Everybody who wants to get a better impression of Flash 3D capabilities should take a look at the wonderful ecodazoo website. And then think again of my article: one metaverse - different visual layers and imagine a light-weighted web application as a first step to enter an easy to use instance of the metaverse.
I should really read more about Papervision3D and the exact possibilities and perfomance issues when it comes to Flash and 3D …
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1 Markus Breuer (Pham Neutra) // Jun 8, 2008 at 6:18 am
while I share your - and other industry experts - excitement about “virtual worldlets”, which can be plugged into web pages, I very much doubt, that flash will be useful for much more than 2.5D or some funny visuals like this. (And 2.5D worlds are sufficient for many purposes, so I am certainly not trying to imply that Flash is useless in this context.)
As soon as you try to go 3D with the current incarnation of Flash (Flash10 might be different), the performance is just too mediocre, to phrase it politely. Industry guys like us might be fascinated to “the possibilities”, but I am afraid, most users will simply ask: “why is this so laggy”?
And as soon as you try to introduce avatars (which are much, much more important to the immersive effect in virtual worlds, than “going 3D”), the whole thing either breaks down completely - or looks like sh** because the avatars are flat 2D surfaces in a slow 3D environment. I have seen quite an number of experiments with flash based virtual worldlets now. I still prefer Habbo
“Flash is ubiquitous, so with PaperVision we can build 3D virtual worlds in every wep page” is just a dream. With current technology Flash is fine for 2D and 2.5D. For anything resembling a 3D world you need a PlugIn or Java.
And if you want to know what “is possible with Flash and 3D”, check out Flash 10 (Beta is out), which integrates a similar model right into the base platform and supports GPUs.
2 Sebastian Küpers // Jun 8, 2008 at 1:51 pm
well - I am aware of the fact, that there are bigger perfomance issues, when it comes to Flash and 3D, as indicated above.
I also like the 2.5D approaches, but I hope that Flash can offer us also other views, than the typical “Habbo Style”, in the not to distant future.
3 Pedro Meya Marty - Agentur für Virtuelle Welten wie Second Life » Blog Archive » Flash in 3D? Check out Papervision3D // Jun 9, 2008 at 10:39 am
[…] Mit dem neuen Tool Papervision3D wird Flash in 3D möglich. Erste, imposante Anwendungsbeispiele sind der Visual Newsreader «Spectra», oder die ecodazoo Website [via]. […]
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