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

Seems like yesterday was busy day for flash 3D world. Away3D has just released v2, that includes all the stuff they were carefully hiding from us since 2007 fall. Release comes with kick-ass alien planet demo:

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!

Two months after unofficial port, Mathieu Badimon finally took his time to make official release today, along with typography tools.

This is certainly one of most compact engines (and so is very easy to start working with), with some unique features, such as 3D vector drawing and text support. Now, rewritten in AS3, it is probably fast enough to handle very complex scenes, but also very limited dynamically because of fixed rendering order.

This release comes with promise of v2.1 in coming weeks, so let’s see what comes next.

Get Five3D 2.0 here.

Dennis Ippel, one of the Sandy3D developers, just released his Blender export script. for Sandy3D, but also Away3D and Papervision 1.7.

Check it here and let your comments there!

This Blender (free 3D modelisation tool) export script is a possibility to generate native 3D objects (no parsing required), as the Seraf AS3 geom exporter is doing with 3DS Max .

Good job Dennis!

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,

As I thought, the idea I told you about in my previous post has been implemented ! Thanks to Richard Lester and Didier Brun we were able to run my idea correctly.

But in the same time we found some nice optimizations that we can add to the original DistordImage class. And after acomplete benchmark, we can see that the two solutions performances are equivalent now. The new class runs between 2.5 3 times faster !

But a feature we wanted to take under consideration was to allow the user to distort a Video Stream as easily as possible.

You can see an example of myself distorted using my webcam stream

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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