RE: 3D objects

[Carrie Dailey]

I agree that the Matinee site is really overkill.  Take the gunshot sounds

with every click of the mouse....sheesh.  But it IS beautiful and it is one

of the most creative examples of site design I've seen in a while.  Plus, we

have gotten this extremely enlightening discussion on techniques for

developing 3D effects with Flash!  Who could ask for more?

Btw, I downloaded the demo of Cool 3D and was very successful exporting a

series of gif files that imported into Flash beautifully.  I simply assigned

each it's own little key frame and shazam!  I had an effect similar to

matinee's.  (Believe me, though, it wasn't nearly as polished and slick.

:^&  )



Carrie




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>From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Joe

> >Crawford

> >Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 5:02 PM

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>To: flashershocker [dot] com

> >Subject: Re: 3D objects

> >

> >

> >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 : )

> >

> >Joe

> >

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