At 10/20/09 12:59 AM, farfenwaffle wrote:
Physics? REALLY?! Where will style go? What happened to an inbetween? What happened to animation? I hope that adobe brings back the stuff that makes you feel acomplished when you make a movie. Like, oh I don't know... animation?Hard work? I already miss feeling special for making a good animation.
It's just a prepackaged physics engine, not an animation genie. Let's say you have a character moving around shooting a gun. If the perspective of your character is changing, the physics engine isn't going to be able to animate that for you, you'll still have to do that on your own. However you could use the engine to quickly get spent shells to bounce around on the ground. The way I see it, this tool will help to animate the subtle details, while the more time can be spent animating and refining the main action.
The only thing that peeves me about this is that I JUST got CS4 (upgraded from 8). But it's not out yet, and as far as I've searched there isn't a release date yet. I've been teaching myself AS3, so hopefully by the time this comes out I can justify getting it.
Being able to develop to multiple platforms only increases the market range for flash games. They're talking about iPhone and iTouch right now, how long do you think it'll be before Google wants compatibility with the Android phones? Or for that matter, any of the phone OS's, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Simian, ect.? Everyone has a phone, not everyone goes to flash game sites...
I know there is already Flash for phones, but I know very little about it, other than it's not full featured.
