Needing opinion on application idea

torleif · Post by **torleif** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:33 am

Would you use a program that made 3d media for browsers?

My idea is for an Adobe flash like application that makes files that can be embedded in web pages. The difference is that hardware rendering will be used, and thus 3d objects will be easy to make. Combining SDL, irrlicht(?) and lua would archive this easy. I have written a small demo to test this (not with irrlicht yet, it uses SDL to draw), and results so far look good.

An open source competitor to Adobes flash would be good at this time, as AS3 is putting many developers off with it's blatant java rip off.

I would prefer an ECMAScript too lua, but it's easiest to implement. If people show interest in this program I'd like to change it.

What are your thoughts on this idea? Would such an IDE appeal to you?

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:21 pm

Say, how's Java3D doing these days? Taken the world by storm yet?

torleif · Post by **torleif** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:48 pm

Good point. I'd never heard of Java3d. However my idea was for an IDE, not an API.

wyrmmage · Post by **wyrmmage** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:00 am

rogerborg wrote:Say, how's Java3D doing these days? Taken the world by storm yet?

I tried that once...just getting it properly embedded inside of an applet was horrible XD

That being said, the next version of flash already has 3D functions with partial hardware-rendering. Still, the world could use a good implementation of 3D in a web-browser, so if you're interested, I'd say go for it

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:46 pm

Hey look at this (Click somewhere to get focus then use arrow keys to move)

Yeah, I'm just trying to confuse you guys

On the AS3 topic, the Flex SDK is open source and on the Flash player side Adobe is being quite open-source friendly with the Tamarin Project.

Ofcourse you should continue with your project, you never know as there is no current leading standard for hardware accelerated browser graphics at the moment, although Adobe has plans for that too I think.

Cheers