Go get it !

The version is 3.1.1 and sports the same functionality as the AS3 version.

Now you can program and compile your 3D worlds in haXe, which is fast and easy. Your code compiles to a SWF, that you play in the Flash player.  Later on you may present your applications on other platforms as well.

Download haXe from their site and  Sandy from the Sandy download page. It comes with full API documentation and lots of examples. Make sure to select the haXe version.

To read a little bit more on how and why you should use the haXe version, go to our short page on the haXe port

If you haven’t worked with the haXe language before, you’ll certainly visit the haXe friendly home site to learn about the language and the goals of haXe.

Welcome to the new 3D world!

The Sandy haXe team

The sandy development team is privileged to announce the Sandy haXe 3.1 release, which closely follows latest patches coming from the official AS3 tree. This officially marks the end of the beta phase for the haXe branch, and a new road for the future development of Sandy. Established members of the haXe community and die-hard AS3 gurus have both contributed to make this release possible, with the common aim to help both communities: both in achieving a competitive performance, and providing the best available gaming ecosystem for the web.

Beyond all the packed features in the AS3 trunk version, the latest haXe subversion tree also sports

- an MD3 parser: quickly import a wealth of freely available QuakeIII models onto the web; robust keyframing support; painless import from open source modelling tools like Blender.

- an experimental javascript target, by piggy-backing on the Canvas-NME and Neash libraries (for browsers which support the HTML5 canvas element)

Backward compatibility with AS3 code will be achieved through the new SWC support advertised by the latest haXe release. SWC can be integrated into most Flash IDE’s and the flex compiler without needing any haXe code.

Get the download

Track the upstream edge development branch

Sandy-hx has some opportunities for budding programmers wanting to contribute. Please take a look at the sandy-hx roadmap, and join the mailing list! ]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/sandy-haxe-31-release.html/feed 1 http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/sandy-as3-311-release.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/sandy-as3-311-release.html#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:09:26 +0000 kiroukou http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/?p=164 We are happy to announce a new version of our engine, tagged as a 3.1.1 since this release comes with some improvemens and bugfixes withotu any API change. [Edit] A 3.1.2 release in sync with the 3.1.2 haXe version is now available under download.

We are really recommanding to make the upgrade, since there’s a better memory management with the addition of a smart reference counting system. Basically this system allows material ressources to be disposed automatically as soon as no polygon reference it. You don’t have to care about that manually, Sandy does it for you. If you need to keep the material alive for some reasons, just set the property of the material autoDispose to false.

We also added more examples to help users to get started with the library. In this examples you can learn the best practises and rapidly give a try to the feature you need while preparing a project.

Here is the change log: (Access complete changes list)

What is jiglib, basically a 3D rigid bodies engine, so different from what Wow offered to us until now.

Here is a fast port of their official demo to Sandy 3.1, use keyboard directionnals keys to move, and space button to apply vertical force.

After the successful Alien SLayer 3D FPS game, Sandy3D is proud to be the engine chosen for this incredible flash 3D game.

After some long months of development, Robert Kabwe offer us this incredible flash game, approaching quality of our old good playstation games.

Good use of 3D in flash games is pretty rare, and most of people still consider it as a waste of time, but I’m guessing Andagel will change their mind

Here is the brief story of Andagel:

Centuries a go this planet was the target of a terraforming alien species. Their terraforming project was abandoned but not before leaving an outpost on the planet’s surface to collect and harness energy.

This outpost grew into the thriving Megatropolis of Junx City, and it is on the outskirts of this city that the story of Andagel takes place.

It is very rare to play some good and well finished flash games, especially when there’s a use of 3D in it. But hopefully there’s some, and Andagel is one of them, definitely! A good story board, great textures, interessting gameplay and good sound design, that is what I call a real game

Hope you’ll like it as much as we do !

So, what are we going to do about that? Well, the plan is still to get that 3.0.3 done, step by step, as soon as possible, and see where do we go from there (most of you already know that there are two ongoing efforts that take Sandy in different directions, haXe and AS2 ports).

Back to the purpose of this post, our devoted users, I would like to hear your thoughts on subject. If you use Sandy, let us know what future would you want for it.

Thanks.

So, when 3.0.3 will be out? Well, you might know that Thomas is currently on vacation and will not work on release for next two weeks, at least. Then, you also might know about some breaking changes he introduced for better performance, but currently performance seems to be even worse, and so this situation needs some investigation. People who want latest version compatible with 3.0.2 can use revision 663, but be aware that some bugs were fixed after that (not to mention pending bugs).

Still, things aren’t bad for 3.0.3, in my opinion. I make noise and contribute some new stuff (you might have noticed StarField or MD2, I guess). Other people in team keep quiet, but SVN commits notifications give them away If you suddenly notice some clever code or documentation improvements, you know they did it.

So, when 3.0.3 will be out, again? I think you can expect it in August as final version for v9 (unless someone suddenly finds lots of bugs a day after release).

To conclude this post, I’d like to take my chance and congratulate folks at Ginga who released online jets comparison application for Embraer company last week. A part of this great application – flight range flash widget – was designed using two open source libraries, APE and – you guessed it – Sandy.

Using globes for spatial data visualization is something we now see more and more; to address this trend, I just added new tutorial for Sandy users who would like to do something similar themselves. For other people, I plan to release some basic globe component for free, so keep an eye on this secret link.

• Back Face Culling
• Flat Shading
• Z-Sorting
• Space Drawing Functions (moveToSpace, lineToSpace, curveToSpace)
• Bitmap3D Class
• Video3D Class
• Sprite2D Class
• Letter Spacing for DynamicText3D
• Text Width for DynamicText3D

This is serious, I was finally able to make my cube test work:

What can I say, thanks a lot! I can only wish myself could do some coding too

The one on the left is recentry released Alternativa3D milestone tech demo. The one on the right is not so recently released Electric Oyster engine demo, but neverless I enjoy it too much to not include it in this post

That’s pretty much all I have to say, you don’t really need lengthy ramblings about them. Just click, sit back and enjoy the show.