After struggling to master the recently released, open-source Sandy 3D API for Flash, I’ve decided to take another look at 3D programming in Director. Sandy appealed to me because it allowed real-time 3D in Flash. It was also appealing to have access to the source code and thus complete and precise programmatic control. The Sandy 3D API is very impressive. It blows away every other 3D programming effort in Flash that I’ve ever seen. Perhaps most importantly of all, the Flash plug-in has more market penetration than the Director plug-in. But I’ve found Sandy difficult to learn – more so than I had expected. This may reflect more upon me than upon Sandy.

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