Swift will create 3D flash files.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Terry Hancock</b> <<a href="mailto:hancock@anansispaceworks.com">hancock@anansispaceworks.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dustin Laurence wrote:<br><br>>Does anyone know a simple 3-D animation application? "Simple" means
<br>>that all it has to do is animate simple geometric shapes for a quick<br>>project.<br>><br>>Blender came to mind, but it's just *way* overpowered for this, and it<br>>might cost too much time to learn for something that is supposed to go
<br>>into a *power*oint presentation. Or, maybe not, I don't know anything<br>>about it except that it exists. Anyway, suggestions welcome.<br>><br>><br>This really depends on what you need. For simple presentation
<br>stuff, I often find it easier to draw what I want in a 2D vector<br>editor (Inkscape, Skencil, OO.o Draw, Karbon14).<br><br>OpenOffice.org Draw in particular has a tool called the "3D controller"<br>that can do some simple projected-shapes. If that's all you need,
<br>it will be much simpler than doing true 3D.<br><br>True 3D is intrinsically both hard and very powerful. It's true<br>that Blender presents a harsh learning curve for newcomers,<br>but at least some of the problem is just that it's a conceptually
<br>hard task to begin with.<br><br>Other possibilities that come to mind are to hand-code POVRay<br>models or use something like VPython (which I haven't used, but<br>is supposed to do basic 3D geometry presentations from a Python
<br>interface). These options give you a more linguistic interface that<br>may be easier for you to grasp than the full-blown, complex GUI<br>that Blender presents you with. On the other hand, it too has<br>a learning curve.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Terry<br><br><br>--<br>Terry Hancock (<a href="mailto:hancock@AnansiSpaceworks.com">hancock@AnansiSpaceworks.com</a>)<br>Anansi Spaceworks <a href="http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com">http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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