Just after some quick advice. I want to create an interactive animated flash music website that involves the user being able to wander around a rehersal room and interact with objects.
Can anyone recommend a good 3d tool to use along with Flash. Ideally something that I can use Illustrator tpo draw the room/objects, but not essential.
thanks for your help.
Not sure how you would use illustrator to create 3d assets, but I think papervision looks like your best bet.
Otherwise you could use Unity instead of flash. You would get a much better result from Unity.
Another 3D engine for Flash is Away3D. I mention it because Eminem's Relapse album website was built with it and from the sounds of things is simlar to what you are trying to achieve http://www.therelapse.com/#/?room=entrance - in saying so the site could be built with papervision too.
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I would like to create a 3D navigation wall similar to http://www.dior.com/couture/en_us/The-House-of-Dior/THE-HOUSE-OF-DIOR.
I've seen a similar plugin in http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/3dwall/.
However, I want to create it from scratch as I need to customize it very much.
Any starting template you know would be helpful.
A template might be helpful, but if you truly need to customize it very much, I would suggest that you learn the ins and outs of a nice 3D code library. If you do find a template, you will probably spend just as much time tweaking it only to find that it doesn't allow for what you want.
There are many existing 3D libraries for ActionScript that could make this a pretty straightforward task. PaperVision3D, Away3D or even the native Stage3D API in the Flash Player could get you going in the right direction.
If you want to customize it and have full control over the content you better learn something from scratch: Alternativa3D, Away3D, Flare3D (quite yeasy), Minko.... Those are the most popular and depends on your needs.
I'm doing a football game which is now seen from above, I would like to know the easiest way to transform it into a perspective view.
There are a few isometric engines out there.
http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2010/02/23/11-flash-isomet...
http://code.google.com/p/as3isolib/
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/isometric_tra...
(tutorial)
http://gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=136 (Can recommend this site)
What is isometric? Well google images shows alot: http://images.google.nl/search?tbm=isch&q=isometric
It is a kind of a eagle eye perspective that I think you are looking for. And you dont need a full 3d engine for it.
If you just want to rotate the stage and don't care about a fully isometric 3D environment, you can try playing around with the stage.rotateX stage.rotateY and stage.rotateZ properties. For a richer 3D game, you'll want to look at some of the isometric links (posted by SynerCoder) or a full 3D engine like Papervision3D (http://blog.papervision3d.org/)
I was taking a look at this example, http://gardengnomesoftware.com/samples/pano2vr_3/mozart/ and I was really interested in how it was done.
Do you think it would be complicated to develop such a function using one of the webgl engines out there? Is the panorama image just a texture on a cylindrical model? How is the panorama "cut?"
Perhaps it is just a cube with the images as a texture? You can kind of see the faces when it is loading slowly.
Yes, in this case it is simply a cube that the "camera" is centered in. It's basically the same concept as a skybox in many video games.
How to create a cube-map from photos the way they've done isn't something I have experience with, but the wikipedia article links to some tools that may help, including Hugin
Is there a way to embed Sketchup models on a website? Preferably a free one, if it's a commercial solution I'd like a confirmation that it's actually worth the money... I know about the 3D warehouse thingy where you can rotate it (javascript and some images), but I can't upload anything to the 3D warehouse 'cause it always "resets the connection".
You can try the upcoming WebGL Functions in modern Browsers. There are some Javascript Libraries that can read model files and show them within your (HTML 5?) website. I have not used them yet, but try these links if this sounds interesting:
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/
https://github.com/timjb/sketchup-threejs/
I made a patch of an example game in three.js. Added ColladaLoader and Sketchup model + Third Person Shooter controls:
https://github.com/irony/Nemesis
Try it out (Works best in Chrome)
http://peaceful-woodland-4410.herokuapp.com/index.html
You can use http://sketchfab.com, they even have a SketchUp exporter.
Yes, you can do it without cost. See here: https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000258
EDIT:
There were some free rendering sites apart from Google, but they don't seem to be in operation anymore. Posting to the Google 3D warehouse is going to be your best bet. Regarding your problem posting there, try it with Chrome.
EDIT #2:
If you don't want to upload to Google 3D Warehouse, you can achieve a similar effect with a little work. 3D Warehouse doesn't actually give the visitor the power to manipulate something in 3D, but rather it lets them "rotate" the image horizontally by simply showing a series of preset images of the 3D from various angles. You can take shots of your 3D object, import to Photoshop and create your own gif of the spinning object. A little more work than relying on Google, so you'll have to decide if it's worth it.
EDIT #3: If all else fails you can simply post the 3D model on your site as a downloadable file and advise visitors to get Sketchup to view it.
I want to know, Is there any way to handle or control the shockwave objects in flash by using 'as3'? I know this is possible in 'Director' by using 'Lingo'. But I am not able to find any way or any articles from where i can get some idea about this. In the director, I've seen there is way to set some properties like camera position, light affects etc. with the shockwave objects. But I am not sure about the FLASH. Can it possible to use these type of properties with shockwave objects in flash, which could be controlled in action script3 ???
Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!
To my knowledge there is no such possibility in flash.
If you want complicated 3D in flash, I suggest you use something like papervision3D
Flash only has basic 3D transformation since version CS4, Director (ShockWave) have had advanced, hardware accelerated 3D for many years. But I think Director is in some sort of limbo and Idon't know if Adobe is going to continue to develop it.
The Flash player has also become faster and Actionscript more powerful, so I think that something like papervision3D may be a good alternative for the most part.
Also bare in mind that the Flash player is much more widespread than the ShockWave Player