Using the new Flash 11 incubator player release i have done a quick test of some 3D GPU accelerated ribbons using the Away3D engine.

The Away3D engine seems the simplest way of interfacing with molehill at the moment i would say, and it didn’t take more than a couple of hours to get my head round using it and creating these ribbons. They are quite optimised as i am updating vertex positions on a single plane for each ribbon rather than creating new planes for each segment which increases the draw calls significantly and resulting in not a lot of ribbons running at once.

To get this to work you will need to get the latest incubator beta Flash player 11 installed, the Away3D engine and lastly i have used the Tweenmax engine for some simple tweens with the ribbon position targets.

The code at the moment is a bit of mess as i was just playing around with different movement variables and effects with the ribbons, but hopefully it will act as a good place to learn how to use the new molehill capabilities and when i have a bit of time i will update the source code with comments and clean it up a bit too.

The source code is available for download on the link below.

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