Of Bluesky Syndrome

Today Andy and I have been discussing a project we are going to be working. This being a virtual sports center. We are currently looking into how we can present it. I've been doing research into 3D rendering within Flash, as we think Flash will be the best way forward for an interface base.

As Flash doesn't natively support 3D I have been looking at ways of achieving 3D in Flash. It is possible to fake 3D within Flash with the use of maths, and this would be a basic and ideal way of presenting what we want to do without overloading the browser and bandwidth. An excellent tutorial on it can be found here.


However, an open source program I found looks even better, in fact it can produce some amazing 3D work, all rendered in real time. It's called PaperVision3D.

Their blog can be found here. It has loads of information about it as it's being developed. It produces better and better quality visuals as the project progresses. It even has interactivity within it on a 3D scale, demo here.

However, although all this is amazing stuff I don't think we will be going 3D for now, but a simple 2D interface will be used.

Apart from the cool stuff we've been looking at we are still getting ready for the start of term. Still assigning staff to their units, etc. Also been working on the placement website for the SM (Services Management) school. Thats almost complete, just waiting on content really now. Everything is getting set for moving into the new term! I'll have to start practicing the presentation for the BlackBoard inductions we have to do as well soon!!