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Away3D 2.3 is out

Nicolas Rajabaly — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:51:14 +0000

With awayBuilder :

And a custom parser for Maya scenes saved as Collada files.

Some other feature highlights in this release include:

* Interchangeable camera lenses to allow for different types of projection
* All values allowed for stage properties “align” and “scaleMode”
* Improved memory management
* Improved extrusion tools
* ROLL_OVER/ROLL_OUT events added to MouseEvent3D
* Billboard mesh objects for fast 2d sprites

To download check this page.

Benchmark between all flash 3D engines

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07:15 +0000

Tsoin have posted a complete benchmark between Sandy3D, Papervision3D, Away3D and Alternativa3D.

You can read it here ! (sorry it’s in french :p )

Away3D 2.2: RailAway Express

Nicolas Rajabaly — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:12:01 +0000

RailAway Express is the new demo of the 3D engine Away3D.

Some of the new features in 2.2 includes :

- Collada bones support and improved features
- Triangle caching
- Bouding box and bounding sphere calculations
- PathExtrude, PathAnimator and PathDuplicator
- Simple Shadows
- Object based renderers
- Obj Exporter
- ElevationModifier
- Elevation2AS3

A very good work on the sound (Andre Michelle and Joa Ebert) so turn up your speakers !

To see the demo it is here.

To download away 3D 2.2 go the downloads page or check the svn repository

Full update details will be posted on the AWAY3D mailing list.