Combining Starling and Away3d

[davikingcode]

Combining Starling and Away3d

[alamboley]

Well, that's a deep question that I've never tried myself.

First thing you will need to modify the CE if you have to setup a proxy and share the context.

On an other side you want probably to use Away3D for your game and Starling for UI? Therefore you will not instanciate Starling with the StarlingCitrusEngine class but create your own.

Finally I don't see anything prevent it to work. Please let me know if you make some test ;)

[DieTapete]

Okay thanks for the quick answer. I guess I will give it a shot then. Maybe my solution will be clean enough to become part of the Engine. ;)

[hambergk]

I've been searching the same thing, in the meantime here is another great tutorial for combining starling and away3D (http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=166). Let me know if you find a solution.

[hambergk]

FYI just modified CE to support this kind of behavior in case somebody is interested.

[alamboley]

Absolutely interested! It may be added into a future build ;)

[hambergk]

Here is an example: http://dev.levelup.fi/ce/ The static background is rendered using Starling. I can post the source once I've had time to clean it up a bit.

[alamboley]

That's very cool! I would love to see how well we can add it to the engine.

[hambergk]

Just uploaded an example file and the changes made to CE here: https://github.com/hambergk/CitrusEngine-Starling-Away3D
Keep in mind though that I did it the quick and dirty way, hope it helps development of CE. Here is a example of the code in action:
http://dev.levelup.fi/ce/

[alamboley]

Thanks a lok Andreas for this code, I've updated the Away3DView class with your changes!

Also let me know your progress on your 3D game if you made one. The Away3D support isn't very advanced in the engine. I miss some time to give it the power it deserves...

For example here we create Away3D in the State class, that will be a problem if we change level and therefore state because we will recreate a Away3D instance. The previous one will be cleaned, but it may take some time to make the change especially on mobile.

The best practice would be to copy the Starling CE's template : create classes Away3DCitrusEngine and Away3DState. So Away3D will be managed out of the State class.

That's something on my to do list, for one day!

[alamboley]

Finally I'd some time to do that! Check the last update : http://citrusengine.com/v3-1-1-stage3d-interoperation/
And see the code example : https://github.com/alamboley/Citrus-Engine-Examples/blob/master/src/stage3dinteroperation/Main.as

Thank you very much ;)

[hambergk]

Great stuff, keep up the good work! ;)