3D Configurator

Posted in xn--kfs74mzzid01b.com edit by rose on January 7th, 2009

  • I have a job request to make a helicopter cofigurator. There would be 3-5 different helicopter models to choose from, and once you choose one, you apply different colors, logos, parts, etc. The toughest part is it needs to be in 3D. Once you've configured a helicopter, it needs to create a 3D rendering on the fly and load it as a movable 3d rendering. Is this at all possible...and if so, any suggestions / links to examples? I'm more of a designer, and less a programmer, so this hopefully there is a way without crazy programming. Thanks in advance...


  • Ejewels - I'm interested to find out what your final solution was for this client?

    I'm part of a small team that make online product configurators in 3D and we use Java.
    We have played with Papervision 3D / Flash but found it not really suitable for projects of this complexity. - you can see some of our configutators here: aarkid 3D configurators (http://www.aarkid.com/3d-gallery.html)

    We'd be interested in hearing from anyone else who offers this type of service, or anyone who's seen this available anywhere else (using either flash or Java.)

    It would be good to have a more general discussion about the current and future state of interactive 3D, including any opinions from 2D artists.

    Thanks
    aarkid


  • This would take a ton of code to get working the way you've outlined - there are a few groups making flash 3D APIs, http://www.papervision3d.org/ is one of them, but its AS3 specifically for Flash player 9 I believe. They're system has "simplified" being able to make 3D items in flash, but you still have to have some serious code-skills to be able to use this.

    Short answer is no - no easy way to pull this off in flash to make true 3D models.

    You could have flat images of 4 sides of the helicopter that you could place graphics on, but there wouldn't be a way to render this to isometric views etc. very easily. And even then, you're looking at a fair amount of code to drag/drop/resize graphics on the images.







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