This term denotes a method which is used to imitate reflection of the environment on objects’ surfaces. For instance, to visualize chromium bumper of a car.

To imitate reflection we use special spherical or hemispherical (fish eye) environment maps and recalculate UV-coordinates of an object according to its position against camera.

Controls:

• Arrow keys, W, S, A, D - camera movement
• Drag mouse - look around
• Q - change quality
• Tab - debug mode

During the last weekend our friends and business partners from Chelyabinsk, company “iHeroes”, visited Perm. The purpose of the trip was studying of AlternativaPlatform technology. During the visit our specialists gave several masterclasses and lectures for “Heroes”.

Vladimir Babushkin - the leading developer of Alternativa3D — tells about the peculiarities of the library.

Alexey Kviring (server programmer) opens the “inner sanctum” to the partners — our platform.

The guests seemed to be longing for new information and got from our specialists as much knowledge as possible. This is not surprising at all: their project is entering the active phase of development.

Moscow company «Brandstudio» developed promo-site which is devoted to a new urban car model Toyota — IQ and in which our engine Alternativa3D was used.

This is a unique example of how to use 3D in website navigation. In the heart of it is a simplified simulator of a car: driving the small but smart IQ the user can view sections of the site just approaching them.

Typical features of the site: the user gets information about Toyota IQ dynamics simply using navigation, in other words, on a native level. One can’t exclude the gaming side of the navigation - view of the site becomes a jovial and pleasant occupation. Rolls and skidding of the car during big turns look rather realistic!

iq.toyota.ru

Though news on blog have become rare, the work is in full swing, tens of tasks are being solved and discussions held. Don’t want to write about everyday routine while really intriguing news are under non-disclosure agreements. Though, everything will become public within several months.

We’re developing and our staff also widens. 6 new stars have appeared in our team since the last month.

	Aleksandra Medvedeva Coordinator of the game Tanki Online. Deals with aggregators and subcontractors, keeps statistics and leads the game marketing.
	Olga Stepanova Server programmer. Worked half rate for 3 months and finally decided to fully join the staff.
	Sergey Spesivov Responsible for 3D-modeling and texturing.
	Mikhail Yarusov 2D-designer — from icons to websites for current and future projects.
	Fedor Kulikov Application programmer of broad specialization.
	Grigory Bolotov Methodologist. Thoroughly studies Alternativa Platform technologies and passes his experience through documentation and other training aids.

Discussions are now held in the office since there’s no space for all of us in the negotiation room.

The tallest person in the team now is not Aleksey Kviring but Fedor Kulikov.

Our good friends from “Multivitamin” combined Tanki Online and their touchscreen, thus organizing multi-touch support on Flash 10.1. The legendary player Sun took part in the video.

In fact, this horrible word means changing of texture’s resolution depending on camera distance (for detailed info view Wikipedia). The strategy helps to get rid of noise on long-distance objects and greatly increases drawing performance.

Three years ago (01.12.06) we registered Alternativa Game LLC, brought the documents into the office and somebody noted that the 1st of December should be the company birthday.

During those days we went to different instances there and back, scheduled the plans, calculated expenses and were really somehow confused - everything happened for the first time.

On that day our project tankionline.com made a present to us - the number of players was more than 100 000.
Miracle or coincidence?

Alternativa Platform Company performed as the gold sponsor at FlashGAMM conference which took place on the 5-6th of December in Kyiv. Besides, the company’s CEO Alexandr Vladimirovich Karpovich and CTO Anton Alekseevich Volkov reported at the conference about economic and technical nuances of work on technological platform.

“Community of Flash-game developers are close and valuable people, with whom we jointly discover new type of games which is gaining popularity - 3D browser multiplayer realtime games on Flash” -  it was mentioned in the press-centre of the company and then everybody was invited to tea.

The ceremony of Russian Flash Awards was held on October, 24, during Russian Internet Week.

Apart from the awards “Technical achievement” and “Game” known to us, we were taken by surprise when got the “Grand Prix” for “the best project presented at the contest during its lifetime”.

Last year the award looked like a neutralized grenade framed in a brick, thus the guys had some problems in the airport. This year customs examination was followed by the words “you have the bag filled with some odd stuff”.

I must admit, to write a message about yourself seems kind of weird, but interesting as well.

My name is Eugenia Startseva and I’m a newcomer at “Alternativa”. My job is to sell licences to russian and foreign developers - very captivating activity!

If you are interested, write to startseva@alternativaplatform.com

send message on http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniastartseva

or ask in skype jane.startseva

Thanks for your attention!