We have seen physics in Sandy 3D before, using the WOW physics engine. We also saw some examples of using the jiglibflash engine by muzer. You may not know, that we also have adapter classes ( jiglibflash plugins) for knitting together the brilliant visuals of a Sandy 3D world together with the physics aware  objects of jiglib.

This simplifies things a lot, as it helps us create these twin objects – a Shape3D and a RigidBody and add them to the Sandy scene as well as the jiglib physics engine.  The engine is an amazing piece of code, capable of creating belivable as well as unbelievable motion. The library is under development, as one might expect, and has so far not much of a documentation.

It has gravity, body mass, collision handling and ways to apply spring constraints between bodies.  For a game developer this is gefundenes fressen.

I’ve started to write a tutorial on how to use the jiglibflash physics engine withe Sandy.  Go there and get some introductory advice, and start experimenting.
/Petit

Bartek Drozdz released today an early version of his AS3DMod library.

This library will allow Sandy3D user to apply some modifiers to 3D objects geometry.

What are Modifiers?

let’s quote Bartek

Modifiers are basically functions that can be applied to a 3d object to transform it in a certain way. They can be used separately, but when combined they become a very powerful tool. In this, they are much like filters in Photoshop.

Right now that library, which should be fully documented in the coming weeks, offers:

• a framework for creating static and animated modifier stacks

• 3 basic modifiers: Noise, Bend and Perlin

Check this project at google code and play with it until some other cool Sandy3D news be available

We are pleased to accounce that Dan Allen, one member of the Sandy team, decided to release his excellent script FlashHelpBook to generate flash help book for your libraries.

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

I’m very happy to announce the release of Extralight package from Cedric Jules for Sandy.

ExtraLight offers a texture based lightening, which is by definition a bit heavier in file size but also much more CPU friendly.  Get all the information from its dedicated webpage clicking on the banner above.

Cedric offers a new demo to celebrate this release, very impressive as always!

Good job Cedric

The space around your objects is no longer empty thanks to new attributes class, MediumAttributes. You can already use it to create wide range of optical effects, such as fog:

All you have to do is to add the attribute to your objects with few lines of code – click on the link above to see simple demo (with source). I really hope people will appreciate the potential of this little addition.

Hi all,
it’s been a while without giving any news, but a lot of work lately.

I often receive some questions about the AS3 port of my DistortImage class.
Several people already port it I guess, as Alex Ulhmann and Carles Sanz who sent me their work.

Alex has done a kind of refactoring, to optimize and clean my old code resulting in 3 classes instead of one, and Carles offers a simple port.

So I finally take time to make them available to everyone interessted

DistortImage AS3 by Alex

DistortImage AS3 by Carles Sanz

[UPDATE]
Ruben Swieringa blog entry with link to his version with demo

Have fun,
Thomas

Petit, a member of the forum, has written some very nice tutorials about Sandy.

They are available in english, and fit especially to beginners needs or people who want to discover the new Sandy 3D world since the main subjects are covered: Primitives objects, Cameras interaction, Transformations and the Interpolators !

You can find them in the tutorials page of the website, and at the following adress: http://www.petitpub.com/labs/media/flash/sandy/

I would like to thank you Petit for your nice work which is a very welcome contribution to the project.