Oh boy, it shames me to see my last post has already been from December last year! Not that I haven’t been keeping busy; some binned personal projects, some that aren’t quite “there” yet, and a 3-month stint near San Francisco (what a city!). So yes, I’m happy to have a reason for another update,…
As mentioned in the previous blog post, the dev branch of Away3D 4.0 now has light probes. Light probes are essentially a special sort of light source that contain global lighting info for the scene location they’re placed at, encoded as cube maps. For diffuse lighting, these cube maps are simply indexed by the surface…
If you’ve been following the updates on the Away3D blog, you’ll have noticed the updated roadmap mentioning the dev branch on Github. This branch is basically where we’re working to get things towards Beta, so take a look if you’re curious to see where we’re headed. I personally advise anyone to use this branch if…
Oh such busy times! I’m not keeping up with my planned blog posts as much as I’d like, but between work and Away3D 4.0 updates there’s not as much time left to actually write about it. But, I did want to share a video from my presentation on Flash on the Beach 2011, showcasing some…
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…