Archive for September, 2008

Reflective surfaces

22.09.2008 Mikhail Fominykh

As an experiment we have tried to implement simple flat mirrors. This demo shows the result.

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Retrospective — Liza Sharikova

18.09.2008 Ivan Zykov

We’d like to go a lil’bit into history and tell you the reason that we started to pay attention to (almost) massively multiplayer worlds based on Flash.

In 2004, by the order of Moscow singer and model Liza Sharikova and fashion group Fresh Art we began to work on a virtual city. Users had to have an ability to choose their avatar, walk on the streets, communicate each other and learn about Liza’s works by entering her virtual house.

We had some experience of using Flash as a client for multiuser system, so we didn’t consider this as a crazy task.

We didn’t meet any reasonable deadlines, but finally we got nice and good-working virtual city, along with the indispensable and unique for that time experience.

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lizasharikova.com
It is not working under Flash Player 10 yet (it’s year 2004, don’t be angry ).

Ah, the website is made in Russian, sorry.

Architectural visualization with Alternativa3D

04.09.2008 Ivan Zykov

Here’s an example of using Alternativa3D on a construction company or real estate agency website. This is a demonstration of non-existent neighbourhood and it’s infrastructure. Clear, isn’t it?

The presentation version is here: alternativaplatform.com/en/demos/altcity

When showing this demo to builders, we always hear: “Who and when can create such a thing for our project?” Mass production is not our goal, so this is a task for our partner studios. If you have enough experience and will to create such products, please drop us a letter with brief company information and links to your works.

What is necessary to be able to create such projects?

  • Accurate low-poly 3d model with good baked textures. Modeling tricks for flash we’ll explain in separate tutorial soon.
  • Flasher (ActionScript3 programmer), who can create additional features: user interface, windows with comments, switching to appartaments planning et cetera according to customer needs.
  • Alternativa3D (you can get licence from us)

From our side we provide interesting discounts, attentive tech support, co-op marketing events. Call or write us to get into details of partnership program.

Good quality works will be also published here with developers’ contact information.

We begin to post source code for demos

02.09.2008 Ivan Zykov

We decided to begin posting our demos’ source code on a website. Download links are at Alternativa3D page. We hope that will help you to get into technology details.

Source code has english comments for better understanding.