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Papervision3D Movement- Going Where No MovieClip Has Gone Before

John Lindquist
September 2, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (12)

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 (5)

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 (84)

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!

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework
Tony Hillerson

Let’s get this out of the way first thing. It’s Mah-tay, not M-eight. Like the drink, the creators of Mate, Nahuel Faronda and Laura Arguello, come from Argentina. If you’ve never tried Mate (the drink), you should - it’s tasty.... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz
Tony Hillerson

With a name like Swiz, it has to be good, right? Welcome back, friends, to part four of our ongoing effort to understand these four Flex frameworks. This time we’re going to look at Swiz, a relative newcomer, created by... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC
Tony Hillerson

Last week we took a look at how to clean up our Twitter client by using Cairngorm to separate the concerns according to the time honored MVC architectural pattern. Now we’re going to see how it feels to work with... Continue Reading
The Design of a Rich Spatial Flex Viewer for GeoWeb 2.0
Moxie Zhang

Despite all the movement toward Web 2.0, GeoWeb is still in the Web 1.0 age. In the quest to establish the Geospatial Web or GeoWeb 2.0, a rich spatial Flex Viewer has been created, and it’s free. All source code... Continue Reading