The final hurdle

one important part of my application will be how you create 3d objects to be added into the world. i have decided that i will create a seperate ’sandbox’ for the creation and manipulation of  3dobjects before they are added and positioned in the world.

features that i am planning to implement in this are:

• select an object from away3d’s primitives to manipulate and apply textures to.
• adjust the size and shape and rotation of the primitives main parameters e.g. radius for spheres, height,width and depth for cubes and so on.
• ability to apply different material types such as:
  • bitmap materials
  • video(flv) materials
  • basic colour materials
• apply filter effects to the shape - that could also be linked to the sound track the object is assciated with in max/msp to more tightly link the visuals with the audio stream.
• associate a sound track in max/msp with the object.
• ability to add movement animations to the object there are two options for this
  • have a set of predefined animations to select from and apply to the object
  • create some sort of path plotting tool that lets the user plot the objects movement in 3d space.

If the time allows i will also make a stand alone version of this object creator to use to simply test how materials look on objects and exprot the configorations to xml to be imported into other projects using my app, this would allow more reuseability of objects created with it and let the user build up a base collection of objects for use in their projects made using the application.