by Grant Skinner

Simple Flash Player 10 3D Demo w/ Source

Here’s a simple tech demo showing a 3D music visualizer using the flash player 10’s new 3D APIs, with a rotating sphere that transitions into a disc using GTween. Nothing too complex, but the result is kind of neat, and it is simple enough to serve as a quick entry into using the new APIs if you’re getting started. It also uses the new Vector type in player 10.

To me its cool that you can now whip out simple 3D content right in Flash in a matter of minutes, and then step up to the big guns with PaperVision 3D or Away 3D as necessary.

I’ll be sharing some of the other simple 3D experiments I’ve been working on over the coming weeks.

Flash Player 10 is required to see this experiment.

You can download the source code here. Just throw any MP3 into the folder with the SWF, and call it “music.mp3”. It’s set up for Flash CS4, but there is no code or assets in the FLA, so you should be able to compile it as an ActionScript project in Flex.

Grant Skinner

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30 Comments

  1. dVyper October 30, 2008 at 10:51am

    I’m not able to view the SWF. I think you may have to change the Flash player version detection.

  2. Grant Skinner October 30, 2008 at 10:54am

    Fixed now. It was working on Safari, but not anything else. It was an issue with using a self closing script tag: <script … />, switching it to use a closing tag fixed it.

  3. ljones October 30, 2008 at 11:13am

    SICK. Very inspirational, thanks Grant.

  4. Nathan Youngman October 30, 2008 at 11:27am

    Awesome. Thanks again for providing source code.

  6. federico October 30, 2008 at 11:56am

    stunning

  7. lee October 30, 2008 at 12:08pm

    That’s crazy son! Nice creative work

  8. Garth Braithwaite October 30, 2008 at 12:27pm

    Awesome example. I’ve been waiting for more examples of FP10.

  10. jankees October 30, 2008 at 1:09pm

    Wow, that’s some cool shit!

  11. Charly October 30, 2008 at 2:24pm

    Awesome…thx

    Greetings from Berlin

  12. Kevin Suttle October 30, 2008 at 2:35pm

    If you didn’t rule before, you rule so much for using my boy DJ Shadow. Six Days Remix WIN.

  14. Eddie October 30, 2008 at 7:07pm

    This is totally awesome.

  15. old9 October 30, 2008 at 8:18pm

    Cool….Thanks for sharing this~

  17. Tom Chapin October 30, 2008 at 9:48pm

    Totally awesome tech demo! Thanks for sharing the code!

    For what it’s worth, I whipped up a version that spins with the mouse position:

    http://www.tchapin.com/archive/flash-10-demo/

  18. FSB October 31, 2008 at 2:38am

    Structure looks like virus 🙂 Very nice job!

  19. ozgur uksal October 31, 2008 at 8:43pm

    appreciated for the source codes

  21. BlueF November 1, 2008 at 3:42am

    this is REALLY cool!!!

  22. Savvas Malamas November 1, 2008 at 5:00am

    Nice example and nice choice of song 😉

  24. Kasper November 3, 2008 at 1:34pm

    Awesome!!

  25. Ian November 3, 2008 at 3:54pm

    Good job, man. Now try and recreate Robert Hodgin’s visualizer from Flash Forward. 🙂

  27. mrm November 14, 2008 at 8:02am

    Not visible in Opera

  28. Andrew Christensen November 14, 2008 at 2:01pm

    Wow, nice example and great tunes! Thanks for the source, it would be great to add some colorization effects to this.

  29. Chad Upton November 24, 2008 at 12:59pm

    Grant, it was cool to see this and finally meet you at MAX.

  30. tox March 2, 2009 at 3:20pm

    awesome stuff, thx a lot for sharing 🙂

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