[3D debris]

[pwdVergesser]

I´ve played a bit with Flash10 new 3D-features. So here´s my first release called "debris pattern". So this pattern is fragmented into 42 individual 3d cubes (the amount of cubes is adjustable on demand), each one rotates distinctly, moves along the Z-axis, and all these processes perform by having ~40 fps constantly (pretty fast I think).

The whole snippet would remain on that limit if I wouldn´t plug several filters and blendMode´s on it. Lastly, I couldn´t deny to add my smudge shader-filter (http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/05/30/smudge/) (activate it with a mouse-click on stage), and this factor bursts every performance… but still looks interesting.

http://www.dasprinzip.com/pExamples/p77_1.jpg (http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/12/04/debris-pattern/)
Launch. (http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/12/04/debris-pattern/)


After all, the one thing that´s a bit sadly is the clipping when z-sorting the pattern - it appeals very clumsy. I mean, you can see that each single cube is actually flat… “But Hey”, you can´t have everything.


Cheers.
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[prototype]

On my older laptop I'm getting 3-4 fps. Interesting experiment but I don't know if it would be useful. I didn't see a link for the source.

[Sirisian]

Yeah my work computer is getting 1 fps. You must have a fast computer.

[Templarian]

22-27FPS when its regular. Shimmer I drop to 10-13FPS.

I think this is a time your suppose to be using the new blend features (I haven't used them, but they use the video card so you won't get the slow down).

[pwdVergesser]

22-27FPS when its regular. Shimmer I drop to 10-13FPS.

I think this is a time your suppose to be using the new blend features (I haven't used them, but they use the video card so you won't get the slow down).

...new blend features - didn´t know there were new one´s ???

[Templarian]

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbender/

Sorry I meant "bender", don't know why I said blend. May be complicated to implement, but from examples I've seen it uses the GPU so there would be no frame lag.

[pwdVergesser]

ohhh... you meant Pixel Bender. Well, I did a bunch of Shaders myself on Adobe´s Pixel Bender Exchange (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=authorExtensions&authorid=67919003).

So, I can tell you, even PB-Jobs slow down when it comes to many processor-heavy executions within Flash, just like it use to be in my 3D debris pattern (http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/12/04/debris-pattern/).

You can take the built-in "shimmer mode" as proof for that, ´cause shimmer is a Pixel Bender Shader I´ve written wich runs quite fast, but slows down rapidly when added on top of all the processed 3d cubes within Flash.

[final_end]

very cool and impressive pwd

[senocular]

Pretty cool.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure a WMODE of GPU does not work with the new 3D features in Flash Player 10.


Correction: 3D "works" with GPU, but GPU doesn't accelerate 3D. But I did notice your exmple is falling back to direct out of GPU and that was actually the result of a blend mode.

[pwdVergesser]

Correction: 3D "works" with GPU, but GPU doesn't accelerate 3D. But I did notice your exmple is falling back to direct out of GPU and that was actually the result of a blend mode.

Your right. I´m using a blendMode.Hardlight on all cubes to smarten up the textures. I already mentioned in my origin blogpost (http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/12/04/debris-pattern/) that without filters and blendMode´s, the pure 3d api runs with ~40fps, so that indeed is a very fast result. ;)

[Gathan]

Interesting experiment, but its running at about 5 fps.
So I don't see it having any real production value beyond the experiment stage, maybe in the future when flashs rendering improves drastically, but not now.

[pwdVergesser]

Interesting experiment, but its running at about 5 fps.
So I don't see it having any real production value beyond the experiment stage, maybe in the future when flashs rendering improves drastically, but not now.

as I explained, it runs so slow ´cause of the blendMode, wich isn´t really needed in here (just used it to style the textures). Without the blendMode, the whole snippet runs ~40fps... so I think there are some applicabilities. ;)

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