Another article from series of programming Papervision 3D tutorials demonstrates the use of Flash filters with Papervision 3D objects. Papervision has the ability to use some interesting effects like blur, glow and drop shadows, to add some visual flare to 3D renderings, and the good news is that, just like Flash, these effects are very [...]

Andy Zupko’s explanations on the very basics of how you can use Quaternions in Papervision, and how to get the motion you see in the demo.  For those who don’t have a solid mathematical background it may be a difficult concept to undrstand. But the author gives forcible arguments in favour of quaternions. The most [...]

A Flex / Actionscript development tutorial that shows you how to  display a movie as an animated texture on a Papervision 3D model. Basically it uses Flex’s ability to embed and play a video file.  Currently Flex does not have the ability to embed FLV files (which is a native Flash video format). However, there [...]

Here is how you can animate a camera in your 3D scene along a path with smooth bezier curves. The effect can be made by using Tweener. Necessary code is supported with comments and simple example. Besides, the article provides an additional documentary and links concerning bezier curves within Tweener.

Shadows can come in handy for bringing life to your 3D object. They will add that extra dimension to the scene. Here is another tutorial which shows how to implement shadow effect easily. Don’t be afraid of the number of code lines - much of them are the author’s comments. The code hightlighted in red [...]

Andy Zupko’s class will let you cast the shadow of any object onto any plane that has a MovieMaterial. It’s a unique method which enables casting precise shadows onto a plane. The plane is singled out here because if you do anything other than a plane it will be much heavier on the CPU.
This technique [...]

Very informative and detailed article on how to create a Papervision Planetarium. Demo shows real constellations found on sites like NOMAD (they use standard astro-celestial coordinates). The author used particle technique to make this planetarium. In general, there are lots of things things you can do with particles: make fire, smoke, a flock of birds, [...]

Today pixel perfection became one of the important components of a great website. While achieving pixel precision in Papervision 3D you may face such problems:
- a material should be rendered as in 1:1 scale of the original texture
- a precise pixel level match between 2d and 3d content is necessary
This tutorial offers some magic formula [...]