http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog Rob Bateman :: Flash Development & 3D Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:38:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year's Flashforward conference is set to be an exciting one due to the fact that it's the first after Beau Ambur and Metaliq took over organising duties. I'm pleased to say that i will not only be attending, but presenting a session on Away3d! Flashforward is the longest running ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/flashforward2008-making-a-welcome-return I finally got sick of grey the other day, and vowed to update my blog theme before it started to affect me mentally. Having an unfashionable love of fractal art, I thought this theme was perfect (if a little brooding), and quite apt given that fractals are prone to infinite ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/new-theme The presentation notes from my recent WebDU session "The 3rd Way - Handling 3d on the Web" can be found here You can also find a very nice synopsis of the session on Flashmagazine.com - thanx a lot Jens! Here are a few useful links that were included in the talk in ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/webdu-2008-session-files-links This started out as a demo for the depth-of-field sprite object, but quickly metamorphosed into something involving blendmodes, bitmap sessions, marbles... With the tiled atoms in the background, strictly speaking the dof shouldn't be apparent at all, but i do suffer from tweak obsession, so probably best to leave it. I ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/away3d-marble-atom Here Mike Downey presented a ton of new web possibilities using the Adobe AIR runtime - hence the keynote strapline: "The long arm of the web". Sounds like a mix between a Tim O'Reilly soundbite and a totallitarian government mantra... Happily the content was less opressive and more inspired than the ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/webdu-2008-adobe-keynote Next week I'll be landing in Sydney to give a presentation and a workshop session all about web 3d. The workshop on the 11th will be focussing on how the Flash player can be used as a 3d engine using Papervision and Away3d, while the session on the 13th takes ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/webdu-3d-flash-comes-to-oz This update of the Away3d engine has one overriding purpose - to make things easier to use! The updated livedocs section of the site has been completed for all classes, with a new version available in the trunk of the svn repository, accompanying the source. There is also a new folder ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/away3d-version-210-demos-docs-released The 3rd Adobe sponsored London Poker Tournament is now open for registration at www.pokercoder.com. For those who haven't been before, it's a fantastic FREE event with beer, chips and prizes all provided. Dealers at your table will be giving everyone 20 minutes of training if you've never played before, although ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/the-3rd-adobe-london-poker-tournament ...now with source code! right click on the flash movie or go direct to the source here. Obviously i can't include the track with the download, but this is a good chance to experiment with your own music running through the demo - might look completely different! The supplied source uses the ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/away3d-supernova-visualiser-update With Away3d 2.0, some interesting effects are now possible using a combination of tiled textures, ownCanvas objects and blendModes. Salt flats Ferrari demonstrates that you don't necessarily have to raytrace a scene in order to get that reflective polished look, just use some texture mirroring trickery and a multiply blend ... http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk/blog/away3d-salt-flats-ferrari