Re: 3D objects in FLash

[dsy]

After reading this thread for a week now, I would have to agre on this. You

would be insane if you did it all in Flash and the explaination that Matinee

used (highly unlikely I suspect) seems glorified by everyone here. This is how I

would do it in Flash 3:


-Use Uleads' Cool3D (a good observation from Craig Ferrente) and find a font you

like Webdings or wingdings. You would be amazed at the quality you can get from

these fonts. Cool3D is one of those great programs that do one thing only.


-Save whatever you have to an animated gif. You don't have to worry about how

big the file is.


-Open a new .fla and create a new symbol. Import the animated gif. Flash creates

the nessesary frames to accommodate the gif.


-In frame one, select the image and break it apart. Next choose curves>optimize

and use the settings recommended by the online help. Do this for every frame or

use multiple frame edit (not sure if the later works).


-Once your finnished, close the symbol and save the .fla, then close that.


-Use that .fla as a library for a new .fla


Thats it. Of course, your tweaking all the way through but when aren't you? On

the matter of importing .dxf files, I think that Flash 'just happens' to support

the file format, hence its inclusion. Flash is not a 3D app. All 3D is

illusionary. If you want to use your 3D models, animate them first in a 3D app

and save it to an AVI or quicktime and export it to a animated gif.

My 2�


btw

Josh, TRP is awsome and I've been admiring it for months. That butterfly still

freaks me out, man.


don Yap

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Joshua Ulm wrote:


> >I have just subscribed to the list today, actually am fairly new to Flash.

> >We are looking at this site   http://www.matinee.co.uk  going wow! how'd

> >they do that. I wondered if anyone out there could shed some light on the

> >subject of using 3-d objects in flash. 3D Studio max stuff preferrably. (or

> >point to a good resource)

> >

> >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?

>

> isn't it possible that all the 3d stuff for these isn't done in flash at

> all? esp. since flash works great with importing bitmaps. look at

> <http://www.theremediproject.com>. that butterfly ain't real folks. it

> was rendered in InfiniD, exported as a series of butmaps and imported

> into flash. then just align them into a symbol as a movie. its that

> simple. keep the dimensions small, (like they do on the matinee site) and

> it will run fast. zippy even!!

>

> designers!! stop thinking application specific design. just because you

> do a flash site, doesn't mean it has to or even should begin there. like

> the man says, "think outside the box."

>

> j.

>

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