More cool papervision3d examples coming out almost daily like this one from Oscar Trelles and I finally had a minute to dig an URL out of my "blog this!" folder.. the folks over at Media Machines just released a new 3D authoring environment and player-plugin. I spent way too much time playing with VRML back in the day so when I read "Earlier versions of Flux Studio were known as Vizx3D and Spazz3d" I had a few flashbacks to animating scenes in Spazz3D. The plug-in is fairly small, and the demos on the site seem to work ok.
Media Machines will import sketchup, Google Earth, and Google 3D warehouse files. That could make for some cool stuff.
But.. compare the gallery of Media Machines examples with the demos on the Papervision3D site. The difference at this point is that Media Machines is based on years of experience in building scenes and interactivity. VRML includes a host of features for building games and allowing objects within a space to interact with one another. The "New" demo in the Media Machines gallery includes a quest for a sword, some boots you can put on and walk around in, etc.. well, and the other difference is the Papervision3D examples are just much nicer to look at.
Media Machines giving Papervision3D a run for it’s money (in boots) Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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28 Feb 2007 at 10:28 am | #
Yeah, but no-one has the plugin, so you'd struggle to find a client that would let you use it.
28 Feb 2007 at 01:21 pm | #
It's impressive that the Papervision folks are handling all the 3D calcs in scripting. Considering what they've accomplished so far, I think there's even more room to grow here.
But for an actual pixel-based, native-code, hardware-assisted general 3D rendering engine, look at the Adobe Shockwave plugin. It's already installed on the majority of consumer machines.
(The Shockwave 3D engine is related to the one in Adobe Acrobat, but the latter is optimized more for engineering precision and bills-of-material.)
jd/adobe
02 Mar 2007 at 03:39 pm | #
I finally had time enough to jump on the PaperVison beta. Very nice library with versions for AS2 and 3. I knew we'd eventually get to 3D in Flash, but I never expected it so soon! True, VRML and Shockwave have been around and are very mature, but this is Flash! Whoda thunk it? Flash 8 penetration is excellent, and Flash 9 is pretty good, so one is for the most part guaranteed that their demo will be seen. Sure you won't get the quality of Shockwave 3D, but you will get folks attention, in short order. And full screen even works! I see a slew of retro games on the horizon...