Re: Good 3D App to create images for Flash

[Mary Brzys]

I tried this, from Specular Infini-D DXF to Illustrator, and from

Strata DXF to Illustrator and what resulted was text. It had all the

names of the objects I created and lots of numbers. If someone knows a

different way, please tell me. - Mary Brzys


"---John Croteau <

croteauerols [dot] com

> wrote:

>

> Hi all, 

> 

> An animation displayed as a series of bitmaps is generally

> unsatisfactory for most Flash presentations since its viewable size

> needs to be kept quite small to allow a reasonable download and frame

> rate in Flash. Also, for best results Flash movies with bitmaps should

> be set at a fixed size and not scaled.

> 

> What we are looking for is not the best 3D creation program, but one

> that leads to easy vector import into Flash. Most all 3D programs have

> features and capabilities that are beyond anything needed for creation

> that is destined for Flash, most are made for use in TV, Film, Video

or

> for multimedia use as AVI or MOV movies . All 3D programs create in

> vector format, then vector and/or bitmap surfaces are added. What is

> important for our Flash use is a program that exports the image in a

> usable vector format (ai, eps, wmf, swf) instead of a bitmap format. 

> 

> The DXF format export (not save as) from 3D Max and other programs is

> kind of useless since it only exports a single view of a 3D object and

> not the 3D skeleton in perspective.

> For 3D Max a better solution would probably be export in EPS into

either

> Freehand, Illustrator or similar full function vector program. After

> importing into Freehand (or other program) as EPS, the vector portions

> can be exported to Flash as AI, swf or a Flash compatible version of

> EPS. If the surfaces are stored as bitmaps, they can be separated and

> imported into Flash as bitmaps where they can be realigned with the

> vector portion of the image. They can then be converted to vectors or

> left as bitmaps as needed. Flash 4 Wish, EPS import into Flash

retaining

> bitmap info.

> 

> Both Animation Master http://www.hash.com/ and Poser 3

> http://www.metacreations.com/ export in DXF, but if they export only a

> single side view and not a perspective view then this is worthless for

> our Flash needs.

> 

> Direct export to a game engine (Flash) is possible in 3D Studio Max

> There's no need to export to an intermediate format when you

> know exactly what your game engine needs.  3D Studio MAX

> R2's proven SDK development kit comes standard.   It gives

> you access to everything in memory. You can even extract

> private data created by custom 3D Studio MAX R2 plug-ins.

> With the 3D Studio MAX R2 SDK, there's no barrier between

> your game content and your game engine.

> Or in our case the Flash Format (instead of Game Engine).........

> Maybe MM or someone else will create a converter.

> 

> -----------                               -----------------------

>

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