Time to dig deeper into Away3D 4.0 and see how you can structure and manage your content to get the best performance! If you haven’t read the previous posts, it wouldn’t hurt to do so now, since this one will be all about Materials (on the Mesh side of things) and Geometries. In any sort…
Since I started playing around with Pixel Bender in Flash, I’ve been trying out some different approaches here and there and learned a thing or two on performance optimizations (and quirks). As many people use PB specifically for its performance, and not much has been written on the subject, I thought I’d share my experiences…
One final thing I wanted to achieve with smoke effects is to port the 2D simulation to 3D. Early results in pure AS3 were pretty disappointing, so again I turned to Pixel Bender and its speedy goodness. Still, the main obstacle was of course performance. The first step was to optimize the original 2D version…