It is always nice to see new uses for Sandy. The firm web3dmodels has created a simple 3D viewer for presenting products or maybe dinosaurs ?

We are proud and pleased to see that Sandy in a way was granted the FWA Site of the Day Award March 25 2009.

Gabriel Laet at the multilingual Brazilian media firm Gringo developed the vivapositivamente site for Coke, and to the joy of the hard working developers of the Sandy3D team, they used Sandy to drive this fine and elaborate site.

If you know a bit of Spanish or Portuguese you’ll understand the text. Otherwise, enjoy the artistic work!

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.

Basically it adds an help book, syntax highlighting, and code hints to the Flash IDE for any existing library ( successfully tested libraries: Sandy, Away3D, Papervision, and Box2D)

This is an excellent tool that Dan release for Sandy for months now, and which helped quite a lot of developers to get the Sandy documentation directly in Flash, as the normal flash help (shortcut to go in correct documentation part is working too).

See this announcement of Sandy Forum to have full information and give feedbacks.

Go now, and use FlashHelpBook script to improve your workflow in Flash IDE developments !

Thanks Dan

So no open source in there, but it might be interessting to check that new library and test its wonderful exclusive features such as:

- BSP tree, which allows to resolve depth sorting keeping a vector approach, so good resolution and performance.

- Embeded collision system

- Frustum clipping (or viewport one?) which is a feature that Sandy has too and which is extremly important while doing correct 3D immersion.

From the small examples I’ve seen so far, the API is good, similar in some points to Sandy3D one.

Now, up to you to test it more, and make some extra demos to  check its performance capabilites.

Alien Slayer 3D :: Full 3D FPS Game

One of the first complete real 3D FPS game, realized by QiGames studio. The result is fairly good, and shows a good future for flash 3D games.

Telenor Body Language

Cool 3D model with IK manipulation. Nicely done!

The LownDown, government new zealand website

Interactive 3D navigation for that complex website.

City of Light

Beautiful use of Sprite2D Sandy feature.

More demos in our Forum

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.

I could not find any pricing info on FreeSpin site, but their examples and documentation sections reveal nothing that could not already be done with existing free engines. It will suffice to say that their claimed “correct representation of the vast majority (if not all) of 3D models and scenes… without disappearing polygons and/or flawed sorting” fails to work even in their simplest example.

Come to think about it, all of this hype just two weeks after another, much more impressive, commercial engine goes open source. To conclude, these guys have a long way to go before they start making serious money with it.

Well, Away3D has really gone far away from PV3D now. As Rob wrote before, they “no longer measure success with a Papervision yardstick”.

Congrats to Away team!

I hope you’ll find it useful.

P.S.: meanwhile, we have done some work to speed up smooth lighting in coming 3.0.3, so keep an eye on release annoncements ;)