PV3D's pretty good, tho there's a little bit of a curve to learning it. I haven't done any Away3D stuff but I've heard good reports about that too.You probably don't want to go down the custom road as once you start to deal with z-sorting and all that in earnest it balloons in complexity quickly. CS4's native 3D stuff is generally only good for planes, there's no native poly handling. I think the latest PV3D has been tweaked to take some advantage of the native FP10 3D stuff on the render side, but I didn't have that as an option on my last PV3D project and hence didn't explore it. As far as morphing shapes goes, you're probably going to have to do that in a dedicated 3D suite then export that animation to a Collada file. You can spin and move stuff (in PV3D), but actual manipulations of the shapes/polys in an object are going to be best handled in a more or less canned fashion, depending on the complexity you're looking for or if you want to write something that creates the polys dynamically, which is again easier in PV3D than "Pure" AS3.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Kerry Thompson <al...@cyberiantiger.biz>wrote: > Sebastian wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone had any feedback to my 3d inquiry? Because I > > have not received any input from the group. > > My guess is that not many of us work in 3D. I've had a look at Papervision, > and, while it looks pretty good, I haven't explored it deeply enough to > help. > > Does it have to be Flash? The dominant player in the online 3D world is > still Director/Shockwave, and what you are describing could be done easily > in Shockwave. If you're not familiar with Lingo, Director has an > implementation of JavaScript that is a lot closer to ActionScript. I don't > know how much of its 3D capabilities are available through JavaScript, but > it's worth a look. You can download a 30-day free trial. > > Another up-and-coming 3D program is Unity--they're making some serious > waves, and, from the reports I've heard, Unity is easier to work with than > Director. Its main drawback is that it doesn't have the plugin penetration > Shockwave has. > > HTH. > > Cordially, > > Kerry Thompson > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
