Flash and real-time 3D
This is an excerpt from the Mitooshi blog (www.mitooshi.com/mitooshiland). I was recently talking to a friend who’s a search marketing specialist and I mentioned that to get our site up and running quickly, I was considering throwing something together in Flash. His response was, “if you do that, I’ll have to kill you”.Flash has been dividing opinion since I was learning about this new thing called Google back in ‘99. I once witnessed one of our Flash developers throwing a printer at a wall because of its so called “inconsistencies”.As you might imagine, something we’re particularly interested in is Flash for 3D. Until recently the only way to use Flash for 3D was to pre-render image sequences and use Flash to control them. This is often referred to as 2.5D because it looks like 3D but it’s actually 2D. Now that there are a few decent real-time 3D engines for Flash such as Papervision3d, FIVe3D, Away3D and Sandy, we can for the first time, create content in Flash that is truly 3D. [Please visit the Mitooshi blog (www.mitooshi.com/mitooshiland) for the full article including links.]