Today’s article presents a collection of procedurally-generated 3D shapes for Stage3D. In addition to spheres and cylinders, I’ve added circles, pyramids, cubes, and quads to the mix and refactored them all to inherit from a new Shape3D class. Read on for the full source code for all of these as well as a demo app.
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The most common way to obtain the geometry of a 3D model is from a file output from a modeling package like 3D Studio Max, Maya, or Blender, but it’s not the only way. In the case of simpler forms of geometry it is practical to generate it yourself using AS3 code. When you do this you eliminate the needed download and gain the flexibility to scale up or down the complexity of the model on a whim. Today’s article shows some AS3 code to generate spheres for all kinds of uses: planets in space simulators, placeholders for debugging physics simulations, and whatever else you can dream up.