What is PreFab3D?

This application is an attempt to simplify common tasks, improve the workflow and greatly enhance the visual quality of your Flash 3D productions.

It's a small but powerfull tool that can add visual quality to low polygon models using a nice bag of tricks thanks to the advanced rendering capabilities of Away3D.

The rendering options may surprise you and the export options will make your work a breeze. Your project will be smaller in file size, but larger in visual fidelity.

The tool requires no programming experience, so it's well suited for designers as well as programmers. In fact - we'd say that it's the "missing link" between designers, modelers and Flash 3D developers!

Position your lights the way you want it and start the baking of lights and shadows into the textures

Want to make low-polygon models that look stunning? Load a higher resolution model and create a Normal Map that bakes extra detail into your texture rather than increasing the resolution of the mesh.

Not happy with the UV texturing - Prefab will let you tweak or even redo it

When you're finished perfecting your textures, just save out the resulting files and export your model as an AS3 class for use directly within Away3D or exxport the rendered object in the obj Wavefront format. Keep in mind that once exported, you can then recombine this with the Pixel Bender accelerated shaders recently made available in Away3D and Away3D Lite for even higher fidelity. Note that while Prefab is created using Away3D, it can certainly add to the visual quality of projects done using Papervision3D, Sandy3D or other Flash 3D engines.

 

Features

• Loads all 3D formats supported by Away3D with a single drag and drop
• Prebaking of the model textures in fast and raytracing mode
• Optional bump in both renderers.
• Lights caustics: mask & color
• Multiple light sources
• Export to AS3 for both Away3D Flash 9 and Away3D Flash 10
• Export to AS3 for Away3DLite Flash 10
• Automatic embed of the rendered maps in AS3 files
• Export to Wavefront obj with mtl files and sources
• UV editor
• Path geneartor, extrusions, animation. Export path and animation to AS3
• Terrain generator
• Normalmap generator with additional bump
• Heightmap generator
• Transfer realtime from your Away3D project directly into the application
• and more!

 

Getting started:

Some Interface elements and functionalities may not reflect the lastest version of the application.

1.0 Watch this little intro movie.

1.2 Paths feature movie

This page will be updated as soon as tutorials files are available.