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Flash Player has a 3D future
STEVE JOB'S favourite multimedia software is about to get a third dimension.
Flash engineers are starting to work on a method to make Flash work in 3D.
Frankly we wish it would work a little bit better on the two dimensions it has, and perhaps in 64-bit. However it seems that Adobe thinks it knows best.
The outfit has made no official announcement of its cunning plans. However Sebastian Marketsmueller, an Adobe Flash Player engineer, apparently will be giving a talk for web and apps developers on the subject of 3D Flash APIs.
Apparently he will do all this using Actionscript and a specially crafted version of Flash Player while suspended by his teeth over a pit of wild Apple fanbois who have not been allowed to upgrade recently. Well, we made that last bit up.
He will be speaking on 27 October just before lunch, according to this schedule. µ
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Now the time and effort required to find the desired information on a Flash website will increase to its cube.
Now what? 3D PDFs?
Keep'em coming, Adobe.
Can you guys hire some editors with some expertise, please? AS3 has had basic 3d support now since, i don't know, AS3 came out? And there are plenty of open source 3D libraries you can implement with Flash right now (using even old crusty AS2).
They are probably just trying to integrate hardware acceleration.
Just one Flash 3D example: http://ecodazoo.com/
The Linux version still won't be complete (and, if they were sane, this could be the one platform that's not explicitly out to kill them and replace their technologies, unlike apple (no, you can't have flash, and you *must* use blessed languages) and microsoft (no, use silverlight! it's kinda sort somewhat cross-platformish!). But that would require actually supporting linux 100% and freeing the specifications.
Flash performance in Linux has always been abysmal (can stutter even on a quad-core 8GB box!) and is only getting worse than their Windows builds (see the comarketing on amd's blogs for example, for how this gap is only increasing).
and this, ultimately, is why Linux users form the semi-reluctant third group out to kill Flash, this time with HTML5+SVG: abysmal performance and quality, and control freakery.
Can't wait to be able to see how badly the Linux version sucks in 3D.
This is the perfect example of what's wrong with Adobe these days. They would rather bolt more gimmocky cruft onto their products than fix the long standing issues that ruin them. It really looks to me as if the Marketing Dept has made the engineers their bitches and it shows in the products they churn out, which seem to get worse with every major new version.