All I can say is wow. Some of the examples in Andre Michelle’s source files are really nice. He has even included some simple examples of 3d worlds, UV mapping onto objects amoung other cool examples. Everyone in the flash comunity pretty much knows who this man is because he (and a handfull of others) pioneered the slice based engines of games amoung other things.

So if you have some time (for those of you on dail up 7Mb) and want to have a quick look at the things soon to come go check out Andre’s blog and download the sources. Start playing and let me know if you make anything cool as I love this stuff. I work for a company who is all about 3d. I work for Righthemisphere.com makers of Deep Paint, the 3d engine in Acrobat 7, Deep Explorer and many other cool apps. I work on "Deep Server" especially the web interface. So Im really excited to see some cool 3d examples finally coming out of flash that will be useable. I previously came from Arcad.co.nz, a multimedia/3d media creator primarily focusing on the construction market. And before that I worked at Trimble GPS….and before that TVNZ doing camera and editing….and…..and..(even was a parachute packer in there somewhere.)

 This is why the Max-Maya deal surprised and to some degree disapointed me. But when it comes down to it I am a lightwave and more recently a Modo kinda person. But at the end of the day these softwares are just tools and it takes creativity to make the cool stuff. The sort of creativity and smarts Andre shows.

Another Flash 3d engine I have been keeping an eye on is E3d at Flashworx. This one stays pretty true to its real world counterparts in terms of coding transformation matrix’s etc. Pretty cool too!