ShiVa Flash 11 engine preview

[NiCoX]

Hi all,

As you may know, we are working for some months on the ShiVa Flash 11 engine. Though it is not fully ready yet, most of the hard work is now behind us. So as we are not so far from a first beta, I wanted to start sharing with you some demos. My plan is to post various demos in this thread, starting with 3 basic applications taken from the ShiVa 1.9.x samples:

1. the "Fire" demo: http://developer.stonetrip.com/Download/Flash/Fire.html, showing:
- lightmapped environment
- per pixel dynamic lighting (point light)
- spherical texture mapping (on the ball)
- particles

2. the "SimpleProjector" demo: http://developer.stonetrip.com/Download/Flash/SimpleProjector.html, showing:
- lightmapped environment
- vertex colors (on the ball)
- projected textures

3. the "MeshMorphing" demo: http://developer.stonetrip.com/Download/Flash/MeshMorphing.html, showing:
- dynamic mesh deformation
- per pixel normal mapped specular lighting (directional light)

So, no "kicking the ass" demo for now, but hey, it's running in the Flash player!

Obviously, all samples have been exported "as-is" from ShiVa and injected in the UAT in order to create the SWF and HTML files.

Known limitations (that will be fixed for the final release):
- you'll need Flash 11 installed, and a compatible graphic card/driver (you won't be prompted to install/upgrade)
- engine initialization time is long and your browser may look like "frozen" during 10-20 seconds

More demos to come, including GPU skinning, advanced shaders, render to texture, etc.

[feng3d]

Great!!

[makkar]

This is unbelievable!

[_geo_]

wohoo

[giggsy]

Nice!

Keep it comin'

[broozar]

though flash11 is installed and i see the loading bar, the site stops at "initializing" on my tegra3 tablet (ICS). is it x86 only for the time being?

[NiCoX]

though flash11 is installed and i see the loading bar, the site stops at "initializing" on my tegra3 tablet (ICS). is it x86 only for the time being?

Hehe made the same test on the PlayBook, and got the same results. To be honest I did not look further, but it may be possible that Stage3D API is currently not available on mobile devices.

[psychicsoftware]

Very cool! Is the performance on those demos representative of how it's going to be? I'm getting a very poor frame rate versus the same demos running in the Shiva IDE.

[NiCoX]

Is the performance on those demos representative of how it's going to be?

No, we still have lot of Flash specific optimizations to do.

I'm getting a very poor frame rate

All those 3 demos are running at 60fps on an old Mac Mini (Intel Core 2 Duo). Did you enable hardware acceleration? (right click > settings)

Now, I know that Flash Player 11.1 does not enable hardware acceleration on GPU drivers that were released before 2009. They will support 2008 drivers with Flash 11.2. Maybe it's your case...

Let me know.

[redmotion]

Sweet.

Is that particle system based on the v2 system? I've played a lot with the 1.9 and can't work out how that one was done, so I'm guessing it features some of the new features maybe? Basically, I ask because the back red halo seems to appear as a single form rather than many particles.

Thanks, looking really promising.

PS: on the projector scene I'm getting around 45 fps. (hardware acc on, GTX 570, nvidia driver 275.33)

PPS: What formats can be exported from the UAT and can we customise the loading/initialising screen?

[NiCoX]

on the projector scene I'm getting around 45 fps. (hardware acc on, GTX 570, nvidia driver 275.33)

Weird, should be 60... what is your browser (and version)?

What formats can be exported from the UAT and can we customise the loading/initialising screen?

Currently, are exported:
- MyApp.html
- MyApp.swf
- MyApp_Loader.swf

But we'll also provide a "Flex project" export, including the engine SWC and the main/loader source files (so as usual). And it will also be possible to customize the splash screen directly from the UAT, without the need to create a project.

[ThunderZ]

This is awesome !!!!

[redmotion]

Ah ha! You deftly avoided my v2 questions! Anyway, Firefox 10.0.1. Latest version, I think. Shockwave Flash plugin is 11.1.102.55.

EDIT: Mesh morpher and fire demos have a consistent 60 fps

EDIT2: After staring at the fire a bit more, I think I know what you did. The texture is doing most of the work, while the colour change over time is doing the rest. Nice Effect!

[pataya]

she give smile

[mal_CanDo]

Nice work - on those demos, a simple change like making the camera rotating around automatically would help make them look a lot more impressive looking, 3D wise.