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.

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’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

I am pleased to announce the new SANDY, version 1.0beta! [1]

SANDY is now released under the Mozilla Public Licence [2].

SANDY’s WIKI:
http://www.flashsandy.org/changes

SANDY’s FORUM:
http://www.flashsandy.org/forum

SANDY’s DEMOS:
http://www.flashsandy.org/demos

I really hope you will enjoy this release, and give it a try.
For the people who are waiting an AS3 version, I’m now ready to port Sandy in the next few months

Have fun
Thomas PFEIFFER / Kiroukou

[1] Expect the final version to be released very soon when a few functionalities and the documentation will be completed. This new version is not completely compatible with the 0.2, but the API changes are smalls, so the port should be easy to do.

[2] From now you are allowed to use freely Sandy in your commercial projects. This decision was a bit hard to take, but I know that most of you people are honest, and if you are using it in a commercial project, you will make a contribution via the paypal account I’ll set up very soon

To celebrate the new release of Sandy, I switched the old blog to the latest Wordpress system.

Furthermore we have now a specific board to give you a real and efficient support

So now you have a real Resources page, hopefully visible this time, and a support place. Everything to play with Sandy in good conditions

I would like to do a special note about Alan Shaw for his help during the tests. Thanks a lot Alan for your support and your time

But let’s talk about the new relase now

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