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Incubator News Roundup (Molehill)

February 27th, 2011

NOTE: this post was last updated with new links on March 9, 2011

New and truly revolutionary versions of Flash Player and Adobe AIR named “Incubator” (formerly Molehill APIs) were made available on Adobe Labs. To those who are unfamiliar with the new release, it features hardware accelerated 3D graphics support.

As Adobe puts it: “The Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash® Player Incubator is a technology preview program for more adventurous developers who are willing to experiment with Flash Platform runtime features that are in early development stages.”

New Incubator builds of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR available here:
Download Incubator Builds and check Wiki

If you are keen on exploring 3D capabilities right away, you can use one of the pre-release versions of the popular 3D frameworks that also announced Incubator support. To see a list of all features that are included in the Incubator builds, check out this post.

3D frameworks supporting Molehill:

Here are some LIVE demos:

(make sure you have Flash Player Incubator installed first)

Added on March 9:

Added on March 8:

Added on Feb 27:

Videos (only new stuff):

Just Source Code:

Tutorials and Articles:

Related News:

Now, let’s change the web!
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52 Responses to “Incubator News Roundup (Molehill)”

  1. zproxy Says:
    February 27th, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    I wonder when can I get flash 11 on my android 2.2 device :)

  2. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 27th, 2011 at 11:32 pm

    Stay tuned, Adobe is currently working on adding Molehill support to mobile devices using OpenGL ES2

  3. Warren Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 12:31 am

    Have a look at our demo here: http://aerys.in/minko-quake-3

  4. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 12:35 am

    Warren, we already have you in the list :) Awesome demo!

  5. Warren Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 2:14 am

    Oh, right, missed it :) Keep crawling the web for new demos!

  6. Flash Player 11 / Molehill Monster Link Round-up | Photon Storm Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 2:30 am

    [...] and there’s a nice round-up of Molehill demos and articles over on Uza’s blog [...]

  7. Tinic Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 2:34 am

    One more:

    2D Sprite Sheets with Molehill: http://blog.kaourantin.net/?p=110

  8. Ryan Speets Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 2:41 am

    Thanks for compiling this list of demos, so I don’t have to! Also, thanks for including mine :)

  9. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 2:42 am

    @Tinic thanks!
    @Ryan no problem!

    Please leave a comment if you find any cool demos that are not mentioned here!

  10. Anton Volkov Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 4:26 am

    http://alternativaplatform.com/en/demos/maxracer/

  11. Anton Volkov Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 4:26 am

    oops :)

  12. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 4:27 am

    @Anton – I was checking your website every 10minutes to see when you will upload a link to your demo :)

  13. Anton Volkov Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 4:58 am

    :)
    Please, add Alternativa3D 8 into “Frameworks supporting Molehill” section (http://alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/).

  14. George Profenza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    I wrote a quick article on how to setup Away3D 4.0 and the examples: http://bit.ly/gKebfm HTH!

  15. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    @George – thanks, added to the list

  16. George Profenza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @Paulius Thank you! I’ve linked to your blog from our post(http://bit.ly/eAzub3) since it has very comprehensive list of resources. Well done!

  17. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    @George – Thanks for the link!

  18. focus Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    Simple Bunnyhill (Upcoming 2D rendering engine based on the Molehil API) Demos
    http://blog.cjcat.net/2011/02/simple-bunnyhill-demos/

    HxSL (shader language for haXe)
    http://ncannasse.fr/blog/announcing_hxsl/

  19. focus Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    Quickstart for Molehill and Away3D
    http://johnlindquist.com/2011/02/28/quickstart-for-molehill-and-away3d/

  20. focus Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    Video: See What Flash Can do with the Molehill 3D API
    http://www.youtube.com/user/snorklTV#p/c/0/JSlehUCU9gs

  21. Paulius Uza Says:
    February 28th, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    @focus – thanks for the links

  22. Evan Miller Says:
    March 1st, 2011 at 3:37 am

    Really simple, barebones, per-polygon distance fog tutorial.

    http://pixelante.ca/index.php?b=molehill_flash_tutorial_perpolygon_distance_fog

  23. focus Says:
    March 1st, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Using Flash 3D API in haXe
    http://haxe.org/doc/advanced/flash3d

  24. focus Says:
    March 1st, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    Converting wii game to Molehill (Video Interview With Mandreel):
    http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=2593

  25. Paulius Uza Says:
    March 1st, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    @focus – thanks again, great links

  26. Evan Miller Says:
    March 2nd, 2011 at 12:03 am

    Here we go, much improved distance fog shader:
    http://pixelante.ca/index.php?b=molehill_flash_tutorial_pervertex_distance_fog

  27. The Source For Experimental Media » Blog Archive » FlashPlayer 11: Molehill 3D API Says:
    March 2nd, 2011 at 1:13 am

    [...] this on yesterday.  Also Watch a bunch more videos at FlashRealtime.com and link over to Uza’s Blog for more info on all the 3D engines using Molehill and a ton of interactive [...]

