Where Rev could be going...3D?

[Viktoras Didziulis]

Hi Malte, JB, Dave, others 
 
Thanks for your replies. 
 
Malte, it is actually not your site that made the wrong impression, but an
overall impression from www.runrev.com start page. There was a banner on
arcade engine which simply mentioned "stunning graphics" and then same page
contains Revolution Spotlight On: Adventure games - Alida, and Multimedia
version of revolution including adventure game template, etc... As I am "not
a game programmer", i got the overall impression on Revolution as something
really powerful to deal with 3D and well (shame on me) I decided that
Revolution has a full featured 3D capabilities without checking all those
links and exploring each subject in detail. But maybe this is just how
advertizing is supposed to work ;-) 
 
JB, I will likely follow your suggestion and start learning writing
externals for Revolution. At least now the second tutorial on writing
externals for Rev is available. So I will likely give it a try. 
 
Dave, that was my question, it is on the shelf, but no one can take it... So
something has to happen to make it available for public. 
 
All the best! 
Viktoras 
 
 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Malte Brill 
Date: 11/23/2006 2:21:19 PM 
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com 
Subject: Re: Re: Where Rev could be going...3D? 
 
Hi Viktoras, 
 
You wrote: 
 
> Well I made my purchase in February this 
> year, and from advertiser of Arcade engine on the Revolution web 
> site I 
> understood that 3D support is not a problem. But this was not the 
> whole 
> truth about 3D in Rev... 
 
 
 
The arcadeEngine page clearly talks wireframe Objects. No hidden 
gotchas I can see there. If there is any section on the page that can 
be misread I would like to set that straight, as it is no good idea 
to promise more than one can give. What AE does is providing the 
functions to handle 3D pointlists, manipulate them (e.g. rotation 
around all 3 axes) and transform them to 2d screen representations, 
either in Isometric or 3D view. Those calculations can be used to 
either create wireframe objects or pseudo 3D representations using 
bitmaps. If you are searching for rendered, textured 3D Objects AE is 
not of much help. Just want to be clear on that, So if you think the 
AE page is not clear enough in this respect, please let me know. 
 
All the best, 
 
Malte 
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