[Papervision3D] What's up with the Flash 10 API

[Nick Collins]

While not everyone is using AS3, the adoption rate of Flash Player 9 has
been very quick, thanks especially to sites like YouTube and MySpace who's
video players require it. I'm sure that the Flash Player 10 will have a
quick adoption rate as well. My guess will be 6 months after the public
release.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Dustin Sparks <pixelmixer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm curious how things will go with the Flash 10 version.
>
> I know it will be tons faster and I'll be all over it as soon as things are
> "playable", but considering the fact that quite a few people are just now
> adopting AS3 and CS3, how will things be updated and improved upon when the
> focus is put on flash 10, but everyone is still using 9? Will the team split
> and work partially on 9 and partially on 10? Or will 10 just be a backdoor
> kind of thing where the team just works on it when they have time and feel
> like it?
>
> Just curious, lots of questions. I'm very excited to see what kind of
> things are going to be done with 10.
>
> </Dustin
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Justin Lawerance Mills <
> JLM at justinfront.net> wrote:
>
>> John
>> [quote]
>>  Part of our problem will be to solve how we can keep from doubling up on
>> the code base versions
>> [/quote]
>>
>> any plans to take it to haXe it would be easier to have a ver that
>> compiles for both?
>> not got into doing haXe yet but it looks like a good way to go and there
>> is a sandy and away based port out there already.
>>
>> ;j
>>
>> On 4 Sep 2008, at 05:11, John Grden wrote:
>>
>> Hey Zeh, we've setup the branch so that we could start working on a
>> version of PV3D that would be flash 10 compatible.  Unfortunately, I can't
>> answer all your questions about the direction of PV3D with regards to flash
>> 10 and the future.
>>
>> I can say that we've been messing with it individually and finally got a
>> version out there that was hacked together.  Part of our problem will be to
>> solve how we can keep from doubling up on the code base versions -  Flash10
>> compatible code will not compile with Flash9 compiler.  So, there's some
>> planning there as well as implementation of the new drawTriangles(), Vector
>> objects and Matrix object that FP10 ships with.  Then, there's PixelBender
>> of course, and well, let's just say there's a TON of stuff to have fun with
>> and alot of work.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Zeh Fernando <zeh at zehfernando.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, a sort of generic question - with Flash 10's new API,
>>> drawTriangles() and whatnot, what's in store for PV3D in the future?
>>> Will it be possible for it to take advantage of the new features and
>>> become faster/more accurate, potentially either creating a version
>>> dependency or forcing it to be a bit slower to work on previous versions
>>> of Flash? Or is it all just redundant? I'm just curious as I haven't had
>>> the time to investigate the new Astro features that deeply yet and I
>>> haven't seen it discussed that much around here.
>>>
>>>
>>> Zeh
>>>
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