Flash 3D engine demo by Electric Oyster. Nice lake texture, too.

Update: The new engine is actually Papervision. The lake is still a nice touch.

Another interesting 3D Flah work (swfz engine by Jono) showing some physics, 3D sound, collision detection and many other cool features.

The author of the engine explains in this old post four ways of achieving 3D in Flash and his interest for rasterization.

The demo he presents has some bugs as he mentions in his post, but still worth to take a closer look at what he has achieve so far. Be aware that we are talking about Adobe Flash with all its limitations.

Two fantastic pieces of Flash experimentation about play and parse MoCap data files at runtime.

This MoCap studies combined with 3D Flash engines such as Papervision3D could bring new satisfactions to the 3D Flash community and other creative communities around.

MoCap experience by Didier Brun:

Motion capture (oos.moxiecode):

Geoff Stearns announces a new release of SWFObject (1.5) with some bug fixes,some changes in the Express Install functionality and support for IE Mobile devices that have Flash Player installed.

There is also the SWFFix project by Geoff Stearns and Bobby van der Sluis, which will be attempting to replace SWFObject as the de-facto Flash embedding standard.

Related Links:

• Flash Switcher extension for Firefox.

Related Posts:

• Flash: Uninstall and Install for testing purposes.
• The Object formerly known as Flash.
• Flash and IE: Click to activate and use this control.

Less Rain Tokyo is looking for a Flash developer.

Job Description

Nice use of physics in Flash, and a 3D character builder, by Japanese designer Masayuki Kido.

An advent calendar from Nintendo, developed by extra tonic. Behind every door waits a level of cute Flash platformer “Mission in Snowdriftland“.

Found on Aeropause.

Less Rain has recently launched the corporate site for Red Bull Israel - one of the few Flash websites to render fully dynamic text in right-to-left layout - including formatting, links and input textfields. It also supports the use of browser back-buttons, deeplinking and bookmarking.

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The right-to-left algorithm is losely based on Richard Ishida very helpful explanation of the bidi algorithm.

I had looked into other discussions and solutions but wasn't able to make any of them work, or found them to be too restrictive. See also the efforts of Flaraby, g. wygonik, Oddhammer, Quasimondo, FlashRTL.

For more information about the underlying problem visit The Right To Flash

The site showcases the new Volkswagen Eos, an all weather car with a “James Bond”- like roof system. The user can choose a season / theme and use the power of Eos – the Titan Goddess of Dawn according to Greek Mythology – to paint the car in a different colour and change the scenery.

Click here to visit the site.

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Full-screen mode is now supported in both the stand-alone player and the browser players.

The full-screen mode in Flash Player is initiated through ActionScript and can be terminated through ActionScript, keyboard shortcuts, or by the user switching focus to another window.

Read more in Adobe Labs: Flash Player:9:Update:Full-Screen Mode

Click here to see an example (right click to enable and disable full-screen mode).

You must have version 9,0,18,60 or greater of Flash Player.

Related Posts:

• Flash: Full Screen Video

Try the Flash paint application, 'Colour the World' in the bottom right corner. Nokia 6131 Website.

Very interesting article for FWA written by By Nick Velloff.

• Hybrid Flash Developers: A unique species.
• Nick Velloff 's Blog entry.

UPDATE:
Someone (Matthias) in the office doesn't agree, read it here.