Yah, after looking a while longer I realized what they were doing with the movement of clips. Creating movieclips of a sequence of bitmaps will be pretty easy to use and manipulate it seems.
I'll look into the Lightwave exporter you mentioned and the Illustrate! product that Pete mentioned. Thanks for your help! -s -----Original Message----- From: Paul Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:31 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options >I don't think it's a papervision game or 3D game at all. You have 3D >looking graphics with movieclips animated over it. They may be 3D models or > artist drawn cycles. > > I don't have experience of the Swift3D 3D studio exporter, but I know of > the Lightwave one. It doesn't export a 3D model, it exports a 3D animation > as a Flash movie. You can do this as a sequence of poses, or an animated > movie. Either way, within Flash you won't be dealing with 3D models just > Flash .swf assets. Just to elaborate a bit more.. Take the pyramid game. When the player moves left in the game the player movieclip is playing a sequence of frames showing the character moving left as the character movieclip is moved left. When the up arrow is used, the character switches the frames being played to indicate the character is climbing and the movieclip is moved upwards. It's well done on the site but standard game/cartoon development practice without manipulation of a true 3D object. The pyramid they climb is a 2D image (of a 3D pyramid) that's moved according to movement of the player. > Paul > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shannon Romano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:44 PM > Subject: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options > > > Hi List > > I came across this site the other day while researching 3d games and > possibilities with Flash: > www.nbc.com/american_gladiators/games<http://www.nbc.com/american_gladiators/games> > > I don't think it's a Papervision game although I could be wrong. Rather, > it looks to me some 3d models were exported out for use within Flash. > Does anyone have experience with this or give me your opinion please? I > have looked into the Swift3D tools > (http://www.erain.com/products/Plug-ins/ ) ( after extensive Google > trolling ) for exporting from 3DStudio Max but I don't have an first-hand > knowledge of Swift Tools. If anyone has used it I would love to hear how > well it works. > > Thanks for your time, > -shannon > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
