AS3 Flash 3D Engine Alternativa Platform Drops A Nuke - Isometric and FPS
April 17, 2008 — drawkThis will blow you away. Found first via mrdoob (with quantum rss reading capability, before the message is concieved mrdoob is there).
Alternativa Platform, previously Alternativa Game, launched their Alternativa Platform milestone 1 and really one demo would have been enough but there are some great demos there that literally put them what appears a couple laps up on the 3d FPS style engine in Flash.
The engine is highly optimized and smooth, heavy on the processor, but using the ‘t’ key you can see some nice revealing triangle rendering. Also, playing with the field of view adds for some nice game effects. (try jumping on the fans in the half-life like room in the first demo)
Check the textures
See the Matrix
Get superpowers
From Above, Isometric
Here is what is to come from the platform:
- dynamic lighting and shadows (точечные и направленные источники света);
- bump lighting;
- parallax mapping;
- automatic UV-mapping;
- sprites, 3D-sprites;
- sprite lighting;
- texture objects;
- Global Illumination imitation;
- sprite pre-render system (phases render on server using uploaded 3D-models);
- animation system (including inverse kinematics);
- 3D-objects interactivity;
- physics simulation.
Congrats to the Russian based Alternativa Platform, the world is watching.
April 18, 2008 at 11:08 am
“the world is watching” and getting horribly board. There needs to be some mention of what is planned for the engine.
April 18, 2008 at 12:27 pm
hey rey,
yeh it is like any gaming industry title or creation, these things take time… It can be hard to measure when to release and when to stop. It is pretty obvioius their iterations are getting better. closer. But like any good tech pushing limits, it just takes time.
I would like to hear about their business model more for usage or what type of openness it will have etc. The tech is amazing but there are three parts to success, technology, bus/marketing/product/design, and most importantly, timing…
April 23, 2008 at 3:18 am
[...] even de link naar deze site i.p.v. naar Box2D omdat hier nog meer moois te vinden is (waaronder wat 3D-werk in Flash)! Dit alles draait ook nog redelijk soepel maar wanneer je rondkijkt is het een pixelbrij - zodra [...]
April 28, 2008 at 5:02 am
I’d have to agree with rey. All this looks great but what are you trying to accomplish? You should get the source code out asap so people can start developing and give this project direction. If you wait until you’ve got a full isometric rpg with all the bells and whistles then people are going to get seriously bored waiting. Even if its not complete, people like myself want to CREATE, not see an endless list of tech demos. Let the pigeons loose.
April 29, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Sniperdog,
we’re planning to open SWC-library for non-commercial use, and also preparing licenses for commercial use in any projects.
http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/2008/04/23/alternativa3d-licensing/
May 5, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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