Most content on the web today is in 2D, but a lot of information is more fun and useful in 3D. Projects like Google Earth and SketchUp demonstrate our passion and commitment to enabling users to create and interact with 3D content. We’d like to see the web offering the same type of 3D experiences that can be found on the desktop. That’s why, a few weeks ago, we announced our plans to contribute our technology and web development expertise to the discussions about 3D for the web within Khronos and the broader developer community.

Allen Partridge, Adobe Systems, hosts professional 3D game developers Pieter Albers and Diederick Groesbeek, Xform Games, Malachy Duffin, CanDo Interactive, Steve Becerra and Richard Chala, Mockworld, and David Mullich, Spin Master demonstrating & discussing design and development strategies for creating profitable, high-performance games for the web. Topics include technology challenges, design approach, business advantage & browser-based 3D.

I wonder if Director 11.5 will get shown at that time? Hmm…fits in well with the April 4th shipping date on Amazon.

Be sure to check out the case study.

We invite you to the 3. Director Live Online Meeting, which will take place on Tuesday, July 15th @ 10am EDT.

The topic(s) will be:
* Future of Shockwave3D
* Q&A and community chat

There will be quite a few guys from Adobe attending such as Allen, Rajnish, Vivek, Krishnan, and potentially some more from the Shockwave3D team.

The meeting room will be open from 1 hour before the official start and will remain open for discussion 1 hour after the end of the meeting.

The meeting URL:

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/directorforum

Note:
If you want to talk to the community during the meeting, make sure you have a microphone and a headset to avoid echo and allow the Flash plugin to access your microphone when prompted.

If you want to present (screen-share) during the meeting you will need to install the Adobe Connect Plugin when prompted to do so.

You don’t need to speak or share your screen though. The meeting will have a text chat to communicate.

Time Zones:
7:00am – Los Angeles
10:00am – New York
3:00pm – London
4:00pm – Berlin
7:30pm – India
0:00am – Sydney (Tue->Wed night)

Click here for other time zones.

This announcement on Directorforum:
http://www.directorforum.com/showthread.php?t=1672

Cheers,
Martin

It discuses Maid Marian Entertainment and how they use the 3D features of Director/Shockwave to create massive multiplayer online games (Sherwood Dungeon in particular). I know I loved Dungeons & Dragons when I was a bit younger

Howdy -

For a conference we were hosting in Albuquerque this week, I presented a session on Shockwave3D game development, and now that the conference is over, I wanted to share the related documents I created for the session.

There are 53 pages of introductory tutorials and discussion about developing games for Shockwave3D, spread among four documents:

Creating 3D Educational Games (6 pgs)
Introduction to Low-Polygon 3D Modeling for Games (12 pgs)
Introduction to Low-Polygon Game Asset Texturing (15 pgs)
Introduction to 3D Game Scripting (20 pgs)

Most of this content will be too basic for the gurus out there, but it might be of interest to newcomers or for educators looking to help others get started. (The first document acts as an overview and introduction to the other three. Most of the people on these lists can skip it, but I’m including it for completeness’ sake.)

Cheers,
CC

You can get the tutorials at his Shockwave3D Developer’s Guide site. Fantastic stuff.