Hey,

I am trying to create folding animation to a plane, now I am using a as3mod bend function but when bend the plane, it change the original size since it is a bend instead a fold. anyone could tell me about folding a plane resources or samples. I am using pv3d to create the plane... thanks

i want 3d card flip using flash as3 can u pls provide

I spend much time on quternions but result is not good. I don't understand it. I can resolve codes but I can't construct in my mind. For example usually rotations made by copying target objects position by object.transform. If I want from some point in 3D to another point in 3D, How will I construct necessary quternions. About these , are there general step by step explanations, book,etc... Thank. I am in a mess. Thanks again..

i want to know how to use pv3d in flash builder 4.5, with flex project not as project.
i need a example.

hey all ,
 I want know how to clone dae model (with skiining and animation ) in pV3d
. i am having no trouble in displaying and controlling tha animations of a single dae model , but when i try to    clone it , it clones but without skinning and no animation data .
if anybody is familiar with this problem please help .
i am using maya to export dae models adn using daemc class ..
thanks .
gaurav.

Great site thanks for sharing valuable info. Check out http://www.aextremewealthmecha...

I have purchased your 3D Globe width 3D Grid Flash Gallery from Flashmint.  It is a wonderful template but  since there are very few instructions on how to use it I was wondering if you could help me with a couple of issues.  First of all I want to include the 3D Globe in my personal webpage as page 7.index if I change the current "index.html" which now opens your template to 7.index  will the template still function correctly.  I know that I need to upload all of the files that came with my template.  Second, the map locations are not  correct even though I have gone to the www.findlatitudeandlongitude.c... site which you give.  The locations are wrong and they move all over the map.  Finally, the instructions say that you need flashCS3 to work with the template which is what I have  BUT when I put all of the 3D Globe files into my original webpage files which by the way were also produced on Flash CS3, I get a message that says I need to have flash to see the  template.  Does that mean that when and if I upload it to the internet ONLY people with FlashCS3 will be able to view it???? Do I need to have some special code from Papervision so that my 3D Globe will work and be able to be seen on the internet?   I would appreciate any help you can give me.

Hi !
Sorry for my english, i'am French.
I work with a Sphere with a Camera3D in.
I have a problem with my texture (MovieClipMetrial).
my texture has Doublesided option to see her inside my Sphere, my texture is revearse !
left is right and right is left, so my text on my differents buttons appears right to left.
I try to fix this problem with :            
- texture.maxU = -1;
- texture.tiled = true;
It's Work but, all my buttons in my interactive texture disappear ? I don't understand !

If you can help me, i thank you in advance !

I want to develop web based 3d Virtual book Shop/store(website) of duration 6months maximum

I need Help in choosing Technologies/platforms/languages below
I'm Confused in choosing 1 of them (or suggest me I any other not listed )

Google O3d , WebGL , Java3d ,X3D ,VRML , Unity3D , Infinity, HTML 5

for the below project

project description::The Shop is as it is physically , the online customer will go to the
shop website when the user entered the URL of website the website opens
and ask for MALE OR FEMALE—when the customer select one it will enter in
the shop(A BOOK STORE IN MY MIND) with the selected MALE OR FEMALE
character/AVATAR—now he is allowed freely to move in the shop and
interact freely with different products (preview the books ,Cdz and
other media available) and add to cart and at the end SHOP I/ Pay for it
I want another functionality i.e online users that currently on that
webpage are also visible to the other user on that website the admin
panel will allow me to customize the web content if it is going to
deploy for another shop some how like this

I'm a beginner so plz suggest me tools and some thing that make it simple and done

Will see

hey I am trying to make a (Leporello= http://www.gekkepop.nl/uploade... ) effect in actionscript 3 any change anyone knows where I can find more information about this?

i wanted to animate in FLARToolkit, my problem is my models was from 3DSMax i export that to .DAE file (include animation) but the animation that i created won't go in FLARToolkit, i think the problem is looping function, because the renderer is in loop function the animation won't go, any hint for this???

