Sandy 3.0 is our first released version to take advantage of AS3 (ActionScript 3) performance and features! Some older AS3 versions have been tested, but none was good enough to be presented to the public, until today !

The core engine is almost 80% new !
I have updated all the process pipeline, from computation, to screen display.

The new code has several advantages :

• Faster ! The new architecture is definitely better than the previous ones. More logical, more flexible, a very good basis to create amazing stuff!
• Simpler ! I finally decided to use the power of ActionScript getter/setter methods. Now objects and transformable groups have the same possibilities as the camera. Moreover, the transformable objects have some fast access properties such as, x, y, z instead of needing to use the object's rotateX(), rotateY(), rotateZ(), roll(), pitch(), and yaw() methods to rotate the camera.
• Possibilities and extensions reach a new scale. Creating a new material (formerly Skin) is simpler and really powerful.
• The camera can be part of the scene graph, as a simple object. Very powerful to rotate it and place it behind an object (or a character).
• Event system. You can register to object event easily directly through the object or its parent (bubbling event system).

The Sandy 3.0 release is the result of long months of work and testing. The library is now very stable even if still need some efforts on parser package, with a better collada support.

On the download page to get the archive zip file.

On the google code SVN : http://sandy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sandy/as3/branches/3.0.2/ you'll find the correct sandy source code, and some test examples.

See sourcecode for details.

See contributing for details on becoming a contributor.