Welcome to

SAN FLASHCISCO

SanFlashcisco.com

The Team:

Alex Bustin Manager Senior Engineer of Flash Dev. Sony Corporation of America http://thebackbutton.com

Patience Elfving Co-Manager Account Manager COMSYS IT

Donna Coxon-McCory Co-Manager Talent Manager, Filter Executive Producer at Flash Brigade

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SF Flash Conferences

FlashForward  August 20th-22nd
Early Bird Pricing (through July 6)

http://www.flashforwardconference.com/

Adobe MAX 2008  November 16th-19th

Early Bird Pricing (through August 31)

https://max.adobe.com/na/

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Proposals for next months meeting

(Thursday, July 17)

ActionScript Round Table

Please email your suggestions to

sanflashcisco@gmail.com

Schedule   (Does anyone have a spare time machine?)

6:30-6:50: Q & A with Adobe’s John Dowdell

6:50-7:20: Welcome & Announcements, 3D Introduction

7:20-7:50: 3D without an Engine – Trevor McCauley

7:50-8:30: Break

8:30-9:15: Papervision3d 2.0 – Lee Felarca

9:15-9:25: Prize Raffle

9:30 : The Chieftain Irish Pub

Introduction to 3D Engines

Please ask questions anytime

So .. what is an "Engine"?

So .. what is an "Engine"?

Well an engine is not ...

• a Flash plug-in or add-on
• practitioner of "Magic"

              So what is one?             

• Collection of regular ActionScript classes
• Fronted by a well defined API
• Designed to simplify complexity tasks
• Distributed as a SWC file or as source

Engine Tour

Papervision3D (PV3D)

Away3D

Sandy3D

Alternativa3D

Papervision3D

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

• Open Source
• Most famous/popular 3D Flash engine
• Load/Parse COLLADA files
• Website has "Getting Started" Links, Wiki Articles, forum/mailing-list and example projects.
• Subversion for latest classes (Google Code)
• Zip Download

      http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/

Away3D

http://away3d.org/

• Open Source
• Based on Papervision3d (branched)
• Load/Parse COLLADA/3DS Max/MD2/OBJ files
• Website has Tutorials, Example projects, Getting started ZIP, Google Group.
• Subversion for latest classes (Google Code)
• Zip Download

      http://away3d.com/downloads

Sandy3D

http://flashsandy3d.com/

• Open Source
• Load/Parse COLLADA/3DS Max/WRL files
• Boasts simple API to manage 3D elements
• Roadmap is to launch the 3.0.3 release in the coming weeks with animated models (MD2), better performance and faster shading effects.
• Website has Tutorials, Example projects, forum
• Subversion for latest classes (Google Code)
• Zip download link on website

Alternativa3D

http://alternativaplatform.com/en/

• New (Russian) kids on the block
• Boasts managed multi-player 3D world in the future via a server component and simple API.
• API similar to existing Flash 3D APIs (scene, camera, view).
• Best performing Flash 3D to date.
• SWC for non-commercial use,  licenses coming for commercial use.
• Documentation is new and starting to grow. Forum.

// Creating scene

http://docs.alternativaplatform.com/download/attachments/18645018/HelloAlternativa3D.swf?version=1undefined

scene = new Scene3D();
scene.root = new Object3D();
box = new Box(100, 100, 100, 3, 3, 3);
box.setMaterialToAllSurfaces(

                                                                                    new WireMaterial(1,0xFFFFFF));
scene.root.addChild(box);

// Adding camera and view
camera = new Camera3D();
camera.x = 100;
camera.y = -150;
camera.z = 100;
scene.root.addChild(camera);

view = new View();
addChild(view);
view.camera = camera;

view.width = stage.stageWidth;
view.height = stage.stageHeight;

// Create controller and connect camera
cameraController = new CameraController(stage);
cameraController.camera = camera;

// Set default control keys
cameraController.setDefaultBindings();

// Turn on camera collision detection
cameraController.checkCollisions = true;

// Set collision detection radius for camera
cameraController.collisionRadius = 20;

// Aim camera at the cube primitive
cameraController.lookAt(box.coords);

// Activate camera controls
cameraController.controlsEnabled = true;

Thank You

Next Up:  Trevor McCauley (aka. Senocular)

3D sans the Engine