there is a plug in for open collada DAE. you need to install it first. Then, it should be no problem to export animations from max. Inside the script, you need to put some words next to your DAE (true,null,true). If you decide to not make it loop then you cantry (true,null).. put it inside the bracket neway..

hi

hi there. Im not sure if there is an example like this here somewhere on the site but what Im looking or is the manipulation of a plane in 3d space with just the mouse over, so if the mouse goes up, that part of the plane is "drawn" to the mouse and same with left, right and down. Any ideas please? Thanks.

how to add Hotspot in Pano?how to fix Hotspot position? http://www.mbmuseum.org/ like this link.

Hello,
I think that Papervision 3D lacks a really good example of shaders as can be seen

http://unitzeroone.com/blog/20...

I've yet to see an example with sources provided that shows off such smooth rendering.
To my knowledge the above example is built fully on papervision but I Cannot

Hey John great stuff on the site. I'm curious if you've ever tried loading in a collada file and then drawing on the that object with the mouse. Basically combine the drawing api with a collada object. I appreciate it in advance.

I need to make an interactive like Google street view using only papervision3d and flash....where the controls go back and forth....a similar link is http://www.matthiasdittrich.co... Am trying to create a view of a street ....with characters as links....so as u move forward in the street in perspective u get a view of the buildings and other stuff... please help...

Sorry for english...
I think i found mistake in org\papervision3d\objects\parsers\Collada.as (932 and earily)

line 508 (function getTexture)

var material:XML = COLLADA.library_materials.material.(@id == name)[0];

there is confilct with variable 'name' and something else (may be with method 'name' of XML)

I changed 'name' to 'idname' (entiire function) and all began OK.
I don't know where to report this problem (or mistake). Where to report this?
Help me, pls

EtherNexus:
I wish I could play around with Windows API among flash.

I want to make a twisted or reshaped object and move camera through the object along a path. I mean, how to make paths for guiding objects movement. Thanks..

very good!

How can i load an external .swf made in papervisiond3d? if i load a regular swf, it loads well if its papervision3d, it doesn't work. I searched all over but I cant find an answer. Others are looking for it too, but no response that I've seen so far.

i have the same problem and stage is the cause, i use the fonction added_to_stage. The swf loaded but papervision has no time to run. I guess,...

how can I add a sprite or MovieClip to this class. If I extends the BAsicView class and trying

to add a Sprite
like below method:

...... starting ......... public function FullScreenCube

var sp:Sprite = new Sprite();
scene.addChild(sp);

I know it will work Properly if I use DisplayObject3d, but just want to know is there any way

to
add a Sprite or MovieClip dynamically to scene???

I love pv3d but some time it hurt me a lot due to some unexpected code error. I just can't

freely writing the code as like normal as3.0. I think in pv3d there are so many boundation.

Please guide me. Actually I want to make an application like this links.

http://www.citroen.co.uk/home/...

see the above links
how can I create this kind of slider? If there is different sizes images? I have tried carousel

method but facing problem to x,yrotation and z axis problem.

Here is my demo link :http://www.demo.talash.net/~de...
Here is my source

code:http://www.demo.talash.net/~de...

Arindam [ arindam.mojumder@gmail.com ]

i have found it for a long time, it's very great

just fresher come in

i am using flash builder 4 and Fms 3.
i have conneted fms and to play the video file sucessfully.
if the video contains any audio, i want to display in text what the
person told in audio.
For example see this link
http://www.englishcentral.com/...
i want do this same thing in flex
pls help me
regards
athi

you have to use cuepoint method.

Can you explain that method?

Great Tutorials, I seem to have a real problem with flash builder http service for connecting to my scripts for a member login through php a tutorial would be great.

A Cube with MovMateiral with input textfield and a SimpleButton responding the mouse events, like selecting input text field and simple button.

