In this post you can find an overview of two concepts in Papervision: culling and clipping. They are easy to confuse, but both have very important roles. Culling is the process whereby objects that are not seen by the camera are removed from the rendering pipeline, meaning less polygons for the Papervision engine to have [...]
It’s rather difficult to attract the web audience to your website and make them stay longer there. Developers and designers always have to invent something new. And an animated logo certainly does catch the eye. This tutorial shows you how to create a moving 3D text logo with Papervision. The author took the inspiration for [...]
This tutorial continues our series “Papervision For Beginners”. Please note that it follows on from tutorial Basic Template Usage and if you haven’t read that post, you’d better do so. This time the author shows how to give a spinning cone a texture by modifying a few lines in the code from the previous article. [...]
For all of Papervision’s technical brilliance, there is one major factor that prevents it being used in more Flash applications: it’s complicated. You need a good understanding of ActionScript, 3D concepts and some fairly low level resource loading and handling techniques in order to use Papervision. Fortunately Flash has introduced the concept of components, which [...]
There are a few physics engines available for Flash (WOW and APE), but they seem to be quite basic or limited to 2D. In this article from our collection of Papervision tutorials the author uses a Java physics engine called Traer to create an impressive physics demonstration. And so one Java decompiler and a few [...]
A Flex / Actionscript development tutorial that shows you how to use the Papervision 3D egine to create 3D Flash effects in your webpage. This article looks at the various shading techniques available in Papervision 3D. Shading is a technique used to highlight a 3D model against a light source. Papervision 3D supports a number [...]
How often do you want to move an object by some predefined amount over a certain period of time? Like “move to this point in 2 seconds”. This sort of movement over a timescale is the cornerstone of animation and scripting. Unfortunately to implement this in code is quite tedious. You first need to work [...]
Read this article to learn how to create a number of individual planes, each one textured with a small section of an embedded image. Each column of the overall image sequentially decomposes into its individual planes and flies off the side of the screen. The actual movement is handled by the Tweener class and after [...]
In this tutorial you can learn how to build a controlled lightsaber using WiiFlash and Papervision3D. Your goal will be to learn how to use a wiimote within flash and how to combine it with papervision3D. Afterwards, of course, you can use this app to train for your Jedi mastership. The article includes multiple screenshot [...]
Here’s the tutorial about how to create a 3d spectrum display from a sound file with Papervision3d and Flash. For this demo application, you will use the latest version of Papervision3d with the code name GreatWhite. You need to include 7 Papervision classes to begin. The Camera3D class enables you to focus on a 3d [...]
