonstrating performance and features. The demo above is intended as a first step to…
Away3D with Flash 11.2 - (mouse) locking all over the world
One of the cool new features introduced in the recent Flash Player 11.2 release is the ability to lock the mouse when in fullscreen mode. What this allows is a sort of ‘infinite scroll’…
Away3D 4.0 drops the beta bomb
Well, what can i say? The impossible has happened and we have managed to actually get a beta build of Away3D 4.0 out the door. Hallelujah! For those of you who waited, our apologies…
Away3D 3.6.0 / 2.5.2 optimisations and the Influxis Battlecell API
Last week the latest Away3D release was launched – the FP10-only 3.6.0 version which added some much needed memory and speed optimisations to the main branch of the engine. Now, these updates have been…
Away3D Lite on the Nexus One
After a bit of experimenting with the beta of AIR for Android, I’ve managed to successfully create a couple of demos to show off Away3D Lite running on the Android operating system, using my…
Away3D: Christmas Greetings!
Happy holidays eveyone! Here’s to an exciting 2010.…
Fast sorting in AS3
U A blog article recently caught my eye over at http://www.simppa.fi on z-sorting that i simply couldn’t resist to pick up on. Simo is someone that has great claims to geek-worship…
Away3D Lite: 1000 animated 3D sprites
Get ready for Mariogeddon! Away3D Lite has seen two important additions in its 1.0.2 dot release: MovieMaterial and Sprite3D. The former is a direct port of the standard library counterpart – the latter a…
Away3D Lite: banishing the darkness
Two major releases in two months must mean only one thing… all clients are on holiday! Away3D Lite is the latest release to come out of Away-central, and is something a bit different. It is…
Away3d: 2.4 & 3.4 released!
The Away3d 2.4 & 3.4 update has been recently released on the Away3d.com site, with a completely revamped examples section, for both Flash 9 & Flash 10 versions. To grab your copy,…
Presentation notes: TFO3D in Flash
As the new release of Away3d approaches, it’s time to clear out the old and bring in the new! This year’s presentation starter has run it’s useful course, so it seems only…
Away3d & the FLARToolkit
Augmented Reality (the practice of superimposing rendered 3d on top of realtime tracked camera footage) has become an interesting presence on the web recently, with the good people at Saqoosha providing the conversion magic necessary…
Away3d 3.3: Flash 10 and fancy shading
Away3d’s flash10 branch has recently been updated to the 3.3 version – a parallel release that now runs alongside the 2.3 version for Flash 9. Initially a compatibility release, the flash10 branch is…