We will be in Bordeaux, France, next 10th of May to present Minko. We will talk about the main issues and constraints regarding the workflow for 3D applications and how Minko helps. This event is organized by TTFX (TonTons FleXeurs), the Flash French user group.

You can book your tickets and get more details about the event on EventBrite.

It’s free and open to everyone so we hope we’ll see you there!

“Somewhere in the European sky, the French Air Force made a terrible discovery that will upset the world. Flying saucers are about to destroy our world. Citizen of the Earth, it’s time for you to join “The Mirage”. Only you can save mankind…”

If you like playing games or if you just like shooting flying saucers, ‘The Mirage’ is for you. It’s a simple 3D multiplayer game achieved in 24 hours thanks to Minko and our talented team of engineers. “The Mirage” targets mobile devices (iPhone, iPad and Android) and web browsers.

You can also use your mobile device (iPhone or Android) as a game controller. And you don’t even need to install an app. to do that! Thanks to Orbit, we were able to create this real-time experience right in the web browser of your smartphone with an HTML5 web application.

You don’t have to download anything, the game can be controlled with an HTML5 web application available directly in the browser for iOS and Android. The experience works on Wi-Fi and even 3G.

Try “The Mirage” now and share your score on Facebook!

The following video is a case study of the application we created with MNSTR, the digital agency behind the amazing Eristoff Black campaign:

To see what the experience looks like, here is a video:

If you want to create this kind of experiences, please contact us!

The ShaderLab is a web application providing a visual programming environment to create, test and share hardware accelerated rendering effects or “shaders”. It benefits from Minko’s optimized JIT compiler to create high speed and lightweight shaders.

If you have questions or suggestions, please post them on Aerys Answers or in the comments.

In this video:

• live 3D preview (0:09)
• sound spectrum analyzer for animations based on sound (0:20)
• extraction of floating point values components (0:50)
• user friendly value items such as color pickers (1:07)
• customizable GPU states for blending, depth test, etc… (1:20)
• powerful enough to create fully hardware accelerated particle engines without code (1:25)
• custom maths functions with rich curve editors (1:37)
• display compiled shader bytecode for educational purposes (1:52)
• load and save files from the Aerys online cloud storage (1:55)
• group operations to create high level functions (2:50)
• bitmap textures (3:18)
• change preview 3D model (3:35)
• create texture animations (3:52)
• support for multiple textures (4:05)
• customizable shader name and description (4:15)
• procedural hardware accelerated animations (4:40)
• customizable interpolation smoothing (4:50)
• hardware accelerated procedural textures (5:40)

Other features:

• access to normalized mouse coordinates
• parameter bindings with ActionScript code
• export shaders and import them with a single line of code in any application
• embed any shader on any website “à la Youtube” (http://bit.ly/x1BkNi)
• save and load files from the local file system

“2040, a NATO spy satellite discovers a long time forgotten Nazi base in the desertic lands of Artic. This secret base once was a laboratory of the “Black Sun”, the occult division of the 3rd Reich. It appears they have been running strange experiments on extraterrestrial material found in meteorites. A team of marines was sent there to investigate… You are the only survivor.”

That’s the pitch for our latest experiment called “BlackSun”. It’s meant to be an homage to Wolfenstein 3D, the very first 3D PC game. BlackSun is a very simple and yet effective 3D shooting game available right in your browser.

Of course, the game was built with Minko, our free and open source 3D engine for the Adobe Flash Platform. Thanks to Minko, we were able to create the scene with classic CAO tools such as Autodesk 3DS Max and Maya and use them in our application. We also used our upcoming exclusive 3D compression algorithms to reduce the total size of the game to less than 10MB.

Try BlackSun now!

This very first release is just a technical preview but it already features:

• Real-time 3D rendering
• Dynamic and static lighting
• Projected shadows
• HDR rendering
• Hardware accelerated animations
• Physics

For now, we’ve just published a first technical preview so you’ll have to wait a bit longer to start the nazi aliens slaughter… But stay tuned, democracy needs you!

Oh, and by the way, the exciting things that you might have seen during our presentations are around the corner.

Featured applications:

• Renault Scénic Lapins Crétins
• Eristoff Black Up
• Super Mario remote game controller prototype
• Oasis Fruit Of The Year 2010
• Harry Potter – L’Ultime Combat
• Nao 3D skeleton streaming

It is called Aerys Answers and it is now officially available. You just have to create a free Aerys ID, log in and start asking questions and share what you know with the community. Please note that those IDs will soon be required to access early beta programs and a lot of cool and exclusive features.

We sure hope this is just the beginning of a big and successful community! If you need professional techincal support, please contact us!

If you are a Flex/Flash User Group leader and you want us to present our technologies during a meeting or an event, contact us and we will be happy to help!

EPITA Open Source Day in Paris, France

The Open Source Day is organized by EPITA, a french computer engineering school. The event promotes open source technologies.

• When: 22th of November 2011 at 1 P.M.
• Where: EPITA, 14-16 rue Voltaire, 94276 Kremblin Bicêtre, France

Rage3D meeting in Dijon, France

The Rage3D meeting is an opportunity for 3D profesionnals to discuss about the business of (real-time) 3D applications and how they affect the world of IT.

• When: 25th of November 2011 starting at 2 P.M.
• Where: Parc des expositions de Dijon, France

FlashCamp in Lisbon, Portugal

A FlashCamp organized by the Lisbon Flash User Group. You can register for this event on EventBrite.

• When: the 3rd of December
• Where: Lusófona, Campo Grande, 376, Lisboa, 1749-024 Lisboa E Vale Do Tejo, Portugal

Flex User Group in Lyon, France

An event organized by the Flex User Group of Lyon.

• When: 25th of December 2011 starting at 6h45 P.M.
• Where: EPITECH Lyon, France

Here are a few useful links:

• The official annoucement on Flex-Tutorials.fr (french)
• The forum topic on Mediabox (french)
• The event on EventBrite