Sandy 3D engine Blog » Contributions http://www.flashsandy.org/blog The Adobe Flash 3D API Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bringing Physics to Sandy http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/bringing-physics-to-sandy.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/bringing-physics-to-sandy.html#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 20:48:41 +0000 Petit http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/?p=188 Falling Debris

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

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/bringing-physics-to-sandy.html/feed 2 AS3Dmod, a modifier library for all Flash 3d engines http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/as3dmod-a-modifier-library-for-all-flash-3d-engines.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/as3dmod-a-modifier-library-for-all-flash-3d-engines.html#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:52:35 +0000 kiroukou http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/?p=125 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 ;)

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/as3dmod-a-modifier-library-for-all-flash-3d-engines.html/feed 2 Flash Help book creator released! http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/flash-help-book-creator-released.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/flash-help-book-creator-released.html#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:47:14 +0000 kiroukou http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/?p=122 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

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/flash-help-book-creator-released.html/feed 0 ExtraLight package for Sandy3D is out! http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/extralight-package-for-sandy3d-is-out.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/extralight-package-for-sandy3d-is-out.html#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:45:02 +0000 kiroukou http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/extralight-package-for-sandy3d-is-out.html 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 :)

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Fog Demo

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.

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/mediumattributes-filling-the-void.html/feed 3 DistortImage in AS3 http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/distortimage-in-as3.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/distortimage-in-as3.html#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:26:45 +0000 kiroukou /blog/distortimage-in-as3.html 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

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/distortimage-in-as3.html/feed 1 New Sandy’s tutorials from Petitpub.com http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/new-sandys-tutorials-from-petitpubcom.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/new-sandys-tutorials-from-petitpubcom.html#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:44:22 +0000 kiroukou /blog/new-sandys-tutorials-from-petitpubcom.html 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.

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/new-sandys-tutorials-from-petitpubcom.html/feed 1 Need a little contribution http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/need-a-little-contribution.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/need-a-little-contribution.html#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 13:29:07 +0000 kiroukou http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/need-a-little-contribution.html Hi all,
I continue to develop Sandy, and to test a new feature I need a special MovieClip. This movie must have 360 frames (coming from 360 degrees), and should be a 3D object in rotation around the vertical axis (so one frame per degree).
My idea is to make a nice object modelisation with 3DS (and a rotation animation), and then to export it in a 360 keyframes swf.

I don’t know 3DS, and I’m the worst graphic designer ever :/
So if one of you have a little free time to spend on this .fla or .swf creation it would be great.

To summarize it can be anything (textured object or not) in rotation around its vertical axis, exported in 360 frames (again 1 degree of rotation per frame). No size limit. No complexity shape limit.

This animation will be used in the future Sandy demos, and the author will have his name print on the screen (or a link or anything he wants).
Thanks
Thomas

]]> http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/need-a-little-contribution.html/feed 8 DistortImage V2, I need your help! http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/distortimage-v2-i-need-your-help.html http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/distortimage-v2-i-need-your-help.html#comments Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:36:31 +0000 kiroukou http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/distortimage-v2-i-need-your-help.html Hi,

I wanted to update (and rename!) my DistordImage class,  which has been very popular :) , for a long time and yesterday night I had what I hope to be a great idea to make it much more faster.

Unfortunately I don’t have time currently to test it as I want (nor to continue Sandy btw), so I decided to share my actual code/idea and ask to the community to help me to finish it :) As it is free and opensource, and that a lot of talented people are interessted in this class, we should have an efficent DistortImage class soon :)

I’ve written a topic in Sandy’s forum with my details and source. You can see it here : http://sandy.media-box.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=5168

I hope you will play the game if you have some free time.
Good work everybody :)

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