Posted by VitaminB | Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Flash 3D | Posted on 12-06-2008
Tags: ActionScript, Flash 3D, Sandy 3D
Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 and now Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash.
This 3D engine main features are :
Viewing volume clipping for perfect rendering.
Advanced shading effects such as (Phong, Gouraud, CelShading, flat shading).
Material system to easily change your objects appearance. Several material are available allowing to create transparent faces, bitmap texture and video texture as webcam video stream.
Advanced and easy object management allowing some fantastic possibilities during your creations (scaling, rotation, translation, tween, etc.)
Advanced camera management ( rotation, motion on linear or bezier-curve path, movements, etc.)
Complex object loading thanks to the .ASE and .WRL files parser , but also Collada and 3DS files for AS3, (files generated by several 3D object modeling packages such as 3D Studio Max or Blender)
Flash player 7 to 9 compatibility.
Both MTASC and Macromedia compilers compliant for AS2 and Flash CS3 and FlexBuilder for AS3 versions.
Several 3D primitives, allowing fast and parameterized object creation without any 3D modelisation knowledge.
Sandy 3D is really nice to use. Iv’e been playing with it for the last 2 months and find it a bit easier than PaperVision.
Another Project worth mentioning is Five3d.. Really nice..