Overview
Two days of practical tips and tricks for producing Flash 3D content using the Away3D engine.
Learn how to maximise the potential of Away3D with the co-founder and chief architect Rob Bateman. Old and new features will be covered in detail, including the latest updates available in the recently anounced 2.2 release. Topics range from generic 3d concepts to detailed walkthroughs of real-world techniques designed to aid 3D design and development in Flash. Full source code is provided for all explanatory demos.
This course is aimed at developers and code-oriented designers interested in using real-time 3D in their flash work with the Away3D engine. Minimum requirements: Introductory or Intermediate level knowledge of Actionscript 3.0 and Flex Builder/FDT/CS3.
Presented by Rob Bateman
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Outline
1. Introduction
- Background of Away3D
- Overview of engine
- Engine philosophy
- Setting up the development environment
2. 3D graphics 101
- Objects, scenes, cameras and views
- Moving a 3d object
- Types of visual elements
3. Using external assets
- Importing textures
- Importing models
- Online resources
4. 2D tricks in a 3D world
- Animated materials
- Sprites
- Inline MovieClips
5. Managing interaction
- Capturing mouse events in 3D
- Object interaction
- Texture Interaction
6. Avoiding Visual artifacts
- Distortion correcting on textures
- Advanced z-sorting
- Fullscreen triangle culling
7. Using procedural models
- Basic primitives introduction
- Using the elevation reader
- Point extrusions
- Path extrusions
8. Shading effects
- Phong/Environment/Dot3/Flat Lighting
- Creative use of Blendmodes
- Enhancing an object with filters
9. Speed optimisations
- Triangle culling & caching
- Saving geometry
- Managing multiple scenes
- Idle animations
10.Size optimisations
- Embedding assets
- Flash-ready models and textures
- Exporting to as3 classes
11. Future Away3D features
- Demos of work in production
- Information on Flash 10 upgrade
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Costs
- The cost of this 2 days training is £200 + VAT (£235).
- This includes lunch and tea/coffees throughout the day.
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All attendees with require
- Their own laptops.
- A copy of Flash CS3 installed.
- A copy of Flex Builder 3.0 or FDT 3.0 installed for editing ActionScript 3.0.
- Introductory or Intermediate level knowledge of Actionscript 3 and Flexbuilder/FDT/CS3.
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When/Where
Date: 26th-27th November 2008 ( 26/11/2008 – 27/11/2008 )
Time: 10:00 – 18:00 (doors open at 09:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican
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Booking
- To book a place on this course please contact training AT lfpug.com.
- Maximum 15 attendees.
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More info on our training philosophy can be found here
I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the Away 3D course, from meeting and being taught by Rob, to the excellent course material, to the experience of learning with other like-minded individuals.
Rob was both friendly and passionate in explaining the code and techniques clearly for everyone to understand. It was especially gratifying to have him there to answer more technical questions regarding not only concepts but actual algorithms (not all of which I would pretend to understand) behind the front-end of the framework. Highly recommended!
I’ve done a few basic projects in 3D, the 3rd dimension is always going to be a little confusing. It’s not just a Z-axis, it’s; pitch, yaw, rotation around who knows what, yUp or yDown etc…
However with 2 days of Rob at the helm, orating with clarity, lots of techniques started making sense. Concepts and Ideas started to go ‘Click’ – A wonderful feeling! Extruding, bending modifiers, height maps, vectormapping, Bezier Animating, material types… the list goes on. Loved every minute of it and a nice bunch of attendees to boot.
Thanks guys
Really good to get away from the desk to learn something useful. I\’d definitely recommend this course, so sign up to the mailing list to make sure you get early notification.