How to create realistic Earth globe in Flash (AS3, Papervision3D)

posted in ActionScript on 2010-09-16   stage globe var import org papervision3d rotationx rotationy moviematerial sphere stage stageheight stage stagewidth

Papervision3D is a perfect tool for the purpose. As you will see such a task needs only few lines of code. To make the example a little bit more interesting we will add additional code to control the rotation of the globe by the mouse.

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Pixel perfect in Papervision3d

posted in ActionScript on 2010-09-12   camera papervision3d

Did you ever wonder how to create a pixel perfect animation in Papervision3d? I designed my portfolio site in Photoshop, but when I tried to integrate the 3D effects I spent a lot of time in changing the zoom and focus length to match the exact dimensions. And even then they were not perfect.

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Papervision3d: Finding 2D coordinates of a 3D object

posted in ActionScript on 2010-07-25   private var 3d number import org papervision3d addsphereandtooltip item mousey mousex basicview displayobject3d event

Papervision3d is probably the most popular 3D flash engine. There are dozen of applications/sites that use it. These days I also decided to create a 3D effect in my portfolio site. Everything works fine, but I needed a tooltip for each of the 3D objects on my scene. To be able to animate everything I needed 2D coordinates of all my 3D elements.

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