Interactive Flash Textures for Director 3D

I worked for one semester with the Augmented Environments Lab, which has created a developers' toolkit called Directer Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART). In 3D applications like Director, models are covered by textures. They can appear to be animated by updating them fast enough. I integrated the capability to use Flash SWF files as animated textures on any Director3D model.

I also found and implemented several ways to make the texture interactive just like the SWF. That means you can roll over or click on a 3D model that's using the image of the SWF, and it will respond the same way. The example linked above is a hack I made up for Shockwave that relies on CSS that only Internet Explorer interprets correctly. DART applications are run in developer mode.

Finally, I created a web page that walks through all the ways I found to create interactive and non-interactive Flash textures. I included sample Lingo and ActionScript source code as a resource for developers with relevant projects.