Re: FLASH: Flash3, Toy or serious designer tool?

[Garret Parsons2]

>Just curious as to how possible it would be to add 3D support into

>Flash? Utimately we are talking about some need of a rendering engine

>inside of Flash. And if so render to what? Render to bitmap or vector?

>If Flash renders to bitmap like every other 3D app how would this be any

>better than just importing bitmaps from a 3D app to start with. So what

>we really want is a render to vector. But so far I have yet to find any

>3D app that has a render to vector capability. Sure there are some

>programs that can simulate a simple extrusion by basically copying a

>shape over and over. But I haven't seen any application at all that can

>render a complex model into a shaded vector image. Has anyone else find

>such a program?

>

>Am I wrong that this technology to render a complex 3D model into vector

>just doesn't exist as of yet. If it doesn't exist then what are the

>realistic expectations of having 3D capabilities inside of Flash. Are

>Flash designers going to be happy if Flash only renders 3D objects to

>bitmap? 

> 



Yes there is such a product. "Adobe Dimensions" Go to there Web Page.

www.adobe.com. Dimensions is available in both Wintel and Mac.

It's a Great Program and very fast!


Hope this helps

-Garret


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