Papervision3D FDT3 Template

Posted on
5/8/2008 in AS3 • My Classes • Papervision3D

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.

To install, just open up Eclipse and go to Window → Preferences → FDT → Editor → Templates. Click on Import and navigate to the XML file that is extracted. To use, press Ctrl+Space and type in pv3d and hit Enter. The template will show up like magic in your class!

For those that don't use Eclipse/FDT, you can see the class here (although you should really start using those tools):

PLAIN TEXT
Actionscript:
  1. /**
  2. * @author Matt Przybylski [http://www.reintroducing.com]
  3. * @version 1.0
  4. */
  5.  
  6. package com.reintroducing
  7. {
  8.     import flash.display.Sprite;
  9.     import flash.events.Event;
  10.    
  11.     import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D;
  12.     import org.papervision3d.render.BasicRenderEngine;
  13.     import org.papervision3d.scenes.Scene3D;
  14.     import org.papervision3d.view.Viewport3D;
  15.    
  16.     public class Papervision extends Sprite
  17.     {
  18. //- PRIVATE & PROTECTED VARIABLES -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  19.  
  20.         private var _viewport:Viewport3D;
  21.         private var _scene:Scene3D;
  22.         private var _camera:Camera3D;
  23.         private var _renderer:BasicRenderEngine;
  24.        
  25. //- PUBLIC & INTERNAL VARIABLES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  26.        
  27.        
  28.        
  29. //- CONSTRUCTOR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  30.    
  31.         public function Papervision():void
  32.         {
  33.             this.init();
  34.         }
  35.        
  36. //- PRIVATE & PROTECTED METHODS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  37.        
  38.         /**
  39.          *
  40.          */
  41.         private function init():void
  42.         {
  43.             this.initPapervision();
  44.             this.initObjects();
  45.             this.initListeners();
  46.         }
  47.        
  48.         /**
  49.          *
  50.          */
  51.         private function initPapervision():void
  52.         {
  53.             this._viewport = new Viewport3D();
  54.             this._scene = new Scene3D();
  55.             this._camera = new Camera3D();
  56.             this._renderer = new BasicRenderEngine();
  57.            
  58.             this.addChild(this._viewport);
  59.         }
  60.        
  61.         /**
  62.          *
  63.          */
  64.         private function initObjects():void
  65.         {
  66.             // init scene objects here
  67.         }
  68.        
  69.         /**
  70.          *
  71.          */
  72.         private function initListeners():void
  73.         {
  74.             this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, render);
  75.         }
  76.        
  77.         /**
  78.          *
  79.          */
  80.         private function render($evt:Event):void
  81.         {
  82.             // animation code goes here
  83.            
  84.             this._renderer.renderScene(this._scene, this._camera, this._viewport);
  85.         }
  86.        
  87. //- PUBLIC & INTERNAL METHODS -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  88.    
  89.        
  90.    
  91. //- EVENT HANDLERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  92.    
  93.        
  94.    
  95. //- GETTERS & SETTERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  96.    
  97.        
  98.    
  99. //- HELPERS -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  100.    
  101.         override public function toString():String
  102.         {
  103.             return "com.reintroducing.Papervision";
  104.         }
  105.    
  106. //- END CLASS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  107.     }
  108. }

Obviously you'll need to edit the package declaration manually (another advantage of using Eclipse/FDT templates) so that you don't get any errors.

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4 Comments
Comment by Zack Jordan on May 8, 2008 @ 9:30 am

I'm starting to think you're on the Powerflasher payroll. Just kidding, of course. Which edition of FDT do you use?

Comment by Matt Przybylski on May 8, 2008 @ 9:33 am

haha, they probably should be paying me at this point :P
I'm using FDT3 Pro.

Comment by John Lindquist on May 11, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

Just a heads up: pv3d includes a template class, "org.papervision3d.view.BasicView", which we use a lot for training, workshops, etc. Just subclass that puppy and you'll have all of the main functionality ready to roll.

Comment by Matt Przybylski on May 12, 2008 @ 8:25 am

Hey John,
Absolutely, I realized that as well after the fact, but I do like having a template setup in FDT that does this as well. I use templates for a lot of things so this is good to have. Thanks, though.

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