Closeup on a cute couple

Warning: This may take a while to load. The models are over half a meg combined, and parsing them takes a little bit of time when the flash file gets loaded.


Now, as you can see, we finally have textures on the models. Simone and I finally gave up on creating textures in Maya and trying to save them in Collada format, and just textured the Boids inside Papervision. Would you believe that it's as simple as
var warmBody:PhongMaterial;
var warmWings:PhongMaterial;
var warmGlow:PhongMaterial;

warmBody = new PhongMaterial(light, 0xCCCCCC, 0x886600, 64);
warmWings = new PhongMaterial(light, 0xCCCCCC, 0xCC7700, 32);
warmGlow = new PhongMaterial(light, 0xFFFFFF, 0x444466, 0);

var WarmList:MaterialsList = new MaterialsList();
WarmList.addMaterial(warmBody, "body");
WarmList.addMaterial(warmWings, "wings");
WarmList.addMaterial(warmGlow, "glow");

warmFish = new Collada("bot1.dae", WarmList);

The whole mess of trying to load textures from the Collada file just got to be too much of a hassle.

The models and textures both need a little more fine tuning. You can see some static where polygons overlap and the renderer has to pick which one to draw. Boolean difference operations should fix all of those. The textures just need a little more tuning, maybe we'll try out gouraud shading for the next batch.

Also of interest, tonights flash file is actually built with FlashDevelop. My copy of Flash is about to expire, being the trial version, and I wanted to make sure I could rebuild everything with the free IDE and SDK. While I'll miss the default tweener, I think I can migrate everything else to the completely free system.