Archive for the ‘ Tutorials ’ Category
How to bend stuff and make things a bit more alive in papervision3D plus a lot of interesting stuff available for all Flash 3D enthusiasts: www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/11/bending-modifier-papervision3d/ [ READ MORE ]
Adding “worldly” feeling to a 3D scene is almost essential, especially in games. It is just a box or a sphere that surrounds camera/player. Using blurred texture will give nice effect of distant horizon or view. Check out mcasperson’s simple tutorial how to make a Skybox. Example of a sites using skybox-method: www.papervision3d.org ww.ecodazoo.com [ READ MORE ]
Here’s couple of video-tutorials on working with Maya and Papervision3D. Texture Baking and installing & enabling ColladaMaya plugin in Maya. Courtesy of pv3d.org. Collada Maya plugin is downloadable at sourceforge. [ READ MORE ]
Simple example how to make 3D text in pv3d. Import classes: import org.papervision3d.materials.special.Letter3DMaterial; import org.papervision3d.typography.Font3D; import org.papervision3d.typography.Text3D; import org.papervision3d.typography.fonts.HelveticaBold; Actually just making one word appear in a scene is hard work in pv3d. Well not that hard, but some lines of code have to be written. Like adding & positioning two words in my example: //texts txtmaterial = new Letter3DMaterial(0xFF0000,0.4);//0.4 opacity txtmaterial.lineThickness = 1; txtmaterial.lineAlpha = [ READ MORE ]