Hi,
Im facing a problem, is there a way to fill my bitmap to collada model at a point, for example i want to add a logo to my collada Model

Thanx in Advance
Mudassir

how to apply texture to an individual face in papervision 3d

Hi, is it possible in papervision3d to nicely stretch a model? Sort of like scale9 for images but in 3D. I guess it would be scale27 then.. So let's say I have a model and I can divide it in 3 parts in every dimension, where the outer parts need to remain as is but the middle part is easy to stretch. I could then render the model with arbitrary dimensions and it would still look good. How would you do this with papervision?

hello, I'm trying to learn a little more about the matrix3D. Anybody know a way to know which side of the cube is facing the camera, through the matrix3D (like front, top, left....). I've seen this solution: http://forum.papervision3d.org... but only works when the face is aligned with the axis and does not work when the faces have a different rotation despite being facing the camera. help?? Someone??

Also ment to say it would play music like a keyboard or the tenori-on like this http://lab.andre-michelle.com/...

cheers

try andres big wonder http://tinyurl.com/3642vs6

Im after a musical sphere/ball that you controll and rotate with the mouse cursor. maybe it could bounce aswell with music. Any ideas? cheers

I am trying to draw a 'window' on a plane (which represents a wall); basically cut a hole in it to see through. I would like to see an example if it is even possible with pv3d.

Flash player has a lot of CPU and Memory problems. Everyone knows its heavy and very slow, specially in old computers. If we optimize our code we could get a faster and more stable application. What i'm asking you is if you could publish documentation tips about how to optimize actionscript code. If possible publish some video tutorials about that. I will appreciate a lot and all flash community too.

you posted earlier about 'things every sr flash developer should know' - it would be good to go through that list and do tutorials on each of those listed, i think that would be a very valuable resource.

Hey John,
I have a job opening for a company in Draper, Ut. they are looking for a Flash Action Script Developer for a contract. The last person we had sent there for a contract was brought on full time, and loves it. if you know anyone that would be interested, please send them my way Aaron@professionalrecruiterinc.com or give me a call at 801.327.9957

Why not bring back AS2? Some people like living in the past, and not everyone has access to a fancy IDE or mainstream web browser.

I am sorry if I am redundant here. I am exporting a maya file for the first time to papervision using Maya2008 and am having extreme texture flipping issues. Can anyone give me some idea what I need to do or how I need to export to avoid this from happening...It's basically a cabinet with doors opening and it's just not looking good.
Thanks so much!

@prince1709 I would say embed the font (not every one has a chinese font on his pc) and the use Text3D I would guess. (not tryed yet. Also new and expirimenting) http://papervision3d.googlecod...

what's the easiest or most recommended way to make chinese characters on a cube(6 sides, 1 character on 1 side) 3D?

I'm really interested in finding a tutorial on animating a Collada file, and possibly animating a Collada file in Augmented Reality (preferably with a voice). Is that doable?

Hi everyone,

My name is Freddy and I've wasted nearly a month of my life on this place ;-) I found it after being recommended by a few friends who have been hanging out here for quite some time.

I am a writer, graphics artist, photographer and just about anything else that comes up around the office. Aside from the above interests i'm really into scifi as I know that is so much more out there to be discovered, and a feeling that the universe is just teaming with life.

Well, I hope that I get to know more people here, share some experience and start learning. Have a greay day!

Hi John,

What is the best way to apply shading to a wall of images and create a spotlight effect?

Would you apply shading to each image or is there a way to apply shading to the container of the images?
Thanks
Chris

Mr. John….
I attended your RMI pv3d workshop in Chicago early this year…
Great workshop btw.
At the workshop you provided sample code/tutorials for us to study from; Unfortunately, my laptop that had all the tutorials from the workshop had been stolen from my apartment.
I am now with a new computer and was wondering if there is anyway possible that I can gain access to those chicago pv3d sample code/tutorials.
It will be a great help if some how those files could be accessible.
Hope all is well.
Thanks
Kenneth N.

