We are very pleased to announce the first official AS3 version of Sandy engine.
Even in a RC0 status, the version is fairly stable and its power/flexibility has reached a new level.

Go to the download page and grab it.

Here a list of main features:
- Simple and more powerful API
- Frustum culling and Frustum clipping
- compatible with majority of tween libraries (Tweener, etc. )
- real scene graph representation, with a fully integration of the camera as an element of this scene tree.
- flexible objects mapping. Each material has some attributes that allow it display more information (edges, outine, light)
- Parsers able to load more that 1 single object. (ASE, 3DS-basic-, COLLADA formats)
- possibility to choose the depth sorting between Object and Polygon level.
- built-in bubbling event system
- Sprite2D and Sprite3D (understand oriented sprite) integration.

More features to come (as cooler materials), but for now, have fun with the AMV2 power and what we hope to be a really good 3D engine. Really looking forward to see what you guys can do with it!

To have an idea of the capabilities, give a look at the demos page.

Have lot of fun, and yeah, thanks Adobe for that amazing new player.

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!

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

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.

I’ve done a topic on the forum explaining how I see the future of the project, and how you can be part of it.
If you are interessted just go here

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.

I’m proud to announce a new release of Sandy. Sandy is now at version 1.1,which is quite stable and complete.

And to celebrate this new release, a fantastic demo by jérôme Birembaut aka Séraf is available

(click on the picture)

It uses the latest features of Sandy 1.1 and requires Flash player 8.
I would like to mention the Sandy’s forum RSS which allows you to keep informed about new posts and Sandy development. Like a mailing list, this feature makes the information come to you!

Download it now