RE: FLASH: fyi: realtime 3D on the web, finally?

[John Dowdell]

At 8:46 AM 7/26/0,

bdykeses [dot] com

 wrote:

> I'm very interested in developing for this environment.  I've seen a

> few 3D shockwave games like snooker already - how are these made?


Cool. If you're referring to the "RealPool" game on shockwave.com, this is

a *great* realtime 3D renderering engine that drops in to the Shockwave

Player. The output is beautiful.


The developers are at http://www.3dgroove.com/ . I believe that at one time

they were licensing their 3D Xtra for use by others, but I don't see a link

for such contracts at the moment.


There are other people who have created drop-in 3D renderers for Director

too, and folks here at the shop contacted them first... the general

response seems to be relief, because at least some only made 3D engines so

they could deliver the content they wanted to create. Having a standardized

3D engine quickly available to over a hundred million web users can open up

many new businesses.



> is Director lingo used to build these "3D" scripts?


I'm not certain which examples we're talking about... I do know that the

person who coded the Lingo physics engine for RealPool was *very* adept at

scripting. I also know that the first version of Shockwave 3D will be

mainly driven by scripting... you can create a scene in Discreet 3D Studio

Max or other tools, but setting up the interactions will be done through

scripting rather than through a graphical interface.


Scripting skills will be necessary at the start, definitely. Getting the

raw rendering ability is the first step, and after that foundation is laid

then alternate interfaces can be developed atop that.


jd







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