Comments on: Hot news; Adobe announces Flash 10 “Astro”

By: stef

stef — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:52:57 +0000

I agree with you, if the text works correctly now, it will be the major feature of this release. I think most of us lost so much time on those text problems…

By: Rostislav Siryk

Rostislav Siryk — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:26:42 +0000

If they will make working with text really good, this will help everyone who works with Flash to finally achieve the worth markup without numerous hacks

By: Cedric

Cedric — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:13:46 +0000

Hydra seems to be an ideal to work with based-texture effects in PV3D !

Thx for the news Ralph.

By: Zeh

Zeh — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:55:51 +0000

Highly revelant is the link posted by joa e. on the same thread:

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIF_Toolkit

Contains more information about Hydra and AIF, as well as a downloadable AIF toolkit/demo (that seems to run on Pixel Shader 3.0 cards only?).

By: Jon B

Jon B — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:07:55 +0000

Hydra does indeed sound very cool, however I assume this will a compile time feature and not a runtime feature – still, I can imagine some impressive PV3D materials being created

The 3D support does sound interesting too – I was half expecting Adobe to approach PV3D for inclusion. Even if the only thing adobe adds is native ‘distort’ that would presumably make a huge difference to the speed that current AS-based 3D engines run at.

By: Den Ivanov

Den Ivanov — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:57:41 +0000

WOW. This is look reaaly hot. Cant wait for more news about it.