  28. Thonbo Says:
    March 2nd, 2011 at 1:28 am

    thonbo.com/molehill_tests/MolehillTest2.html

  29. Smily Says:
    March 2nd, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    Here’s one I made with the help of http://pixelante.ca/index.php?b=molehill_flash_tutorial_pervertex_distance_fog for the fog and http://codeflow.org/entries/2010/dec/09/minecraft-like-rendering-experiments-in-opengl-4/ for the actual triangle generation: http://liquify.eu/VoxelRenderer/ :)

  30. focus Says:
    March 2nd, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    One more away3d + jiglib Demo
    http://examples.swfgeek.net/flash/molehill/away3d_jiglib/index.html

  31. Evan Miller Says:
    March 3rd, 2011 at 1:43 am

    New day, new tutorial. This time it is a Vertex Lighting shader (+ the fog from before)

    http://pixelante.ca/index.php?b=molehill_flash_tutorial_vertex_lighting

  32. 12 Says:
    March 3rd, 2011 at 1:53 am

    Full Quake 3 demo here : http://q3fl.impulse12.com

    Alchemy + Molehill inside.

  33. focus Says:
    March 3rd, 2011 at 3:59 am

    5000 Arrows:
    http://escargot.la.coocan.jp/molehill/index.html

  34. Evan Miller Says:
    March 5th, 2011 at 4:41 am

    Two primers on AGAL:

    http://ryanspeets.com/flash/agalminiassembler-primer/

    http://pixelante.ca/index.php?b=molehill_flash_tutorial_agal_basics

  35. Evan Miller Says:
    March 8th, 2011 at 1:57 am

    Faster vertex lighting with transformations done on the GPU

    http://pixelante.ca/index.php?b=molehill_flash_tutorial_faster_vertex_lighting

  36. Molehill on your lunch break – take a 30 min tour | Gregs Ramblings Says:
    March 9th, 2011 at 12:59 am

    [...] Paulius Uza has a great list of molehill demos at http://www.uza.lt/2011/02/27/molehill-roundup/ [...]

  37. devu Says:
    March 9th, 2011 at 4:40 am

    The best collection of Molehill stuff so far.

  38. Evan Miller Says:
    March 9th, 2011 at 4:54 am

    GPU Bloom demo: http://pixelante.ca/demo/gpubloom.html

    No tutorial for it yet.

  39. Jay Says:
    March 9th, 2011 at 6:05 am

    Please fix this post. It makes look the name of the player version is Incubator but that’s not the case, incubator is the name of the developer program, it’s just another word for “alpha”(program).

  40. Paulius Uza Says:
    March 9th, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    Adobe Flash® Player Incubator is an end product in itself and it’s outside the ordinary release cycle of Flash Player, therefore it would be fair to say that Incubator is just a product name, rather than synonym for “alpha” or “beta”.

  41. Molehill on your lunch break – take a 30 min tour (Adobe Flash Platform Blog) Says:
    March 10th, 2011 at 7:40 am

    [...] Paulius Uza has a great list of molehill demos at http://www.uza.lt/2011/02/27/molehill-roundup/ [...]

  42. Inear Says:
    March 10th, 2011 at 8:56 am

    Great list! Thanks for mentioning my demo!

  43. Molehill – the holy grail of flash game development? | TribePlay Chengdu Blog Says:
    March 10th, 2011 at 9:06 am

    [...] Check also this post out, Uza is providing a helpful roundup on Molehill news, with lots of demos, videos and background [...]

  44. Adobe Labs Special Meeting – How You Can Make Apps Easily | How To Make A App - Mobile Applications Says:
    March 21st, 2011 at 12:11 am

    [...] > Great list of Molehill demos – > http://www.uza.lt/2011/02/27/molehill-roundup/ > Another great list of Molehill demos – http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=2607 > Great [...]

  45. reelfernandes Says:
    March 26th, 2011 at 9:09 am

    500 image Animated Bitmap Collection with Away3D & Molehill http://reelworld.com/molehill

  46. Andre Says:
    March 29th, 2011 at 4:02 am

    Can you add my blog?

    Thanks,

    Andre

  47. hasinur Says:
    April 10th, 2011 at 1:56 am

    please add this to the list:
    http://www.alive-3d.com/?p=264

    if browser does not have the incubator flash plugin installed, content will be rendered through FP 10 drawing API.
    Basically Alive3d is a full featured 3d engine for Flash Player 10 and recently we have started integrating Molehill.

  48. Peter Strømberg Says:
    April 16th, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    More Examples…
    http://videometry.net/broomstick/TextureBroomstick.html
    http://videometry.net/broomstick/WaveModifier.html
    http://videometry.net/broomstick/Manta.html

  49. inear Says:
    April 16th, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    It’s so much we have to learn to master 3D. Check out this tutorial/presentation I made about 3D basics for flash developers to get a deeper understanding in true 3D.

    http://www.inear.se/2011/04/a-brief-introduction-to-3d/

  50. GameCamp 2011 (#gc4) | Citystate Says:
    May 15th, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    [...] And there’s a growing list of demos here. [...]

  51. Stumbling on a Molehill » GSDH Advertising agency | Design illustration animation Corporate Design Flashprogrammer Logodesign Says:
    May 17th, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    [...] More information here: http://www.uza.lt/2011/02/27/molehill-roundup/ [...]

  52. strony oświęcim Says:
    July 28th, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    any news and tutorials on new FP11 beta?

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