Hi I'm a green hand,
I have no website and I'm not be good at wording about English.
please condone me about this.
I'm trying to use "BasicView" in "UIComponent".
But I canot adjust position of the view.
The 3D view always at the center of screen,how can i let "BasicView" center about "UIComponet" with out the screen pixel change or UIComponet location change?
can you save me?

Sorry I was not clear enough, it`s about collision two different objects and one of them is child of a third object..
thanks a lot

Hi, John,
I`m very new in pv3d and AS, can you please tell me( few words or line of code is enough), how should I do hitTestObject with the child of an object

Hello John,

I am the Organizer of the DC Digital Animation Group in Washington DC. I have recently been dabbling around with Papervision. My colleague and I have been promoting Papervision and have been playing around with the tools to make an augmented reality demonstration in flash.

I am very interested in seeing a Papervision training demo in the Washington DC Area. There are a number of web design studios and design firms in the area that I know would be interested in a Papervision training presentation.

Please contact me.

Thank you

What my thought is adobe should add papervision3D in flash and add Help in the F1 Key :)

Hi John,

When i attempt to access a plane(extends for displayobject3d) 's width and height,but i find
there is no interface.How can i access it?

Also, When i lean a plane used change plane.transferm.n12 's value,How can i access it
width and height again?

Need you helps, Thanks!

Best wishes!

I use pv3d in FLEX 3.4. But I get a plane to addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_CLICK,plane_objectClickHandler).
When I click the plan. NO effect....... Please Help...
I use PV3D 2.0

I have the same problem. Is it a bug of pv3d 2.0?

Hello!
Fist, I want to say THANK YOU for your real hard work!
You are the best! You have REALY great website! It is a treasure for me, and I think for a lot of people too. Here I find a lot of interesting and very useful stuff.
But something I can’t find ;-). Can you make some real cool examples with PV3D and AS3MOD. I found some tuts here, but they are simple. I already know it.
What I am looking for is a great inspiration, because deep inside I feel PV3D and AS3MOD can rock! But my imagination cant give me anything beside simple twists, bednds, …
Can you help me with such a problem? )))
If you haven’t got time to make tuts, you can give a link on such great examples?
Thank you!
I wish you happiness, luck, and money!
PS: Sorry if my English not the best :-)

How would I parse the following XML in Flash CS4?

I’m looking for a freelancer to do a little flash job. I need a 3D ball ColorPicker.

The ball never change your colour, it’s a colorpicker…

The user will turn the ball and select some colour (drag and drop to turn and double click to select), the mouse scroll function like zoom in and zoom out. When he have select the colour, this colour its marked like selected in the ball (some mark than indicate than this point it’s marked).

Get and Set methods:
1. A javascript method to get the RGB selected colour (I will get the selected colour and save that in a BD, with other users informations)
2. A javascript method to set a colour that will be marked (to load a colour saved before). In this set function, I will pass 2 parameters: the RGB colour to be marked and a id of some html div that will have the users informations inside it, so the ball will mark the RGB colour and put this div like a tooltip, like google earth that mark some point and put a tooltip (quick view) with the content of this point

You DON’T have to do any web, form or database, just the flash object.

Send me any question that you may have…
=]

Thanks a lot
Marcio Maia
Marciomaianunes@hotmail.com

Hi John,

I am having a hard time augmenting an imported collada file. Could you make a tutorial about this?

Thanks,
Pan

Hi John,

Great work and thank you. I am also glad to hear that you have found employment.

I was wondering if you would be able to post a tutorial on how to do what the GE AR has done (importing a model and adding functionality to the augmented model). Right now I am coding in actionscript and I am using Blender to make models for augmented reality.

Thank you very much,
Pan

I would love to see a pv3d "lite" version, where you just can move and rotate in 3d space. little choice of primites etc.. for use in banners.

slimmed down camera and render engine. no materials or lights, just textures.

to get down to 20kb-ish would be sweet.! :D

Why? so I can use it for banners. :)

Use papervision3D and the vertex3D or pixel3D classes to generate a contour map. This would be nice for data visualization.

