In a previous post, Flying Postcards and Tweening – 3D Billboard Tutorial demonstrated the use of tweening 3D rotation properties to achieve 3D-like effect. This time I aim at creating a more complex fly-in of an image in 3D space by leveraging 2D techniques like blitting on top of a rotating postcard to achieve a complex 3D effect.
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I had a very busy couple of weeks, and between attending FITC Toronto and preparing my game for the upcoming Toronto Game Jam I could not complete the post I planned, so for now just a few rants and comments on the current state of Flash platform and the industry.
READ MORE »Once again, its been some time since updating the blog. I finally took some time to organize the blog and moved it to a new host. It will now reside in a new domain – with the URL: blog.flexwiz.net – and should be much faster too. Yes, as a performance freak I am aware that [...]
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Flash 3D API in the current flash player (10.1) is very limited, and is no more than a basic perspective drawing. However, it is perfectly suitable for putting flat 2D objects in 3D space – to create what is often called ‘flying postcards’. Before FP10, Flying postcards used to be very difficult to code, but nowadays it [...]
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