Re: FLASH: Vecta 3d animations not usefull for the web?

[John Foust]

At 05:03 PM 10/8/99 +0100, Marcel van der Kruk wrote:

>Will it be a Windows version only? Or will the mac version also be

>available at that time?


Yes, I was reading something about that the other day in PC Week.

Can you imagine, Apple is still in business, although they're not

making the Apple II any more.


>Allthough I like the look of the images made with vecta 3d I'm a little

>sceptic about serious Vecta3d animations for use on the web. Every frame

>of the animation results in a flash graphic. 


For apps that need it, it's the only way.  Still, structured static 

3D rendering is very useful.  


>IMHO Solutions like VRML are, in theory, far better because these files

>calculate the object only once and so object can be rotated in real

>time. Interactivity with Vecta3d is gonna be very limited.


That depends, too.  They might play some tricks that would pre-render

the object along certain rotation sequences.  For example, you could

limit your motion to two particular rotation sequences, and only let

the visitor turn the object to the side, or turn it upside-down.


- John




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