I've decided to learn Actionscript over Christmas break this year, so I thought it would be fun to try some 3D stuff.

This is what I have so far:
- System to render out nodes, edges, and polygons
- Basic control system (rotate, zoom, and move camera)
- Java "converter" which takes a .mdl file and converts it to a custom formatted text file
- Actionscript importer which imports the data from the text file and constructs a model from it

I attached a picture of the model in Animation Master, here's the same model in flash:
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/vandeweghe/web/engine.htm

Current issues:
- It runs pretty slowly. There are a few things I'm aware of that will speed it up a bit, but I'm guessing it's also the limits of what flash can handle
- I currently have all splines fully connected (first node connects to the last node). This is sometimes correct, but at other times it's not what I want



If you're interested, here are 2 more tests I did a bit earlier (that eventually led to this project):
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/vandeweghe/web/stars.htm
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/vandeweghe/web/particles.htm

Looks pretty neat

About the second link from the bottem, is it suppose to be about flying through the galaxy?

Echoman: Yeah, that was the basic idea. I didn't spend much time on it, I was just seeing if the idea would work.

UPDATE: I updated the link. Now it has a new model (also exported from animation master). I also modified the code to speed up performance (it now only has to do about half the calculations it was doing before)

I think Flash already supports 3D natively. Unless I'm thinking of Shockwave...

I mean, I understand if this is just a learning exercise for you (and it's good, if a little on the slow side), but if you wanna do 3D in a browser, you need hardware-acceleration. I'm almost positive it's Shockwave that does this.

Yea but for coding practice, this does help a lot

what happened to the little martian dude, and te cave monster?


also, new photos?


also, also, this is pretty neat, but i don't understand most of what you're talking about, mostly cause I'm not a coder.

And I'm finally back with an update, sorry it took so long...

Here's my newest progress:
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/vandeweghe/web/polygons.htm

At this point, I have polygons, edges, and nodes correctly implemented. The details:
- polygons sorted using (a slightly modified) painter's algorithm
- backface culling to eliminate rendering of hidden faces
- basic lighting/falloff based on angle of polygon to the camera



I actually DO have some to showcase...I'll post them when I get a bit of free time.

that's pretty cool im impressed

I'm impressed as well!

Once again...I return with an update:

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/vandeweghe/web/polygons.htm

Newest features:
- Bones allowing rotation and translation
- Hierarchical structure for parent and child bones
- Keyframes for animation

Woot! Mynock!