Posts Tagged Papervision3D
Papervision3D 2.0 – Great White – is out
Posted by zedia.net in Papervision 3D on December 5th, 2007
Today the newest version of papervision3d was released. It’s the alpha for the 2.0 version and the code name is Great White. It has a ton of new features like shaders, animated models, shading, bumpmaping, frustrum camera etc. Tons of words I don’t understand yet, but what is more important to me is that it’s faster; in fact it’s supposed to be about 23% faster.
It’s funny because just last weak I was trying it out, I started with version 1.5, then I went to version 1.7. Two days later I was reading the forums and I kept reading about the Phunky Branch, so I tried it, it was version 1.9. Now just one week later version 2.0 is out, I guess I’ll have to switch again. It seems like a lot as changed in the Great White branch so I suggest reading this articles by John Grden about how to upgrade current papervision3d projects.
Flex problems again
Seems like every time I want to use Flex there is something that prohibits me from doing it. Today I was trying to make a website using papervision3D; what I want to do is use a grid of video planes. So each of my plane has a MovieMaterial Movie has a FLV embedded in it. Well the thing is that you cannot import FLV files in Flex. So it makes it just more complicated in this case to use Flex and Flash together instead of just using Flash. Oh well, no profiler for me this time either.
Papervision3D experiments with models
Posted by zedia.net in Papervision 3D on November 23rd, 2007
I did experiments with papervision3D all day long and let me tell you this: starting by trying to import a collada model might not be the right idea at first. I finally succeeded, but not with the model I wanted … Actually I never got my model to work but at least I know I am doing every thing right in the Flash IDE since it works for other models. I think my problem either comes from the fact that my model had too much polygons in it or we had trouble when exporting the collada file from Maya. I didn’t even code anything, I just used the papervision3D component and panel inside Flash. Its great, but I didn’t get it to work properly. It is supposed to give you a preview as you are designing but that part didn’t work. What did work was the change I was making inside the panel did show up when I compiled the movie.
It’s kinda hard to learn how to use papervision3D, at least the part about importing a model. I know gotoandlearn.com has some nice tutorials not about using model but what helped my the most is this post from John Grden. The video at the end shows you how to use the component and the panel.
Really nice papervision3D website
Posted by zedia.net in Papervision 3D on November 9th, 2007
While browsing the papervision3D blog, I found a link to the new site for the Canon EOS 400D. I can say that it is absolutely amazing. The design is really nice and papervision3D is used in a way that it adds to the experience, not just to show off some cool 3D. It is in fact very subtle and it is that subtility that makes it awesome. Papervision is really nice, but it has some flaws, like the edges of a plane are usually not that smooth, but in this site, they used Papervision3D in a way that it didn’t show. Well nice work!
Just in time papervision3D example
Posted by zedia.net in Papervision 3D on October 11th, 2007
Yesterday I spoke about Papervision3D; well today’s FWA is a site made using Papervision3D and it’s quite amazing. I also found a blog post from the company explaining the process they went trough. Ah yeah, by the way the website is this one, Sony Bravia. Also I have found a tutorial giving you the big steps to make good models for papervision3D. I’ll be sure to read it.
I also read a lot about design patterns today, and I really ask myself if it really applies to Flash and simple interfaces, because implementing a MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern for each and every button seems a bit too much. I’m trying to keep an open mind, but sometimes object-oriented programming seems cool in theory but far from practice… Maybe if I keep on reading…
9-slices scaling, Papervision 3D, Tweener and FlashDevelop
I am currently working on a website with tons of rounded corners, so I’m pretty happy they added 9-slices scaling in Flash 8. The only problem I had today, was that I wanted to apply 9-slices scaling on a mask and it happens that you just can’t. You can’t do it using ActionScript and you can’t use it using the Flash Authoring tool. I don’t know about flash 9, but I sure hope they will get that to work.
I also stumbled upon something that looks pretty cool: Papervision 3D . The name says it, you can use it to do 3D in flash, haven’t tried it yet but it looks sweet. And while browsing their website I found a nice example using Tweener which I spoke off recently. They’ll both deserve more investigation.
Finally, on the same project I am working with all those rounded corner I am using FlashDevelop. I use it because I find the Flash Authoring tool to be really bad (Flash 8 ) for ActionScript. Well I said FlashDevelop was good, but I would rectify what I said, and now say that it is still experimental. I had all sort of problems with it, mostly with the auto-completion tool completing things all the time which I didn’t ask for . Just thought I’d share that with you.
