Now we have a 3D Flash Physics Engine. There is already some basic physics support in Away3D but this one looks much more promising. It’s based on several famous open source flash products. It extends the APE 2D Physics Engines and uses Papervision3D for rendering.
The Flash Components Network is a marketplace where you can find many simple but useful tools for your flash projects. Most of the listed items are commercial but the average price is really modest.
Sprout is a service that allows anyone to quickly and easily build, publish and manage sophisticated multimedia content, including widgets, mini-sites, mashups and more.
The ActionScript 3.0 3D Carousel component allows you to display collections of DisplayObjects (images, MoveClips, etc) in a 3D carousel view.
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Adobe Media Player brings the best of both the broadcast television and web video worlds to your desktop. This second prerelease version includes a new UI, many new features, and compatibility with the latest Adobe AIR beta 3 runtime.
Lee Felarca demonstrates great kinematics flash application based on Papervision3D. Just check this smooth interactive model.
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Fantastic developers from Aviary are almost ready to present their stunning flex based tools for designers. We’ll be able to choose between designing right in a browser window and downloading an AIR version and running it on the desktop.
Away3D team showcases their product with few websites that use Away3D as it gains power, speed, and popularity. This is a realtime 3D engine for flash written in ActionScript 3, originally derived from Papervision3D. Away3D engine is designed to be fast and extensible.
A pretty original tool for Flash designers, which allows you to automate the creation of inverse kinematic animation.
Motion & Color Inc. open-sourced a public beta version of Wrapper, formerly used for closed-sourced projects. Wrapper is a cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript.
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