Awesome 3D Text with VectorVision
September 20, 2008
I love 3D in Flash, but till now I’d never been very happy with the quality of text rendering in my Papervision3D projects. Papervision is a bitmap based 3D engine and because of that not very good at rendering text.
Yesterday, I found VectorVision, which is an extension of Paperviosn3D that enables rendering vectors inside of Papervision3D. The authors Mark Barcinski & Adrien Jeanjean, have ported some of the work Mathieu Badimon did for his vector based 3D engine, Five3D, to enable vector fonts inside of Papervision. And to top that they added support for rendering any SVG in Papervision .. super cool !!
Here’s a quick example I cooked up, notice the crisp font ..
September 20th, 2008
Cool… This effect will be a lot easier if you use FP10
September 20th, 2008
@Prateek,
I don’t think so, except for the Papervision boilerplate code, most of the core code/logic will be the same.
That said, I haven’t tried rendering Text in 3D in Flash Player 10 so I’m not sure about the quality it will produce.. by default its still bitmap based fonts so probably not as good .. but once these vector fonts can be ported to use with with FP10 then the quality probably will be the same.
Mrinal
September 21st, 2008
Here is a example of a 3D text example in FP10.Its just an image, so you don’t need FP10
http://pradkl.hostbot.com/Text3D.jpg
September 21st, 2008
FP10 may allow you to use a general 3d effect, but VectorVision allows you to use text and vector images in a Papervision3D project – that’s a big distinction.
September 26th, 2008
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