Away3D is opensource. Its Stage3D version is codenamed Broomstick. Its core development team currently consists of 9 developers. I’m sure these guys are all so incredibly intelligent that even if they speak English (or Afrikaans) I would not understand a word of it. Their dialect contains words like Quaternion and Eulers and they use phrases like Fresnel Specular Method and Single Object Depth Pass.
Anyway, back to normal English. I recently stumbled across Minecraft style tiles published on PixelJoint by Rusty. I have been meaning to try out Away3D, but could not decide what I wanted to create. These simple tiles ignited the desire to create a Minecraft-feel landscape generated using Perlin noise.
As Broomstick is still in Beta, I did come across a few unfinished features (Skybox hides part of my scene, unable to move or remove a secondary view). These prompted me not to spend too much time on workarounds as the Away3D library may get updated and change the way some of these features work. In fact, I realised there had recently been a new release of Broomstick on Github. After recompiling all the vertical tiles were missing and the horizontal tiles showed the wrong textures.
There is still a lot I want to do with this little Away3D playground. I can’t wait for more free-time.
button takes you back – photo to album or album to parent album.
button changes the display mode to full screen or windowed view.
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