[Golist] updates to GO3D - updates to demos

[Joel Stransky]

Dang, this makes me really wish I had more time to finish DepthTween.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:37 PM, John Grden <neoriley at gmail.com> wrote:

> ah thanks man!
>
> yeah I've been doing testing of late with Flash10's api and comparing their
> 2.5d with pv3D's.  In some cases, the 2.5D version looked better, but they
> have smoothing on etc.  So they assume quite a bit for you in doing the
> 2.5D, including the type of rotation system and culling choices.  It's kinda
> crazy.  They figure if YOU write your own triangles, then you can control
> everything, but when they do it for you (and they don't draw triangles btw),
> they assume alot - which in the end costs you on CPU.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Moses Gunesch <moses at goasap.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks John!
>> Hey, a current project I'm doing requires 2.5d, so we tried using Flash
>> 10's new rendering. We found it to be terribly slow and have really bad
>> anti-aliasing. So I figured I'd try switching to PaperVision.. turns out it
>> looks better, runs massively faster, and provides a ton of easy control that
>> makes real sense. (All Flash does is skew planes, it leaves everything
>> stacked in the display list so when you spin a cube all the planes overlap
>> incorrectly – close to useless.)
>> I also needed to do some tweening, so I threw Tween3D in there, worked
>> like a charm man. I think anyone using eclipse or flex builder will just
>> love this library since it provides ultimate code hinting and is extremely
>> straightforward to use.
>>
>> So, thanks on both counts!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> moses
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:42 AM, John Grden wrote:
>>
>> updated Tween3D to work with PlayState and updated both demo's to work
>> with the latest version of GreatWhite
>>
>> FreeCamera3D and Camera3D have become FrustrumCamera3D.  FrustrumCamera3D
>> is renamed to Camera3D and if you want it to be a "free" camera, just don't
>> set the target or set target to "null"
>>
>> John
>>
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