It’s no secret that I like graphics. It’s the main reason why I play video games and it’s the main reason I got into programming. So obviously I was delighted to be invited and to join to the Away3D team last month. Inspired by my earlier Stok3d project (now on the backburner for a bit),…
When Alternativa3D showed some demos with their parallax mapping, I always thought it’d be interesting to try it myself without having to resort to PixelBender. Well, I did, and I wasn’t happy how some things turned out. There was no overlap of objects, and sharp edges would come out looking odd or distorted. Then, taking…
Bump mapping in AS3 has been done a couple of times before already, but I thought it would be cool to try out the effect with a seperate bump map for diffuse and specular lighting (with only slightly different logic for each ‘layer’, and that is how the light maps are calculated). It’s great to…