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Here’s the Google 3D Maps with added motion blur (experimental) and plain 2d mode. Installer and Sources are available.

Screen shot (click to install)

Now I’m thinking about upgrading sources to the fresh release of Papervision3D which has 40% performance growth.

I’ve updated the sources and installation file of the Google 3D Map Application made with Adobe Apollo to the latest Adobe AIR version. People who requested it — you can now download the sources and Google 3D Map 0.3 AIR Installation File.

New features:

- Map scrolling made much more smooth. Just smooth.
- Mouse wheel support: wheel to zoom camera in/out, Shift + Wheel to move camera above the horizon.
- Now uses native AIR chrome.

To run this version Google 3D Map, you need Adobe AIR Runtime Beta 1 - latest release at the moment.

Click screenshot to download / install app:

Please note: to compile the project from sources, you need the Papervision3D library. I’ve included its classes in the sources, but you surely should check out the latest version of this great library to get a taste of cute flash 3d programming.

Some details about migration from Adobe Apollo Alpha to Adobe AIR Beta 1: the main differences in application structure is renamed application container: now you use <mx:WindowedApplication> instead of <mx:ApolloApplication>. Also, there’s some changes in the application.xml file. Read the good tips on migrating here: Re: Apollo to AIR migration topic at the codeapollo.com forums.

Update: Application is prepared for the latest version of the Adobe AIR.

Download the latest version here: Google 3D Map Adobe AIR Application.

I’ve just published the source files for Apollo 3D Test App, and updated the application a bit: added the option of map smoothing. Surprise, this doesn’t decrease the app performance — check it out: Apollo 3d Test v 2.0 with Google Maps and Papervision 3D.

To run it, you need Apollo Runtime, here’s the screenshot (click it to download / install the app):

BTW, after installing the Apollo Extension for Flex Builder I’ve got a feeling that my FB2 started work faster. Surely, this simple app builds in second or two, while I have Photoshop, Outlook, Dreamweaver, Word, Visio, Firefox, Winamp 5 and LastFM scrobbler opened, plus GoogleTalk, Skype and one Apache process running.

Update: Application is prepared for the latest version of the Adobe AIR.

Download the latest version here: Google 3D Map Adobe AIR Application.

Apollo is free from some limitations of regular Flash Player; for example, with Apollo’s HTML componente you able to load something from the web and to operate with it in any way, without necessity to care about all those annoyuing crossdomain policy files.

For example, you can take Google Maps, place it on the 3D plane or sphere, keeping the interactivity of dragging the map (you needed Apollo Runtime for have this example working):

I’m truly intrigued with Adobe Apollo…

Papervision3D now has its own wiki, which is very useful especially for those who just start using PV3D.

You can start, for example, from Papervision3D FAQ and PV3D tutorials.