first person shooter on flash

[floony]

I know you can make actual 3-D first person shooters on some sort of flash program.

example, Alien x

But how do you do that?

[Johnny]

That's shockwave, not flash.

For all intents and purposes, they're completely different.

[HandsomeJake]

tom of the sfb may know. ask him. maybe he'll help

(he did do it with flash i believe)

[Johnny]

At 12/27/06 10:29 PM, HandsomeJake wrote: tom of the sfb may know. ask him. maybe he'll help

(he did do it with flash i believe)

Not the same though. Shockwave has the capability to do fairly advanced 3d rendering, whereas it's more of a workaround to do it in flash. Also, Shockwave can handle much more advanced games such as basic FPS.

[KayoKsaKayo]

I think you can make a 3D games with flash... 9.
Its fairly new, and it looks like doom (1) graphics. but some people may do some crazy things with it.

or just use swift3D

[HandsomeJake]

At 12/27/06 10:32 PM, Johnny wrote:

At 12/27/06 10:29 PM, HandsomeJake wrote: tom of the sfb may know. ask him. maybe he'll help

(he did do it with flash i believe)

Not the same though. Shockwave has the capability to do fairly advanced 3d rendering, whereas it's more of a workaround to do it in flash. Also, Shockwave can handle much more advanced games such as basic FPS.

yeah, i figured that was the case.

i spent forever trying to find that game he made and posted on the reg lounge. i finally found the link, but he must have deleted it :(. that was majorly dissapointing

[Penboy]

It's possible, but it wouldn't be as smooth and slick as FPS you'd be used to like H-L and CoD. The FPS made in flash are very jittery and the player seems to take larger steps, it sounds silly but you know what I mean. They'd turn out like the Doom 1-2 games.

[deltatsunami]

there is a rumor that is going on that adobe will make the capability of 3d rendering games in the later versions of flash..
however,

i seriously doubt it..

[jiggie1]

how would you go about making a shockwave game?

[MutedD]

You can make 3D games in Flash and it's not exclusive to Flash 9.
However, that requires coding a 3D engine in Actionscript and a full 3D game really isn't something for the faint hearted.

Those games that "turn out like Doom1-2" are usually done through a technique called Ray-Casting, which was the technique used to create the original Doom and Wolfenstien of the era.

There are other ways of achieving a 3D effect, such as API, however most are pretty intensive due to the fact that Flash simply wasn't designed to be pushed that far.

Simply put, if you don't already have an idea about how you would make a game like that, you have next to no chance of making one.