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Well, the first thing I have done in Papervision3D is a replica of what I essentially did with the DistortionTweener (or actually the reason I made the DistortionTweener). It is much easier to do and takes a lot less to do (the original DistortionTweener, with research, took me about a week to do while this took me about an hour). Keep in mind the code is probably not super optimized as this is THE first thing I’ve done with PV3D. Read more »

After writing about Eclipse/FDT3/Papervision3D and my heavy usage of templates to speed up my workflow, the natural thing to do was to create a Papervision3D template to use in conjunction with FDT3. You can grab the template from the Downloads page at any time (if I update it in the future, the newest version will be there with a note on when it was updated) or by clicking here. Read more »

I’ve recently decided to take the plunge and start playing around a bit with Papervision3D. I’ve seen too many cool things coming out of that camp and I wanted to get my hands down and dirty and experimenting with the possibilities to move my work forward. I use Eclipse/FDT3 on a Mac so getting up and running with PV3D was relatively simple. Read more »

As you can see, I’ve added sponsors to the right hand sidebar. Not only did I pick sites that I think are actually worth signing up for, but if you sign up by clicking one of those you’re helping the site so please do if you have some free time. It’s well worth signing up with those sites as they have some great source files as well as components. It will help people like yourself who come here to try and learn to look at other’s source files. Plus, in the case of FlashDen, the source files are VERY cheap and well worth the money. Have fun!

There are some things that I want to write about on this blog that I feel like I can’t do as of yet because some of them are geared more towards Eclipse/FDT3 users or at least the way I use those tools. That being said, I figured I should give a rundown of how I install Eclipse and FDT3 and how I set up my environment. FDT comes with a hefty price tag, that’s for sure, but it’s well worth it if you are serious about Flash development. If you just want to try it out, there is a 30-day trial so you can use that for now. Read more »

I’ve updated the Extend links in the right sidebar to include a bunch of engines you can use to extend Flash’s capabilities. Stuff that’s been around for a while like 3D engines as well as some of the newer physics engines that are coming out. This will also help me in the future to keep track of all these things as I start to delve into them.

I’ve also updated the Downloads section with my latest FDT3 preferences in anticipation of some upcoming posts this week. Enjoy!

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Anyone who has worked with me in the past probably knows my distaste for Cairngorm and how I think it overcomplicates things. One really nice feature of it, however, is value objects (now known as data transfer objects, I believe) and collections. Value objects allow you to store data in a strongly typed class for later retrieval and a collection is just basically a fancier word for a strongly typed array that holds those value objects. Read more »

Well, today I am back at the house from FiTC (actually got home last night) and I just wanted to talk about some of the stuff I saw when I was there. As usual, the conference was awesome and inspirational so I just wanted to quickly go through a couple of the cool presentations. Read more »

Well, it’s time to start heading off to Flash in the Can. I’ll be back on Thursday morning so you won’t see any activity here for a few days as I’m not even bringing my computer (getting away from computers to see more… computers). Have fun everyone!

So as you’ve probably noticed by now, I’ve added Google AdSense to the blog. I figured that not everyone can make a monetary donation so this was a good alternative. It should only display 3 ads per page so it won’t get too cluttered and I opted for the smaller 468×60 ads. If you’d like to “help the cause”, and every bit helps, please just click an ad here and there and it’ll filter its way through to me. I’ve also added a link under each title of each post called “Show Some Love” which is a direct link to the PayPal donation page. Again, none of this is required but I really do appreciate it and it’s a good way to give back for all the hard work that goes into maintaining this blog.