3d games in flash

Published by: jane 2010-03-15

hey ya'll

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so i am currently working on two 3d games and ill post em as soon as they are finished, in the meanwhile i wanted to see if there is anyone who has made a 3d game in flash ( ive never seen a game that is completely in 3d on the web made in flash)

so if you know where to find examples, or have one of your own post em!

In Flash, for a 3D game environment, often youd be dealing with flat movieclips positioned in a 3D space, much like the figures in some of the earlier 3D examples. As I've mentioned a few times in the tutorials, Flash can't handle much in terms of polignal rendering. So don't expect a quake anytime soon ;) A "good" 3D game would incorporate 2D elementes pre-rendered in 3D (from something like Swift3D) positioned in a 3D environment in Flash... or even a 2D environment. As long as you have 3D-looking imagery, the game can be pretty much considered 3D.

A game rendered fully 3D in Flash would need to be a simple one. Probably a puzzle game - something like a rubix cube spinning in the middle of the screen or something. You could also take the approach of rendering more complex elements on the fly but not continuously render them every frame. Render them once, keep them that way and then move them as a static movieclip from there. This could be used on something like a chess game. Allow the board to be moved and rotated, but only render the pieces at the end of each rotation (not during - maybe just show the board then) That way the pieces can be complex and the only slowdown you'll encounter is in that one frame following a board rotation which is basically negligible at that point.

I was working on a 3D fighter for a while there. I have nothing to show though. It actually became a little much for Flash to handle with the bone heirarchy I had going on - even with just using stick figures. I might come back to it though. It was fun to work on.

I was screwing around with some stuff, its not real 3d, but if you have a whole bunch of movie clips and you position them right and do a whole lot of x, y scale stuff you can hack out a simple (not too beautiful) first person engine, Im going to try out my ideas on this as soon as Im done with what Im working on now. if I ever do this, Ill post a link to it.

youre right, in fact, that is what I have been doing, prerendered objects in a 3d environment.

I expect to post a 3d first person shooter prototype some time soon so you can tell me what you think

Cool! :) just for kicks, heres a simple little doom knockoff I whipped up in about an hour a couple of years ago :D

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tmccau1/flash/test/doom.swf

3D Game, awesome ! =) I'm sorry, I haven't seen a 3D game in Flash yet ... oh wait, yes I have: it was something with evil penguins you had to shoot. You were in a forest and there were penguins with weapons and you had to shoot them. I can't remember where it's at though, sorry :(

wow that doom game is really cool!

with my game ill have to stall because i still dont have any enemies and ive been having really weird problems with redrawing walls

most of the time was just trying to find friggen doom images :P I couldnt find a full imp death animation. you can see how I cheated that a little bit when they die :blush:

That was fun! I still played it for a while even though health doesn't work:) Doom was always one of my favorite games. If I could 'whip up stuff' in about an hour - oh the fun I would have. :)