It’s time to elaborate on the previous blog post’s topic and investigate one of the most important scene graph nodes: the Mesh. It’ll probably be the object you’ll be working with most, and it allows a form of flexibility that can really provide a benefit to your memory usage and performance. That is, of course,…
I’m planning some future blog posts dealing with tips to get better performance out of your Away3D 4.0 (FP11) projects. When working with the GPU, it’s easy to get unexpected slowdowns due to inefficient content. There are a lot of common mistakes and misconceptions that I see popping up time and time again, and I…
Molehill, Adobe’s new API to leverage the GPU for rendering, was made public some time ago in the form of an “incubator” Flash Player release, and along with it we released an early pre-alpha version of Away3D 4.0, codenamed “Broomstick”. I’ve been working on the new engine for quite some time now, and since the release I…
Since I’ve been working on Away3D 4.0 (Broomstick) for the past few months, it was pretty hard to find the energy to keep this blog up to date, and the promised part 2 of Hacking the Lite kept getting delayed. And delayed. And then delayed some more. Having access to the GPU also caused some…
For those living near Cologne, Germany, I’m stoked to announce I’ll be speaking at FFK (FlashForum Konferenz) this year. I’m particularly excited, as last year’s edition is still one of my best experiences in 2010, even though a certain Eyjafjallajökull caused an interesting aftermath for many :-). Titled “Keeping it Real”, the session will mainly…