A couple of months ago I accidentally found a demo of a AS 3D engine, called Alternativa. Alternativa is a project founded by the Russian company called “GRTOV Studio". Basically it is a full AS3 3D engine, with future multiplayer support.

They described Alternativa as:
Alternativa is a platform for creating, implementing and supporting multi-user browser media over the Internet. It consists of server core (data store and exchange, synchronizing, managing hardware load), clients part (3D-engine, GUI and other client apps), administrating part (integrated payment services, through user registration, statistics), documentation (”how to create and to manage projects” guide, public classes and methods description etc.), support system (developers portal, forum, FAQs etc.), and the applications made on a platform themself.

Alternativa Platform — simple and useful integrated development tools, world editors, free to use resources (game objects logic modules, textures, sounds etc.). Platform takes care of data storing and user data synchronizations, gives development methodology and hosting, shares its community, supports projects at all their stages.

Every company or end-user will be able to create personal 3D-world and to fine tune it according to own goals and preferences. We aim to give talents an opportunity to develop, to give developers tools to create great projects, to let business to market their goods and services through their own innovative personalized multy-user media.

Once in a while they post a new demo online, to show the world their progress. All of those demo's are pretty amazing, but their last demo (called Alternativa3D 5.0 (Milestone 1) ) which is posted today really rocks! It has a great performance and a good level of detail for this size of the scene!

Unfortunatly nothing can be found if the source code will go public soon, or if it will be open sourced at all. For now we just have to wait and see and be blown away by their impressing examples.

Tags: Actionscript, General //