[Golist] updates to GO3D - updates to demos

[John Grden]

yeah, there are a few things that they're putting in that are going to be
very nice features for doing 3D work, one of which I *think* will help out
with interactivity.  But so far we haven't really been too impressed with
speed enhancments.  We were hoping for some speed increases, but Vectors are
no different than Arrays in our basic speed comparisons and we're just
starting to look at drawTriangles() to see if there's a speed dif there.  So
far, it just doesn't seem like there's a diff.  There IS a dif in quality
because of the perspective drawing of course, but I think that comes at a
price - like using percision on the materials in PV3D.

still, it's way to early to say one way or the other.  I have a feeling
there are somethings we still don't know about that they've put in the
player and the api.  I'm more excited about PixelBender and custom filters
to be honest

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Cedric M. analogdesign
<newsl at analogdesign.ch> wrote:

>  >updated Tween3D to work with PlayState and updated both demo's to work
> with the latest version of GreatWhite
> I'm looking forward to testing it ;)
>
> > yeah I've been doing testing of late with Flash10's api and comparing
> their 2.5d with pv3D's.  In some cases, the 2.5D version looked better, but
> they have smoothing on etc.  So they assume >  quite a bit for you in
> doing the 2.5D, including the type of rotation system and culling choices.
> It's kinda crazy.  They figure if YOU write your own triangles, then you can
> control everything,  >  but when they do it for you (and they don't draw
> triangles btw), they assume alot - which in the end costs you on CPU.
> Thank you for sharing this John, it sounds like the future of Papervision3D
> and other 3D APIS is bright and will remain on the edge ;)
>
>
> Best regards.
>
> Cedric M. (aka maddec)
>
> Interactive Creator
> Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR Specialist
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