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[_] 3d Engines

Richard Davey rich at corephp.co.uk
Fri Jun 20 22:20:04 BST 2008

Hi Duck,

Friday, June 20, 2008, 4:37:48 PM, you wrote:

RD>> All Flash 9 3D engines use software rendering, they have absolutely no
RD>> access to any 3D hardware that may be present in the machine.

> Don't forget Shockwave ("Adobe Shockwave" now). Yes, it's a bit long
> in the tooth, but Adobe are actively developing it.

Sure, but then we're not talking about Flash anymore :)

Director has done 3D for ages now, and is still the only true way
(that doesn't involve Java), but it just doesn't have the adoption
rate that Flash does, and I doubt ever will.

Cheers,

Rich
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