Comments on: Hardware Rendering for 3D in Silverlight or Flash? And, Anyone Seen Our Director?

By: hugo

hugo — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:54:43 +0000

hello there, i can not believe why flash player still does not hardware rendering, leaving 3d transformations out, it would be a great pleasure to have 2d accelerated gfx, with that everything would be possible … uargh, we have 2008 and still there is no hardware accellerated rendering in flash … W H A T A S H A M E ! ! !eleven!

By: drawk

drawk — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:47:33 +0000

Hey Jon, yeh been posting and working on flash a long time and started early on silverlight.

At most gaming sites that are 3d are Shockwave Director is why I say that. There are lots of great online plugins but that is the problem most are download. I have a irrlicht plugin that I would love people to have but they dont’ so it isn’t much use. Java with Runescape is doing ok for a large online game in 3d although it is very weak. Shockwave from games on miniclip that are 3d or other sites where true 3d is needed it still owns due to hardware acceleration and platform support 50% of people already have it.

The unity game engine is awesome but others like wildtangent have messed up and get successful and turn to bad ads or spyware. So it unity doesn’t do that then rock on, but right now making a 3d game (not in fake 3d in flash) that is hardware accelerated the largest market still is Shockewave but that is fading.

By: Jon Davis

Jon Davis — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:27:31 +0000

I found this blog post by searching “silverlight 3d support” (without the quotes), it was the first hit.

FYI, Shockwave Director is NOT the current standard for web-based 3D games. Flash is the standard for games in general, but for 3D games Director is almost never used. Unity has taken that position. Google for “Unity game engine”.

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