Good news. Disney using isometric 3D with Director

[Americo]

Disney have a beta vesion online of an isometric 3D application using Director..
It works ("is open") only a few hours each day:.
[url]http://vmk.disney.go.com/vmk/en_US/index?name=VMKHomePage[/url]
Isometric 3D can be the first step for "real" 3D (remember "The Sims"...).
And if this Disney project is a success I believe that ADOBE will look
Director with better eyes.

Our site (DMU) has free tutorials about isometric 3D (using Flash):
[url]http://www.dmu.com/flashy[/url]
And the "classic" free tutorials about Director 3D:
[url]http://www.dmu.com/3dd[/url]
If I have time I will actualize this group of tutorials soon, adding lessons
about Havok, Action Script, communication with Flash etc.

[necromanthus]

The "isometric 3D" doesn't exist !
It's about isometric view and 2D engines (such as
[url]http://necromanthus.com/Games/Flash/diablo.html[/url] engine).
This is a method to emulate a 3D world in a 2D environment (the "camera" angle
is set to 30-45 degrees)
Flash is a 2D vectorial environment, and for this reason is suitable for the
isometric view.
But using SW3D (a real 3D environment) to emulate a 3D world it's more than a
waste of resources ...
cheers

[Newt99]

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) explores the use of Shockwave 3D
to create isometric and even plain 2D games. The advantage ? Hardware
Acceleration of display !!!

So does Apple with Quartz in MacOS X Panther 10.3 and Quartz Extreme in MacOS
X Tiger 10.4

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by: Karl S
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) explores the use of Shockwave 3D
to create isometric and even plain 2D games. The advantage ? Hardware
Acceleration of display !!!
Karl, that's a (common) flash game and it's about FlashAsset.x32 (if ShockWave
is used as environment).
In other words: no acceleration at all !
If he's looking to promote Director MX2004, that's fine with me.
But his game (and this topic) has nothing to do with Director 3D
cheers

[Ex Malterra]

i've no inclination to argue the finer points... i think the thing is cool! i
saw the advert earlier from sc00by9999 looking for folks to work on a disney
project. is this it? i'm a disney freak. wish i had the skills/time to have
applied. it's good to see director used in a site of a high profile company
like disney.