Swift3D can export to Papervision3D Version 2, giving you the DAE
file, images and a sample control script in AS3.
You can access and control any name part of the model using AS3 and do
what you want with it.
Swift3D is simple to use and cheap. It may be all you need, since your
needs are not complicated,
Other 3D software, such as 3DSMAX, will give better control during the
build process but they are more difficult to use.
If you only need a simple model try Swift3D, is is excellent.
In the end the final visual quality will depend upon the engine.
An outbreak 'away' from Papervision3D took people to Away3D.
I am hoping that the Papervision3D team will eventually come up with a
new version.
They do have an amazing skills in their team.
I don't know the costs involved in using Unity, but since their is a
cost there will be continued development - though the price may rise
(too high?) with success.
John
On 16/08/2010 23:01, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
I believe it will let you, in swift, create an interactive animation
utilizing the vectors
of your polys and integrate AS code to control it, but it is output to
a swf file like Jason was saying.
It has been a while, but I saw a example that had a wire frame with
graphics on it that was rotatable by the user and was linked to popups
that had info in them.
Meaning you could probably, for your project, pull off the 360
rotation plus link to descriptors, etc, etc.
The example I saw was from Swift 3, but Swift 4 is promising IMO. Take
a look...
http://www.erain.com/products/swift3d/examples/
But as a side note, I also think Unity 3D and Away 3D would be a good
choice as well for the whole "photo realism".
Just depends on what env you want to work with.
Best,
Karl
On Aug 16, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
Swift was built to integrate to flash and
Regarding that, depending on what kind of rotation you require, Swift3D
might work. But know a few things about that:
1) Swift 3D, as one of the export options, exports to Papervision3D, so
it will look as good as things rendered with Papervision3D look. Which
is pretty good, but it may not be good enough for you if you are going
for photo realism.
2) Swift 3D also exports sequences and .swf animations. This is cool,
and you could tweak rendering settings to get the optimal look, but you
will be confined to rotate the product one way (for example, export an
animation of the product rotating 360 on a single axis) but would not
allow for "dynamic user controlled rotation" if you get what I mean - at
least along a single axis. Actionscript could be used to control how
far around the object is rotated based on mouse position or whatever.
3) If you really want photo realism, render the entire sequence as a
movie, .swf or bitmap sequence in the original 3D renderer app (like
Renderman, Maya, SoftImage, Lightwave, Blender, or StudioMax or
whatever) and bring that into flash. This will have the same
interactive limitations as #2 above, but could potentially look better
than Swift3D.
4) some 3D apps like Maya have Flash animation export, (it uses Swift
3D's renderer) so that might also be an option (though same interactive
limitations again as #2)
Jason Merrill
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Hi,
I guess I'll chime in one more time and say Swift 3D is a very powerful
tool for flash 3d.
Swift was built to integrate to flash and it also will let you import
your 3DSMAX files (and many other formats including Papervision3D
support) into it.
But I believe, but don't quote me, that swift has a poly reduction
filter so you can bring in your 3DSMAX file in and if it has too many
polys, it will help you reduce them.
Kind of like illustrators simplify path filter. Again, Swift was built
so you could create 3D FOR Flash.
I have seed some amazing 3D work from swift.
Haven't heard too many talk about it though, but it caught my eye.
Might be worth a look-see.
http://www.erain.com/
Best,
Karl
On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
As for papervision, this
http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/2009/09/28/goodbye-papervision/
sounds like away3d is the one to keep.
Possibly, given the Papervision3D team has changed and lately doesn't
seem to be doing much development, but that post, from almost a full
year ago, was just about one of the core team members leaving.
Papervision3D as a library is still in wide use. Even if
Papervision3D doesn't ever go to the next version, I wouldn't
completely throw it out of consideration. I'd google some stuff on
"Papversion3D vs. Away3D"
and do some feature comparisions.
Jason Merrill
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Bank of America Global Learning
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