you gotta see this: crazy PHP and 3D in flash

[toli]

hey whats up everybody.

Please check out this online application i just completed, its for a company that produces custom labeled energy drinks.

you can upload your own designs and see how they look on a 3D can.

also, add some designs to a shopping cart, and press complete checkout... There you can confirm your designs, and proceed to paypal to enter your cc info.


http://www.xbrandfluids.com/canbuilder.php

[CyanBlue]

It looks good, but the rotation takes way too long and I think you are going to hear some complaints about the performance... Any way to speed it up abit???

[toli]

the only way i know to speed it up is either change the amount of polygons that break the image down, or upload a lower res picture - either way you loose the detail on the can...

or... theres another way... 3.0... :eek:

[CyanBlue]

I don't know if you can use this or not, but the result from the PaperVision 3D is real smooth... I think you need AS3 for that though...

[toli]

yeah i gotta look into that, but either way im planning to rebuild it in 3.0 as soon as the client decides that its what they want... as of right now, they are really happy with what we have, since there itsnt much real 3D stuff on the web as of right now

[senocular]

Id suggest wireframing motion and then rendering the still. Not only does this improve performance (especially in making rotation much smoother and responsive) but it also gives it a kind of designer-architect feel to it which, especially in this case, works because you are doing exactly that, designing a can.

actually, you're not designing there, are you. Thats more of a preview of what you made - maybe that wont work so hot afterall

[toli]

yeah your not really designing anything on the page itself - it just visualizes your design.

[marrek]

Pretty nice!

Only thing is rotation is slow, choppy on my connection ~60KB/sec.

other than that, looks great!

marrek