Re: 3D objects

[Joe Crawford]

Paul wrote:


> We have played around with using adobe dimensions exporting a sequence of

> illustrator files with some success but the quality isn't that great. Check

> out this site and  see what you all think. 3D animations are pretty nice.

> How'd they do that?


Using a series of .ai files is overkill - lots of individual vector

objects chewing up memory. Better to use symbols made in Dimensions

and tweak them in Flash and get the benefits of the library, and

with Flash3: morphing.


One of the older instances of 3-D effects in Flash is this

<http://www.shell.co.uk/Flash/index.html> which I think holds up as

a very nice use of 3-D look and feel.  I'm partial to my ancient

Flash 2 piece

<http://home.earthlink.net/~artlung/flash_introduction_2.html> -

which were done with Illustrator in concert with KPT Vector Effects.


It seems to me that an easy solution to 3-D looking Flash stuff like

Matinee and or Gabo -- by simply esporting from Infini-D or 3DMax or

Rhino or whatever - is not to be coming very soon. I think Flash on

the web is better when it's slightly simpler.


I quite liked matinee, but when I viewed it on a colleagues P2/233,

It ran twice (:-0) as fast. I use a P166 here at work and most of

the examples crawled. I don't know about you all - but heavy duty

SPEED requirements for a website (not talking about

download/streaming; but rather CPU power to view animation, alpha

channels, etc) - are a hard sell to a client. They're wonderful

examples of Flash, but I'd hate to see widespread use of Flash in

this way. Flash is best at delivering streaming vector slim

animations and interactivity.


I'm off on a tangent now - and sense that I'm ranting - I will shut

up now  - If I became incoherent, please ignore me : )


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