Very interesting discussion. I personally think that what with all the talk of hardware acceleration native in the browser, Adobe would have to be completely out of touch to not include some form of GPU acceleration to their graphics API in the next major release of Flash for desktop machines. Its telling that they have already been busy doing that with their 10.1 releases of Flash Player on mobile, with full GPU acceleration on all vector graphics.
10.1 on the desktop only had GPU acceleration for video, but the way things are going this will not be enough in the short term. Adobe probably have about a year before technologies such as WebGL and the hardware accelerated IE9 go mainstream, which is more than enough for them to come out with cross platform graphics acceleration first. This would have a huge impact on the sort of 3D that could then be reasonably expected from the Flash Player. However, for the present, i totally agree with Jens' sentiment - 3D in Flash is about reaching everyone. If browser compatibility isn't a top priority for your project, then don't use Flash. Rob On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Nicolo Games <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello again, > > I have started the site (in progress). www.elives.eu (if there is > anyone here could be interested in the development or want to > collaborate) The Dev will probably start this summer, it starts as > unpaid work, more info on the site in the next weeks. > > I have decided for unity 2.6 to move to 3.0 once released (probably by > the time we will start it will be out.) > and smartfox pro server, eventually with terracotta if necessary. > > This trio Unity (2.6) 3.0 + Smartfox Pro Server (nextly 2.0) and > Terracotta 3 seems quite promising from my research. > I was looking at the project darkstar, red dwarf now, but it's not > stable it seems... so... > > Thanks to everyone for your previous advices. > > Cheers, > Nicolo > Elives Interactive > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to away3d-dev+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- Rob Bateman Flash Development & Consultancy [email protected] www.infiniteturtles.co.uk www.away3d.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to away3d-dev+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