Hi John,

impressive work. I stumpled over the cumulus project and the implementation in flex and really liked it.
ttp://carvalhar.com/#/en/blog/...
I tried to enhance the cumulus with bidirectional relations (e.g. arrows) by using Papervision3D, but don't get there. Would you do consulting on this issue? We are working on a free interaction checking service for medication.

Cheers Marco

Show us how to implement dynamic bsp trees in Papervision as the Alternativa engine does in the following demo: http://blog.alternativaplatfor...

Hi there

I would love to know how to have the sliced cube effect as a transition effect in a viewstack in Flex.

Any help?

Thanks in advance

Hey man, good tutorials here. I've referenced them in the past. I work with coding as3/papervision3d and using the TUIO multitouch library on multitouch interactive tables similar to the Microsoft Surface.
The TUIO library uses TouchEvents, which are the same thing as MouseEvents for it's objects interactions, which dont translate to InteractiveScene3DEvents, so it is hard to interact with objects created in PV3D. I have kinda gotten around this my applying materials with buttons on them to the 3D objects, which then have TouchEvents on them, but it is a long and tedious process.
My request::
I was wondering if you know of a way to make a 3D object by itself interactive using the MouseEvents and not the InteractiveScene3DEvents. Please let me know, thanks!
-Nolan

I´m doing some testings with Augmented Reality, and noticed that when the marker is out of camera´s sight, the object is still visible. Could you please post an example on how to make the 3d object to desapear/animate when the marker moves out of the camera?

Thanks a lot

How can I achieve this effect?
http://designplusplus.googleco...

靠!全是英文.!

Hi John,

Thanks for the time that you have put into your tutorials...I have been learning on the fly from your posts. I am currently working on using PV3D with Flex Charts. I am able to add a Flex Bar Chart to a PV Cube and it looks great. My issue is with the chart datatips that appear on hover. The datatips do not position correctly next to the corresponding bar. I am wondering if you have experienced this problem? I also have the source if you would be willing to give it a look. Thanks.

- DL

Hi John,

I'm trying to replace the material on specific faces of a DAE depending on their y values. I'm using a similar setup as the one in your example of the holy sphere, but it appears that the geometry object of the DAE is null. The object is visible, and the algorithm works on PV3D's primitives. I just can't figure out how to access the faces. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

-Matt

Dear John
I used 3dsMax to create two objects: car1 and car2. And then export to .dae files (car1.dae & car2.dae). Now I put them in Flex by used PV3D. The scenario is that when car1 collide with car2, the color of car1 will change. So I used the “hitTestObject”. But I found the “hitTestObject” just check the center of the coordinates which in the 3dsMax not check the bounding sphere. If I want to achieve my purpose how can I do? (If use PV3D can do this?)

Hello John!

I would like to know if it's even possible to apply segments to VectorShape3D object?

Hi John,

i would like to see how to structure code, to be able to switch ("transition") between two different "rooms". I.e. i have a room with different doors and each door leads in a different room.

Thanks for your great work, i´m learning so much from you.
Greetings from germany :)

Carsten

I'm very curious to see how to correct design patterns with Papervision. Also for the life of me I cant work out how to import Vector (svg) artwork.

Thanks for this blog.

{m}

I would like to see some examples of using the "InteractiveSceneManager" and event propagation in PV3D...thanks in advance.

I notice there are a lot of pv3d apps that have a little window to the top left (of course it could be oriented anywhere) that displays the memory used and the amount of faces and such being displayed. I know how to get the system memory, but could you shed some light on some typical information displayed, what it means, and how to get it?

I would like to know how to load and rotate a 3d model with clickable hot spots like this: http://channel.nationalgeograp...

I would like to see an example of a 3D scatterplot with a regression plane in a Cartesion framework.

