3D Space in AS 3.0

[RyuuJin Silver]

Im sure Actionscript 3.0 is related to this question, but I do not believe it is specifically related to it. The effect I am trying to create is to have a fully 3D enviorment with 2d Panels. The effect I am trying to achieve can be best shown here in this upcoming video game title called Dirt.

You can view a youtube video demo of the menu system by clicking here. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fGNvRcS9A7w)

Notice the 2D panels are in a 3D enviorment, I was just wondering if there was anyone who could point me in the direction to how to achieve this using AS 3.0 and Flash 9. I have searched through the forums and could only find threads related to as 2.0 and similar effects using only vector shapes and not movie clips. (I will need to have images, videos and text on the panels.) Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
RyuuJin

[RyuuJin Silver]

Im sure Actionscript 3.0 is related to this question, but I do not believe it is specifically related to it. The effect I am trying to create is to have a fully 3D enviorment with 2d Panels. The effect I am trying to achieve can be best shown here in this upcoming video game title called Dirt.

You can view a youtube video demo of the menu system by clicking here. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fGNvRcS9A7w)

Notice the 2D panels are in a 3D enviorment, I was just wondering if there was anyone who could point me in the direction to how to achieve this using AS 3.0 and Flash 9. I have searched through the forums and could only find threads related to as 2.0 and similar effects using only vector shapes and not movie clips. (I will need to have images, videos and text on the panels.) Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
RyuuJin

[dr_zeus]

You might be interested in Papervision 3D (http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/). It's a 3D engine for AS3, and from the information I've seen so far, it should be easy to put 2D interfaces on 3D surfaces.

[dr_zeus]

Please do not duplicate posts in multiple sections on this site. Many of us visit more than one section and we will see it.

[RyuuJin Silver]

You might be interested in Papervision 3D (http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/). It's a 3D engine for AS3, and from the information I've seen so far, it should be easy to put 2D interfaces on 3D surfaces.

I have taken a look at this and from what I have read its mostly for vector images and I have yet to find a way to use movie clips, images and such with this.

[dr_zeus]

I think you may have missed something. If you look at the official Papervision 3D website (http://www.papervision3d.org/), you'll see a cool underwater scene. I'm pretty sure that the textures on the shark and fish aren't vector-based. They're pretty detailed, and I'd guess that they're images of some sort.

[RyuuJin Silver]

Alright, thanks a lot, I'll give it a shot. Sorry about the double post.

[Glen Charles Rowell]

You could make an animation and have rotation, x, y, and z of objects moving when you press the arrow keys with a few moving layers (movieclips) in the background that also move when you press the arrow keys. That would look and be 3D in a way or go with the paperspace thing. It looks cool.

Glen Charles Rowell

[AJ-D]

http://wiki.papervision3d.org/ is your friend.

Video is most certainly possible (http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=552), as is interaction and pixel effects.

Take a look at the entries to the browser demo competition (ftp://scene.org/pub/parties/2007/assembly07/browser_demo) at this year's Assembly (particularly this one (ftp://scene.org/pub/parties/2007/assembly07/browser_demo/adhdtv_by_evoflash__bombsquad.zip)) to get an idea of what's possible with this kind of stuff.