Bending modifier for Papervision3D

06/11/2008 09:51 am by Everyday Flash in 3D

Bending objects is one of the classic features of any 3D package. I thought it would be nice to be able to bend stuff in Papervision3D too. First, I had to spend a couple of days trying to understand the concept of bending. It is fairly obvious when you see it, but when it comes to [...]

Tutorial | 3D Charts Using PaperVision3D

06/11/2008 01:12 am by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

A great example of creating a 3D chart using PV3D to visualize data by Andrew Trice. Read the article and source.

Use Away 3D man ...

06/09/2008 07:58 pm by sephiroth.it - flash & php in 3d

... or at least give it a try!

Working on Aviary I had the plesure to meet Alexander and Fabrice, the creator and one of the actual maintainers of Away 3D engine.

As you might known, we are using Away 3D for Hummingbird, and I had the plesure (yes, another :P) to give a look at the code an work in touch with the developers. I have to admit that Away 3D is really good!

I'm far to be the best person to suggest one framework over the others, but what I can do is tell you why I think Away 3D is (at least) worth a try, even if you are already working with Papervision 3D or the other engines. The first thing to know is that both the projects comes from the same branch - they have been splitted a few years ago (maybe just an year but I'm not sure) and then they followed two different paths. During my quick and basic experience with Away 3D I see that it has a real clean and powerful API (you have animation for instance or really good materials), good documentation and tutorials (see Fabrice's blog for a bunch of them!), more precise a quick rendering. And part of the new Papervision 3D 2.0 code is inspired by that library.

The various libraries outta there are for different purposes, and probably are taking (or will take) different directions (ie: see Alternativa 3D for instance, which seems well suited for games). But trying many of them instead focusing only on the most famous one is a really good thing - many users comes from PV3D for instance and are really happy about Away!

Don't take my assumptions as gold: this is what I think after just a bit of playing ;)

WebDU: 3D Flash comes to Oz

06/05/2008 07:48 pm by infinite turtles in 3d Flash

Next week I’ll be landing in Sydney to give a presentation and a workshop session all about web 3d. The workshop on the 11th will be focussing on how the Flash player can be used as a 3d engine using Papervision and Away3d, while the session on the 13th takes a broader look at how [...]

A banner built using FIVe3D

06/04/2008 10:09 am by Everyday Flash in 3D

Ever since Mathieu Badimon released FIVe3d AS3, I was thinking that it would be great to build a 3D animated banner using this library. The main challenge with banners is obviously the file size. I had to customize FIVe3d a little bit for this one. By organizing some imports and removing some parts of code I [...]

Tutorials | 3 great tutorials on Flash CS3 and Away 3D

05/28/2008 03:51 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

Fabrice Closier, posted 3 great tutorials on Flash and Away 3D 2.0, about reading the elevation values, using the fog filter and using the Lathe class. If you want to start using this great 3D engine, defenitly i would keep an eye on Fabrice’s blog. Tutorials Away3D Lathe Away3D Fog filter Away3D Surface Tracking [...]

Away3d: version 2.1.0 (demos & docs) released

05/23/2008 07:39 pm by infinite turtles in 3d Flash

This update of the Away3d engine has one overriding purpose - to make things easier to use! The updated livedocs section of the site has been completed for all classes, with a new version available in the trunk of the svn repository, accompanying the source. There is also a new folder for demos that exists as [...]

Hybrid 3D …

05/22/2008 03:24 am in 3d

No, it’s not yet another 3D library for Flash. I’m thinking about the ramificiations of a decision I have been, very reluctantly, forced into: use of multiple (well, two) 3D libraries for a single website. Papervision3D has (almost) all the features I want: lighting and shading, a sophisticated API (at least in Great White, the [...]