Bonjour John,
I'd love to know if is possible to use tweenLite with moveForward();
tweenLite.to(mc, 1,{moveForward(20)?????});

Merci!
PS:(sorry to post in the wrong place before)

I would like to know if there's a way to sort a Collada and another non primitive DisplayObject3D in a similar way than primitives can do, using viewportLayers.

sorry for my english and thank you for this incredibly useful blog

hi john,
i followed your box2dflash part 3 example and change the boxes to ragdolls (from box2dflash file example) but it is been unsuccessful. in the debugdraw the 2d object shows exactly how it should look like but the 3d object look like it been cramp together.well my request is can u show an example how to make a proper 3d ragdolls?

thanks

Hello John,
Thank you for putting up nice sample always. just wonder if it is possible to do tween guide with papervision...

thx so much.
mochi

id love to see an example of how to create a cube and then 'open' the cube by laying down the sides of the cube flat like paper almost like origami...

Hey

I am trying to make the iphone labyrinth with PV3D and jiglib.
http://labyrinth.codify.se/

i have a problem, i want to make a floor and four walls around it. And i want this to rotate all these walls respect to one point. how do i do this using jiglib and pv3d. i know i have to use jconstraintpoint, but it’s not working for me :( please help me.

Thnaks

some dice would be nice! like "get the glass" webgame, with physics

hello John Lindquist
can you teach us the class of Matrix3D.
the difference calculateMultiply and calculateMultiply3x3
thanks

Hi John,
First of all, thanks for taking the time to share with us these great examples.

I would love to see an example of an hyperbolic display using PV3D, along the lines of Walrus. I believe the graph viewing part would be straightforward, but adding the hyperbolic distortion on top of it would make it much more challenging. Also not sure if all the primitives available in Java3D are also available in PV3D - maybe this would make a great example for a transition tutorial?

Thanks,
Nascif
http://www.caida.org/tools/vis... perhaps more

I see I'm not alone in my hunt for a thorough explanation detailing how to add standard flash/flex components (mx.controls.Button) to a panel at runtime, most importantly *without* referring to an mxml component already on the stage (). Say I want to create 50 panels and add a Button and a Label to each Panel, I can't seem to figure out what's required. I've tried creating MovieClips, adding the Button to the MovieClip and then wrapping the MC in a MovieMaterial, but that's not working. Is this even possible?

Hi,

Using your "Looking around the inside of a Sphere" sample how can I limit the looking area?

Cheers

Hello John,

got a question for you, is it possible to create a carousel like this : http://dev.bigyouth.fr/papervi... keeping the perspective the same even dureing the rotationY ... I 've tried somethings but i didn't succed in doing it : http://dev.bigyouth.fr/papervi...

Thanks for your help !!!

Hi I have been trying to do the Happy New Year tutorial but have it work with the FlarToolKit, I am stuck with it would love to see some examples with FlarToolkit there is a lot of source code out there but noting that explains it well and is more then a cube.
Thanks

Please ignore my last post!
It turned out that the problem was the geometry itself!! :)
everything is working like a charm now!
thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
cheers!
R.

Hey John! respect for your mind! :)
I integrated the free quaternion free rotation example in a project I'm developing right now.
Everything works great and for the first time in my life I'm loving matrixes ;)

I noticed one thing though and it is that the rotation stuck very often and it is not fluid. I'm pretty sure that the problem is because I'm using a collada object and not a sphere! and my guess is that the ray does not hit some part of the mesh causing this stockiness :(

I tried using a invisible sphere and the passing the values of the transforms of the sphere to my object using copy3x3... the problem persists. :(

Is there a way to take the values of the transform of the sphere (which fluidly rotates ) to normal rotationX ,Y, Z values? so I can use normal rotations on my collada object? or is there some thing I have to alter in order to have my object rotate fluidly? some special settings for non primitive objects and quaternions??

many many thanks
greetings
R.

Great Website with fine tutorials!
I´m searching for a tutorial about clickable DAE objects. I´ve only found tutorials about clickable primitives, but it´s not the same with DAE objects. I have a DAE file exported from 3D Studio Max which contains several objects with textures. Each object should be clickable. I want to use it for navigation on my website.
(Sorry for my English. I´m from Germany)
Thanks
Manuel