Things have been super busy these days. I finally got a spare minute and grabbed the latest build of Papervision3D. I decided to spend a couple hours playing around with it. There’s lots of buzz around the impressive new 3D engine.
In case you haven't run across it yet, Papervision3D is a 3d rendering engine for Flash. It has been ported (in alpha currently) to AS3 to take advantage of the AVM2 performance increases. It features linear texture mapping, optimized for rendering speed and quality. It can load Collada scenes you export from Maya, Max and Blender. It looks like there are some big brains on this one and I am excited to see how development progresses.
The first most obvious use is a new level of flash gaming. The bar is REALLY going to be raised in this arena. The less obvious use is this can really allow people to showcase products and display data in more intuitive and engaging ways.
You often get to see good technology surface and some impressive demos developed… but rarely does something so quickly get integrated into mainstream projects. Coming from the agency side of things, I know of projects already being developed for major brands using this technology; and that is great.
Things just keep getting more exciting in this space.
Check out this Papervision 3D demo that shows some cool potential to queue up multiple videos without crushing the processor.
Hey, nice video effect.
Can I ask what calculations you used to rotate the cube or camera to end up at the desired face. I’m trying to do the same thing here and can’t get it to work
I used (cubeInstance).rotationX and (cubeInstance).rotationY to rotate the cube to the correct side on an interval… something like:
cube.rotationY = Math.round((desiredYPos – cube.rotationY)/3);
the end points for the X and Y rotation are 0, 90, 180, 270
HTH
velloff, this is cool stuff. How do I get the papervision3d engine? I did not find any link for download.
I dug around the web for it. The ‘right’ thing to do is join the email list at:
http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/Papervision3D_osflash.org
well its cool as far as papervision3d implementation is concern ….. you can find papervision3d at
http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/
the coolest thing is the MAC advertisements VS Vista
What type of material the library of Papervision I use to apply videos loaded into a movieclip??