Source | Papervision3D FreeCamera Movement in AS3

05/16/2008 10:42 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

Another great example by Matt from Evolve, showing how to tween the camera movements around and tracks other objects. View the example and download support files

Road trip animation in Papervision3D

05/16/2008 12:09 am by Everyday Flash in 3D

I have been thinking about doing something like this for some time now, but I had no idea where to start. However, recently, after I experimented with animating vertices in Papervision3D, things started to look brighter, so a couple of days ago I sat down and started coding... Basic concept here is that there is one [...]

Flash Player 10, Good news to 3D Engines?

05/15/2008 10:34 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

I have a relevant question and would like to disclose it by listening your point of views on the new feature of native 3D support of Flash 10. It will be the end of 3D engine as the Papervision 3D and Away3D, or rather, is this feature that was missing to give more power to [...]

Video Tutorial | PV3D - Interactive MovieMaterial and Cube Navigation

05/14/2008 08:31 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

Here are two nice posts with one video tutorial and the other with a cool 3D cube navigation example. Both sources available. View tutorial - Interactive MovieMaterial See the 3d cube demo and download source

Away3d: Supernova visualiser update

05/13/2008 03:47 am by infinite turtles in 3d Flash

…now with source code! right click on the flash movie or go direct to the source here This uses the latest code from the Away3d svn trunk. I will update the download zips soon on the Away3d site with the same code asap!

pv3d stuff

05/13/2008 02:22 am in 3d

I just scanned through The Algorithmist’s list of examples and tutorials on Papervision3D. Very useful. I thought I would post a couple of links that I’ve found that have been helpful in my 3D journey (which I am still on, I emphasise!). First of all, the API docs that the wiki links to are out [...]

Papervision3d Tutorials in Flex 3

05/12/2008 09:52 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

Michael Lively posted 13 video tutorials on Papervision 3d and Flex, which will be usefull for sure to help you entering in this “new age” of Flah Platform. Wow Physics Papervervision3D Starter Code Demo: http://nkuflc.org/wowphysics/ Source: http://code.google.com/p/flex3cookbook1/downloads/list YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYZn0fEtwmQ Installing the Wow Physics Engine into Flex 3 Demo: http://nkuflc.org/wowphysics/ Source: http://code.google.com/p/flex3cookbook1/downloads/list YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYnCpp4Ewc 3D Sinc Plotter Demo: http://nkuflc.org/sincplot/ Source: http://code.google.com/p/flex3cookbook1/ under downloads 3D Plotter in Papervison3D [...]

Showcase | Bestiario - How to graphically show data in 2D and 3D

05/10/2008 05:00 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

Biskero, is a nice site using PV3D, that shows you several ways to graphically display data. It is one of the showcases, about data display. Hope it can helps you, on your future projects, when handling with graphic data.

Away3d: Desert Ferrari

05/10/2008 04:46 pm by infinite turtles in 3d Flash

With Away3d 2.0, some interesting effects are now possible with the combination of tiled textures, ownCanvas objects and blendModes. Desert Ferrari demonstrates that you don’t necessarily have to raytrace a scene in order to get a polished look, just use some texture mirroring trickery and a multiply blend mode! The source for this demo also shows [...]

Away3d: Salt Flats Ferrari

05/10/2008 04:46 pm by infinite turtles in 3d Flash

With Away3d 2.0, some interesting effects are now possible with the combination of tiled textures, ownCanvas objects and blendModes. Salt Flats Ferrari demonstrates that you don’t necessarily have to raytrace a scene in order to get a polished look, just use some texture mirroring trickery and a multiply blend mode! The source for this demo also [...]

3D Tutorial | Modeling overview of a Mercedes S-Class

05/09/2008 05:44 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

This is not exactly a step by step tutorial about polygon car modeling; it’s more of an overview of the one the processes you can use and some tips that might help anyone having trouble modeling a car. Read Tutorial

Source | Papervision3D & Collada’s

05/09/2008 09:00 am by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

A cool example with source of a very realistic tree, using PV3D and Collada.

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