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Elemental 4D

I have done my share of playing with the Flash 3D engines out there, and they are awesome and getting better with each passing day. Many will agree that while 3D in flash is very cool, it loses when it comes to making lossless vector graphics, in other words, I want my vector graphics to look the same no matter how I scale them. Enter Elemental 4D.

Elemental 4D was released last October by Bryan Grezeszak. Basically, Elemental 4D is a bill board or 2.5D engine. You can animate movie clips in 3D and they scale nicely and look pixel perfect. Doesn’t flash already do that? Not exactly. You can animate movieclips in 3D space, but Flash now converts the clip to a bitmap. As you scale the movieclip, it loses its graphic integrity. Not good when your artist wants to see exactly what he created in vector. There are some tricks that can be done to make Flash 3D work better, but why should you have to? Granted, Elemental 4D is not the fastest Flash 3D engine out there, but it makes Flash movie clips work like you would expect them to in 3D. If you have to have quality vector graphics in your presentation, and you’re simply animating movieclips in 3D, then it is really not a bad option.

Elemental 4D

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30 hand picked flash and essential actionscript 3.0 tutorials

Nice little collection of AS3 tutorials from around the web.

- 30 hand picked Flash and essential actionscript 3.0 tutorials

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