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Papervision3D Movement- Going Where No MovieClip Has Gone Before

John Lindquist
September 2, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (14)

Papervision3D Movement- Going Where No MovieClip Has Gone Before

If you’re anything like me, you remember how excited you were years ago when you first wrote a simple line of code, ball._x++, in an onEnterFrame event and gleefully watched a ball fly across the stage. I promise you that little moving ball ain’t got nothin’ on what you’re about to learn here.

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Textures (WireFrame, Bitmap, MovieAsset, Video, etc.) PaperVision3D

John Lindquist
May 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)

Materials
Why do you need to learn about materials in Papervision3D? Take a sphere for example: How do you determine whether the sphere is a globe, an eye, or a basketball? You only know by which material is mapped to the sphere.

This article will cover the basics of the materials available through Papervision3D and teach you how to add materials to Planes. Let's get started, we’ve got a lot of “material” to cover:

Papervision3D: Part 1- Foundation and 3D Object Basics

John Lindquist
February 21, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (110)

Papervision3D opens a whole new dimension to World Wide Web. The third dimension! Thanks to a core group of ActionScript geniuses who understand mathematical representations of 3D space way better than you or me, we can now easily add a new perspective to our Flash applications. This article will cover what’s necessary to set up your first Papervision3D application as well as introduce you to adding 3D objects. Put on your 3-dimensional hat and let’s get started!

Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces
Christian Crumlish

This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common... Continue Reading
Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application
Russ Ferguson

If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Decorator Design Pattern
Sean Moore

Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
Flash to iPhone
Veronique Brossier

The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading

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