Please check it out :)

[brutfood]

I've been working on online applications to create drag-and-drop Flash WEB sites, and an actionscript 3D modelling program. Although I've developed these on a mac - I want to make sure that mac users can use these ok - and also to get the responses of other mac users.

My work in progress is at:-

http://au.geocities.com/brutfood/

-I stress that anything that you find here is work in progress - not final versions. Having said that - be as cruel as you like

One problem is, movement chokes my computer (300Mhz G3 processor) - I'd be interested to hear about how it performs on other computers. Also, one mac user has reported that this crashed his explorer window when he re-sized it. I haven't been able to duplicate this problem.

Any other comments are welcome. Thankyou.

[SJT]

The 3D engine is very impressive, and my machine coped fine, then again i'm running a DP450 with 896MB RAM and OS X 10.1.4, so i probably wouldn't have too many problems...

Overall, the environment is quite dark, it's difficult to read the text sometimes.
I also think the orientation and orbiting controls are confusion, you need to label and differentiaite the two.

I'm really interested in how you built the 3D engine for a project of my own, could you point me in the direction of some useful stuff?? TIA

[brutfood]

There is another thread where various 3D tutorials have been cited.

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=310392

But if you need to know anything specific - just ask! The drawing API in flash MX makes the writing these things much easier - I held off using this because I wanted flash 5 compatibility for now.

Any other comments on my work in progress are welcome. What do you think of the web-page builder?

http://au.geocities.com/brutfood/

[siriusss]

Works great on my 366mhz lime green ibook (192mb ram) only part where it kinda slows down is when i rotate the whole stage with more than 5 objects on it
-Sirius

[SJT]

Sorry brutfood, was gonna reply sooner but i forgot...

I think the web design engine is a nice concept, but the controls need a lot of work. The text engine is difficult to control (e.g. how do you change colours or edit text once it's been entered, probably easy but i couldn't work it out).
I think maybe it would help if you broke it down into stages. e.g. Stage one, choose your background and button themes etc, stage two put your content in place etc. and then have the option to edit all of this at any time, but not from the main interface (i.e. you go back to the background editor or whatever)...
hope this helps, keep up the good work.

p.s. you might get more responses in site check...

[brutfood]

Ok, I've made some changes that make things easier to use. There's even a tutorial.

There's going to be a cut down lite version too. Less features easier to use. Text entry makes more sense.

Anyway, the feedback so far has been really helpful. Thank you. Keep it coming.

http://au.geocities.com/brutfood/