Archive for February, 2008

Away3d - developing bitmap rendering

Last few days I've been working a lot on the refactoring the whole rendering pipeline on Away3d to enable custom rendersessions, e.g. BitmapDataRendering. Most of the clitches are done but I've yet some work to do. Nothing to show yet, but keep tuned, I'll come out with something cool soon.

Away3d - Working on bitmap renderer

I finally got myself to rework again on the bitmap rendering, particles now support it, soon should everything else support it too. Heres a demo for you, note how much smoother it is compared to previous version using BasicRenderer:

Quick testing with Away3d + Depth of field effect

As you can see, rendering to sprites is slow because of alpha blending bug when having hundreds of sprites with very low alpha values.