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I
found out some time ago that QuickTime could play Flash SWF files. Are
Flash Player and plugins the quickest way to play a file created by
Sandy? If I use Flex to create the file, is it faster at compiling? Can
I play the file from Flex and would that be faster than Flash Player?
How good are the projected speed increases for Sandy 2 and 3?
When
it's all designed and programmed, it does not matter that's 3D. Unless
you use something like Holography or 3D Parallax Viewing, you will only
be generating 2D content on a computer screen. The question is, how
fast and with what features will Flash continue to grow? Can it rival
the big game interfaces or games engines such as W.O.W.?
Is
Flash the future of 3D developement for Adobe or is there a better
method to create a real-time architecture walkthrough than using 3D is
Flash.
I am only asking these questions because I want to devote
some time to learning more about Sandy and Actionscript. I want to
learn something with a future. I find all this programming and
developing to be quite tedious and time consuming. I am not big on
coding and this is mostly that, but I find Sandy to be very cool
indeed. Should I be learning Java3D, OpenGL, DirectX, or C+ instead of
learning Sandy and Actionscript?
Hi,
I'm
not sure QuickTime runs Flash player nicely. It should be somehow a
kind of integration as navigators do. But I must admit I don't have
information on that subject.
Adobe seems to take care of 3D in
Flash recently. But we are far from having something fast enough to
create some real games etc. Adobe will hesitate I guess between the old
macromedia technology : shockwave which has hardware acceleration.
I
think that AS3 has a future on the web. It you don't want to create
some big 3D games, or really complex stuff, Flash is a good platform
from now for many reasons : language easy to learn, API quite simple.
Learning
C++ (I come from industrial world, so mainly C language) and OpenGL is
much more longer and harder. But i the mean time it allows more things.
So I would say it just depend on your goals.
Best
Thomas
If
you find programming to be tedious and time consuming, you either need
to study it (read a book, take a course, etc.) to improve your
productivity, or find a different career. Perhaps you are better suited
to 3D graphics using Studio Max. I found 3D drawing tedious, and
realized I preferred programming, so I got into that angle of it.
You
shouldn't bother with Java3D, OpenGL, DirectX, or C+ instead of
ActionScript. They are harder and more time-consuming. The primary
issue is playback on the web. In that case, Flash Player is far and
away the best choice due to its ubiquity and cross-browser and
cross-platform consistency. Nothing else even comes close (95%
penetration).
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