Comments on: Introducing Stok3d – More FP10 3D+Pixel Bender shading

By: 3D Fractals (Ray-traced with Flash) | Neuro Productions

3D Fractals (Ray-traced with Flash) | Neuro Productions — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:37:03 +0000

[...] that, I used a Pixel Bender filter (from Stok3D by David Lenaerts) to add phong shading to the [...]

By: Nex

Nex — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:12:48 +0000

is it jus me or my comments aren’t being submitted?

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:00:35 +0000

Peter: Those examples looks fantastic! It’s a good example that sometimes, 2D looks better (and faster) than 3D

dVyper: Thanks. I think cpu-wise limits can be reached quite quickly. It’s very tempting to go overboard with these kinds of effects, especially since chaining together some filters can be very nice but intensive!

By: Dynamic text with phong shading using Stok3d | sakri rosenstrom blog

Dynamic text with phong shading using Stok3d | sakri rosenstrom blog — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:52:26 +0000

[...] Yesterday David DerSchmale Lenaerts released Stok3d into the wild. When he showed me the demos, I immediately felt (you guessed it) STOKED! [...]

By: dVyper

dVyper — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:39:18 +0000

Very impressive. I wonder what the limits are to the use of these features…

By: Peter Strømberg

Peter Strømberg — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:26:07 +0000

Great! Normal maps are a fantastic concept aren’t they, and your lighting models look really convincing.
I tried making a Pixel Bender shader for normal mapping, turning 2D images into 3D, when light is applied. http://www.videometry.net/ARdemo/normalMapper.html (I too was stoked that this actually worked

and animated… http://www.videometry.net/ARdemo/shirty.html

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:10:06 +0000

Makc: First of all, don’t worry. The GPL License is most likely only temporary while this project is still in an experimental phase and going to be redistributed under a more permissive license. “No one can use them” is a pretty strange claim. You can redistribute and modify it as long as you provide the source and don’t change the license, which is exactly what I’d like at this point – people experimenting with it in a purely open source context.

By: makc

makc — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:30:56 +0000

on the unrelated note, what’s the difference between publishing sources under gpl and not publishing sources? noone can use them either way.

By: David

David — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:01:34 +0000

Thx all!
Piergiorgio: I think it’s safe to say that Wick3d is buried I learned from it what I wanted to learn and as such it was time to move on. This is especially for FP10 native 3D.

David: Well, if you combine several DisplayObjects with different rotational settings etc, I guess it could work, but probably not as well as the shader effects in Away3D or in (upcoming) Papervision X, which are much more suited for mesh work.

Rothrock: It needs 10.0.22. It seems some Pixel Bender implementation bugs were fixed since some previous versions.

By: Rothrock

Rothrock — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:19:05 +0000

I really like your posts. Unfortunately I can’t see most of your demos. It says that Flash 10 is required and asks if I want to install it. I’ve got 10.0.2.54 installed.