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Papervision training course
We’ve just announced my 2-day Papervision training course for early in March, and for this week only you can get it for the early bird price of £275. Two full days of training will give you everything you need to know from setting things up, all the way through to importing models, interactivity, and even […]
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Papervision wins .net innovation award
We’re all really thrilled that Papervision has been awarded the .net magazine’s innovation award, beating SilverLight, the BBC iPlayer and Google Android! Full story here on the Papervision blog. (Sadly no longer available)
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Smooth circles in Papervision
Here’s a handy little class that will make a smooth 3D circle out of curved lines in Papervision3D. Add an nice little sine wave movement curve and you have this! Click on the image to see it in action. Here’s the source :
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Papervision3D snow
I don’t know about you guys, but at the moment I’m getting several calls a day asking for Flash Christmas cards. And what do you need in a Flash Christmas card? Christmas snow! Remember last year I completed the 3D-Flash-snow-in-15-minutes challenge at FlashBrighton’s Big Day Out? Well this year I thought I’d do the same […]
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Memory leaks in Papervision3D patched up!
We all know how stable and optimised Papervision3D is. But a small number of developers who need to constantly create and discard 3D objects will have encountered a particularly tricky little memory leak. There have been several workarounds and custom destroy functions, which have helped to patch up the leak, but I can now announce […]
Any of you using Andy’s ViewportLayers (see his post here) to selectively render separate layers will now find a fairly significant improvement in performance. And it’s because we’ve managed to shrink Flash’s dirty rectangle! The dirty rectangle is the area of the screen that is being redrawn by the Flash Player every frame, and you […]
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Happy Birthday Keith Peters!
John, Andy and I thought we’d chuck a little something together for Keith now that he’s 44, (or 14 x Pi if you’re talking his language). Happy Birthday!
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All set for FOTB Papervision3D session
All set for my Flash on the Beach session! Learn how to get started in Papervision3D! Set up a Papervision project in only 5 minutes! Add spheres, cubes, and other shapes! Load in models from Maya and 3D Studio! Interactivity! Reflections! OH MY GOD HOW DO I FIT IT ALL INTO A SINGLE HOUR! Ahem. […]
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Unexpected Flex build error
I just had a weird one I thought I’d share on here in case anyone else has it. Or in case I get it again for that matter. I kept getting the same error from Flex Builder : “An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information.” After much searching and sulking I found […]