shockwave, anark or anyother?

[buraksan]

we have used flash mx for our e-learning projects up to now. Everything is
ok with 2D in flash but the manager wants us create new 3D interactive
interfaces. So we start to search a tool that enables real time 3D rendering
on the web. The examples created by shockwave and anark are impressive. But
thinking from the design side which tool should be prefered, team have not
found the answer of question.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[66bing66]

Why not give act-3d quest3d a go it is certainly up to the job

[hondo3000]

i think for interface-design you should go with shockwave3D, because you have
the migh of director. i think it is the only tool that can handle 3D as a part
of normal webdesign.
You can also combine flashMX 2D Menus with the 3D-shockwave stuff.

inside director you have a easy to use environment that lets you create good
results in short time.
for creating 3D world and models you can use 3dsmax, maya, cinema4D and other
programms.

and with lingo as programming interface you can do very cool things.

and you can do more as the most shockwave3D samples show. For internet-stuff
i think shockwave3D is the best solution suitable for a designer.

but it is nessasary to know more about what you want to do. if you just want
to rotate a single produkt than you will find tools like cult3D more useful.

i have no expierience with anark stuff, but i am designer and very happy with
director and shockwave3D and in my personal opinion other apps are not
compareble to the amount of functions you have with director.

greetings

[shockland.com]

Yes, hondo3000 is right.

Use Director to create web3d. It is still the best technology for web3d.

You can use all of the Flash V2 Components as you use it in Flash MX 2004.
( XMLSocket for TCP/IP, XMLConnector for http posting , NetConnection for
connecting Flash Communication server e.t.c. )

I think this Flash stuff is a big plus...

Best regards
Ege Karaosmano?lu
[url]http://www.shockland.com[/url]

[Grampa Gar]

I've been developing e-learning projects with shockwave part time for a little
over 2 years now. It takes some time, but as you learn it, you begin to see
how tremendously powerful and flexible it truely is. If you are not afraid to
learn Lingo, you can do just about anything in 3D that you can imagine.
Shockwave's only limitations for me have been the shaders and the frame-rate to
polygon-count ratio. You're not going to get hyperrealist looking models nor
can you expect to render 100,000 polys at 30fps. Nonetheless, shockwave has
been flexible enough to provide acceptable work-arounds every time I've been
confronted with one of it's limitations. Again, it all depends on what you
want to do with it, but as an e-learning development application, I think you
will be very satisfied with shockwave.