If you’ve been paying attention to the Away3D blog, you probably already know that the 4.1 alpha has been released today, which has been my main fixation since September (when I wasn’t getting radiation poisoning). As mentioned in the release post, one of the new features is “multipass shading”. If you’re not into 3D rendering programming,…
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…
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…
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…