Lighting Bitmaps in Papervision

Posted by Pek in Tuesday, December 8th 2009 under: Technology Tags: 3d, actionscript, code, flash, flex, papervision, pv3d

This is a technical article explaining how to code a light source into your Papervision 3D scene. Papervision is an open source 3d library for the Flash platform. Lighting in Papervision is a very useful tool. It helps add realism to your 3D project. Often times, you will have a scene or 3D objects that [...]

Using a WiiMote to Control an X-Wing

Posted by Pek in Sunday, November 1st 2009 under: Labs, Technology Tags: 3d, actionscript, flash, nui, papervision3d, ui, ux, wiimote

I spent this afternoon putting together a quick demo for my Rich Internet Interfaces Beyond Mice and Keyboards talk I’m giving at the DePaul University iTea Seminar tomorrow. The example is a simple one that illustrates using a WiiMote as an interface to controlling a 3D model. This can be easily used as a game [...]

Set Up Papervision 2.0 for Flex 3 in 3 Minutes Flat

Posted by Pek in Thursday, September 18th 2008 under: Technology Tags: 3d, actionscript, flex, papervision

Anybody who knows me knows that I’m all about quick and dirty, get it done, up and running and worry about it later. I don’t like to waste time and I’m sure you don’t either. If you want to set up Papervision Great White for Flex fast, you’ve come to the right place. You got [...]

Tutorio.us – New Flash Tutorial Website

Posted by Pek in Sunday, August 17th 2008 under: Technology Tags: actionscript, flash, flex, website

My friend Zack Jordan has recently just launched a new Flash tutorial website called Tutorio.us. It is currently an aggregate website which compiles a list of all the Flash tutorials around the web, although he may have his own content in the future. The value add to this site is Zack has gone to the [...]

Flash ActionScript stage.stageWidth vs stage.width

Posted by Pek in Wednesday, August 13th 2008 under: Technology Tags: actionscript, flash, flex

I was never clear on the differences between stageWidth and the width properties of the stage object. Here it is: stage.stageWidth is the width of the Flash Player stage.width is the width of content within the stage. So if you have nothing on the stage, stage.width would be 0.