FLARManager v0.61 updates

November 27th, 2009
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Multimarker platform for FLARToolkit library

v0.5 introduced some issues with automatic camera selection (in FLARCameraSource) that went fairly unnoticed until v0.6. this primarily affected users with USB cameras on Windows, as well as a couple of other edge cases.

v0.61 corrects those issues, thanks to some help from jim alliban.

download it here: http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/

what is this?

FLARManager is a lightweight framework that makes it easier to build FLARToolkit augmented reality applications for Flash. it is compatible with a variety of 3D engines, and provides a more robust event-based system for managing marker addition, update, and removal. it supports detection and management of multiple patterns, and multiple markers of a given pattern.

FLARManager v0.6 for FLARToolkit

September 23rd, 2009
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New Stuff!

Customization

FLARManager’s smoothing and adaptive thresholding display algorithms are now broken out into separate classes, allowing developers to implement their own algorithms. see Inside FLARManager: Customization for more info. additionally, custom smoother and threshold display algorithms can be implemented via flarConfig.xml, to allow fine-tuning without recompiling.

Better 2D support

added .x, .y, .z, .rotation2D, .scale2D, and .matrix2D properties to FLARMarker, for easier access to 2D transformation properties that used to be hidden inside FLARToolkit’s 3D transformation matrices.

Better camera management

changes to FLARCameraSource provide better camera management, with less of a chance that the wrong camera will be auto-selected.

FLARManager deactivation and disposal

improved support for de- and reactivating, and for completely removing FLARManager from memory.

Native mirroring

developers no longer need to flip the viewport to achieve mirroring. when FLARManager.mirrorDisplay is set to true (as it is by default), FLARManager internally mirrors the matrices generated by FLARToolkit.

Give it a try here: http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/