We are pleased to announce the 3.0.1 official release!

From the previous release announcement the team worked a lot to bring new cool stuff and fix the few bugs users have found.

The complete list of changes is available here : http://www.flashsandy.org/changes_3_0_1

Go to the download page, and grab the very latest version: DOWNLOAD (backward compatible) 

Update note: Some errors were introduced in the first archive zip, we have fixed that. Sorry about that. Archives are updated.

But here are the major modifications:

• Addition of the GouraudAttribute to simulate a smooth light shading to your objects. Can be used, as all attributes, with any material.
• Addition of the material interactivity. From now if you set the new enableInteractivity property to true and if you use a MovieMaterial, you’ll be able to have a basic interaction with that material content. You can use any of your movieclips or flex components as material. Mind that this is still a work in progress.

New demos are coming but for now you can see an update of the gouraud demo and a small demo of material interaction in Xavier’s blog.

Petit and Max have worked a lot of tutorials and Sandy offers now more than 25 tutorials (with sources and examples) concerning the AS3 release. You have anything you need to start with Sandy 3.0 from now.

The team and the contributors list has grown during the last month.
I’m very pleased to see the community sharing experience and ideas. That’s the real beauty of open source projects!Please read this page : how to contribute to Sandy3D project, in case you are interessted in helping and wonder how to help. 

Happy 3D flash community

After a very nice 3 weeks testing period since the Release Candidate release, we are proud to announce the final release of Sandy 3.0 engine.

From the release candidate the engine has become even more robust, some cool features has been added and new demos, tutorials are available.

We also have seen some amazing experiments such as 3D physics here and here , multiplayer 3D with Red5 right here, and two people have become some great contributors.

Sandy is now offering a perfect toolkit for beginners, and a complete set of advanced tutorials and FAQ notes, for more advanced users.

Sandy project is becoming a more and more collaborative project.We have had many code contributions since the release candidate and a new project sections has been added to the website in addition to the resources page.

Do not hesitate to take part of it ! Sandy 3.0 API has been designed to be as flexible as possible, especially to simplify user contributions.

For example, the material attributes architecture allows to connect any kind of attributes (for example, dashed lines to replace wireframe, phong shading etc..) to the existing materials.

It is up to you to share them with the comunity after that!Sandy project has also a very active forum : 1218 posts and 190 topics has been written since the RC0.

About the new features :

1. Flat shading attributes for color and bitmap materials.
2. Introduction of perspective corrected mapping for BitmapMaterial (based on Away3d.com code).
3. New Skybox primitive
4. More freedom about clipping settings, you can now specify, no clipping, front plane clipping or full frustum clipping depending on your needs.
5. Scene viewport rectangular clipping.
6. And a lot of bug fixes and minor additions …

Now it is time to go to the Download page after visiting our new demos !

Happy 3D!

We finally re-opened a forum.
This time, we will be more careful concerning the backup! My grand father used to say, “you can do a mistake, but you just can’t do the same twice!”, and I’ll follow this rule

Another comment about.. comments on the blog.
Some of you have posted some kind comments, but haven’t seen them on the blog. All my appologies for that! Seems that spams (hackers and spammers why are you that stupid….) have blocked my comments managment on WordPress. I just can’t make them to display. (I enabled the moderation)

So thank you all, this will be solved very soon.

I’m sad, very sad, to announce that our IPB forum has been hacked, and the whole database destroyed…
Unfortunately, thiking that my host was doing to automatic backup, I haven’t done any myself for a very long time… and guess what, I was wrong, only the blog database was concerned by the backup.

The french company, MediaBox, is actually kindly hosting the website freely ( they are our first and only one sponsors ), told me that the forum database wasn’t concerned by the automatic backup…. just too bad.

So … we just have lost a huge amount of knowledge, all the help provided by Petit, Bruce, etc. is just lost, also your kind contributions.

I guess you can imagine how I am disapointed but … what else ?

Now it is maybe time to think how to provide support for Sandy users : new forum, google group, mailing list … ?

Just let us know what is for you the best solution. For the moment, you can still join our dev mailing list.

Hopefuly, soon a new post with a better news!

An amazing 3D demo from the guy of Max at brokenfunction!
No away3D, no Papervision and no Sandy here

Just take a look and see what is the future of 3D in flash games:
http://blog.brokenfunction.com/2007/07/20/flash-plays-doom/

Impressive !

Hi all,
We are pleased to finally announce a new beta.
After a long silence and some hard work (not only for this beta), we come back with some good news

Remember that we are still looking for some help : developpers, 3D designer (modelisation), etc. so if you are interessted joining our team, feel free to contact us.

Download it here :
Download AS2 BETA 2

Do not forget to register to the mailing list and discuss about the library.

We have created mailinglist for all users, which want to build products, examples, games or applications with Sandy. It is faster possibility to get help from other Sandy users. We hope it will be good option for all of you.

Please subscribe to our mailinglist at http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/sandy_osflash.org