Flash Papervision3D tutorial

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Introduction

Learning goals

• Create a simple 3D scence with Papervison3D

Flash and Papervision3D level

• Flash 9 / CS3
• Papervision 2.0

Prerequisites

• Some ActionScript knowledge, e.g.

Moving on

Level and target population

• Absolute beginners

Quality

Download and install

Download

In nov 2008, Papervision 3D can be downloaded from the SVN repository (read the Revision control system tutorial)

The subversion URL can change, e.g.

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/as3/trunk/ (nov 2008)

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ (before)

So create a new directory somewhere. On windows you can use a GUI client like like, under linux go to the new directory and type:

subversion checkout http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/as3/trunk/

You then should have a directory "trunk" with a sub-directory structure like this:

bin
build
docs
examples
src
.svn

CS3 setup

• CS3 must be able to find the this library. Read Flash using ActionScript libraries tutorial if you want learn more about this.
• Open the File->Publish Settings - Flash tab
• Then click on the Settings ... button next to the ActionScript version.
• Click on the "target" "Browse to Path" icon and select the "src" directory of the Papervison library

E.g. I keep the subversion tree on my linux machine and copy/rename the trunk directory to my laptop. So I entereded this:

c:\lib\pv3d\src

The only thing that matters is that Flash can find the contents of the "src" directory

Links

General

• PaperVision3D (PV3D) is another popular library and you get to see some fish.
• Papervision 3D blog. Includes all the information (downloads, tutorials, links, etc.)
• PV3World. Testing ground, tutorial and other resources.
• Papervision 3D downloads (at google code). There is also a CS3 component for version 1.5 made in 2007, Current (nov 2008) version is 3.0.
• Papervision3D documentation (Packages and classes)

Tutorials

• pv3d.org
• Papervision 3D Tutorials and Papervision3D Tutorials in Flex3
• Papervision 2
• Papervision tutorials at Bright Hub.