{"id":43,"date":"2009-02-28T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-02-28T05:04:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T05:04:32","slug":"pure-unadulterated-actionscript-geekery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/28\/pure-unadulterated-actionscript-geekery\/","title":{"rendered":"pure unadulterated actionscript geekery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man oh man.  One link clicked led to another, and suddenly I&#8217;m <em>obsessed<\/em> with <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/papervision3d\/\">PaperVision3D<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with this link (which you&#8217;ve already seen if you <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter<\/a>): the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecodazoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Eco Zoo<\/a>.  If you haven&#8217;t seen it, please clicky! It&#8217;s fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>PaperVision&#8217;s been used for a number of neat projects, but the Eco Zoo is a <em>work of art<\/em>.  So I started searching for stuff on the train in the morning (thank you, iPhone) and turned up a bunch of great links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/papergem.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>A Whiter Shade of Paper<\/b><\/a>: really in-depth site with technical articles and example  code on a PaperVision-based game the author is working on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabianvercuiel.com\/internet-websites-applications\/installing-papervision3d-flash-flex\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Installing PaperVision in Flex or Flash<\/strong><\/a>: good notes on the basic getting started.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rozengain.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/export-your-blender-objects-straight-to-away3d-papervision3d-and-sandy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ActionScript class exporter<\/strong> for Blender.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.papervision3d.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The PaperVision3D Dev Blog<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.iainlobb.com\/2008\/08\/meta4orce-creating-3d-flash-games-with.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meta4orce notes by Iann Lobb<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; some really good notes on doing commercial work with PV3D.  Oh, and if you want to play the games he made, the site is still up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/switch\/meta4orce\/launch.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">at the BBC<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebleedelisle.com\/?p=203\" target=\"_Blank\"><strong>Seb Lee-Delise<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Changing the materials on a cube dynamically.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydayflash.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/07\/pixel-precision-in-papervision3d\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Everyday Flash<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Pixel precision in Papervision 3D<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those who didn&#8217;t know, you can either use the <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.adobe.com\/wiki\/display\/flexsdk\/Flex+SDK\" target=\"_blank\">open source Flex SDK<\/a> or, if you&#8217;re a student, you can get a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brianflove.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/28\/flex-3-pro-free-for-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">free copy of Flex Builder 3<\/a> by sending them proof of enrollment.  I did it; I got a serial in about an hour later, although YMMV.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I have time to sit down and actually <em>play<\/em> with any of this&#8230;  But it&#8217;s fun to learn about.  Oh, and I like PaperVision3D because the API is very well thought out and very Flash AS3-like; if you don&#8217;t like it there are other options.  There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsoin.com\/asblog\/2008\/11\/18\/comparatifs-moteurs-3d-et-le-plus-performant-est\/\">a nice comparsion on the four major 3D engines for Flash here<\/a> (warning: it&#8217;s in French).  Lots of talk about speed of object creation, memory requirements, and so on.  It&#8217;s always good to be informed of options before starting a project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man oh man. One link clicked led to another, and suddenly I&#8217;m obsessed with PaperVision3D. It all started with this link (which you&#8217;ve already seen if you follow me on Twitter): the The Eco Zoo. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, please clicky! It&#8217;s fantastic. PaperVision&#8217;s been used for a number of neat projects, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-flash","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}