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The Archives
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12.17.09Blue Mars Virtual World Gets FlashyBlue Mars one-upped other virtual world platforms today with the introduction of embeddable Flash-based content in the environment. Similar to more corporate virtual environments such as Protosphere or Croquet which allow interactive, embedded content, Blue Mars now allows its worlds (and world creators) to include embedded Flash-based content. The announcement comes on the heels of an intriguing cross-world brand move: the opening of Caledon in Blue Mars, which brings a popular Second Life steampunk-themed community to the Blue Mars platform. According to Kazuyuki (“Kaz”) Hashimoto, president of Avatar Reality, “The Blue Mars system for Flash is super easy to use. You ...
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02.12.09Free Your Avatar: X-Box Live Lets LooseX-Box Live is allowing you to free your avatar in time for Valentines Day. The simple application lets you port your avatar off the X-Box platform and send photos of it to friends. "The updated ‘Free Your Avatar’ tool will provide brand new backgrounds and props for every occasion including birthday backgrounds, party hats and balloons. Additionally, people will be able to upload their very own backgrounds: Place your avatar in front of famous landmarks you’ve always wanted to visit, or insert your avatars into your favorite movie scene. " I've often wondered why you can't do the same in Second Life. ...
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12.16.08Linden Lab Launches Big Spaceship Web Design, Invisible Pods and AllEdit: Since this post, the Lab seems to have listened to the community and provided a screen shot of the new test home page. See it and comments here. Linden Lab is rolling out a new home page for the Second Life Web site. The page, designed through their recent hiring of Big Spaceship will go where others fear to tread: a Flash-based design. This is exciting news. New users will be able to experience Second Life before they even log in, by awaiting whatever Flash-y stuff they have cooked up, and for those on lower bandwidth they'll know by ...
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12.07.08Sunday Diversions: AuditoriumJust a little side trip here, by way of Raph Koster and Sources and Methods, comes Auditorium, a Flash game that's both beautiful to look at and fun to play: each level introducing a bit more challenge but never to the point of absolute frustration (and besides, even if frustrated, the music makes it worthwhile). Now, if only we could make particles do this kind of thing.
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09.24.08Going Mainstream with 3D Content? Enter Adobe’s Creative Suite 4Adobe's announcement of Creative Suite 4 includes significant additions to the ability to work with 3D content, extending the ability of Flash, Photoshop and other programs in the 'family' to deliver rich 3D experiences and design across platforms. According to the Adobe press release: "Adobe Creative Suite 4 brings 3D center-stage providing the ability to paint, composite, and animate 3D models using familiar tools. Flash CS4 Professional now offers the ability to apply tweens to objects instead of keyframes, providing greater control over animation attributes. Also in Flash, the new Bones tool helps create more realistic animations between linked objects. With a ...
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09.01.086 Months of 3D Flash in 10 MinutesHebiflux.com brings us a video showing the use of 3D in Flash, capping the tour off with Small Worlds, with many of the demos using Papervision to create 3D environments. a Flash-based virtual world: 6 months of 3D in flash in 10 minutes from Galdric on Vimeo.
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05.28.08Cathay Pacific: Avatars, 3D Tour, PapervisionCathay Pacific is showing off it's new airplane cabins on a Web site that combines selecting a stand-in for yourself - male or female, the ability to tour the cabin in 3D, and artful use of Papervision in the interface. The site is remarkably fast to load, immerses you in the environment of the aircraft, and gets down to the level of allowing you to test how the seats maneuver and lights adjust. A flight simulator and an in-board movie allows you to watch trailers for what will be shown on board. Of course - also has you dreaming of first class travel, ...
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04.06.08Flash – Brilliant Little PauseOK, quick little pause here, just because this is a little nugget of brilliance. Have a look.
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03.18.08Papervision Samples and Resources IVMore good stuff with Papervision...and the more I think about the utility of 3D environments using the Flash platform, the more excited I become...imagine once HTML on a prim hits Second Life if you could be in a virtual world, accessing a 3D space through a 3D object. Hmmm....rabbit holes within rabbit holes. In the meantime, a spherical version of the previous Flickr box I previously posted: Source PaperWorld is an open source project looking to build virtual worlds/multi-user environments on the Papervision platform. It promises the delivery of games such as the following: Video According to the PaperWorld site: PaperWorld3D is an open-source Flash/Java project ...
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