We’re glad to announce that we’re already working hard to make Alternativa3D availiable ’till the end of May. We’re planning to open SWC-library for non-commercial use, and also preparing licenses for commercial use in any projects. We’re also creating developers portal, useful support system and on-line documentation.

Thank you everybody! Your feedback gives us energy to move forward.

First of all we would like to say that some silence in blog was connected with very hard work, part of which is our beloved 3D-engine at its 5th version. Now we can tell that new architecture was worth working on it. With a great pleasure we created these two small demos for you, to show engine abilities.

Alternativa3D tech specs:

• Signals system — only nesessary calculations;
• BSP — quality polygon sorting, “sharp” crossings;
• n-gons support;
• reusing layers (only changed regions redrawing, polygons are independent);
• objects hierarchy;
• only necessary matrix, coords and UVs recalculating;
• perspective correction — dynamic triangulation;
• collision detection.

Isometric mode was also optimized and now works much faster.

And this is not all. In a future we’ll create and implement some new features::

• dynamic lighting and shadows (point and directional lights);
• bump lighting;
• parallax mapping;
• automatic UV-mapping;
• sprites, 3D-sprites;
• sprite lighting;
• texture objects;
• Global Illumination imitation;
• sprite pre-render system (phases render on server using uploaded 3D-models);
• animation system (including inverse kinematics);
• 3D-objects interactivity;
• physics simulation.

Besides that, Alternativa3D engine is already adapted for coming Flash Player 10. Texture correction and lighting will work faster.

This technology applications are rather wide::

• 3D online first- and third person games;
• architecture visualisation;
• multyuser entertainment media;
• promo-sites;
• advertising (including “3D-banners”);
• science фand educational interactive projects.

We hope that you share our passion. It is spring outside, everything grows and develops, so we are.

We’re growing and just began to set against each other’s chair hacks. A month ago Alex Khusainov started to work with us, and yesterday we got a new face again — Andrey Kopysov.

	Alex Khusainov — java-programmer. He did server software development and support for “Uralsvyazinform” company. Now he’s working at platform server core for us.
	Andrey Kopysov — beginning but promising AS3-programmer.

In a next couple of weeks we’ll introduce another new face to you.