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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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My stuff any use to you? Pay it forward for cancer research.

Have you ever found any use for any of my stuff? That nifty particle effect on your game? That 3D Papervision website? Or perhaps you’ve just found my wry sense of humour somewhat amusing? Now’s your chance to thank me! But I don’t want anything from you. No, I’m asking you to pay it forward! […]

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The FOTB08 carnival leaves town

And it is with a mixture of sadness, exhaustion, and joy to have been host to such a great many Flash friends from all over the world. The conference was pretty damn amazing, and it was incredible to catch up with my great friends Mario, Ralph, Keith, Rob, Jeremy, Carlos, Chris and the many, MANY […]

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Papervision3D training in Amsterdam

I’ll be putting together some more Papervision workshops in the UK at some point in the next six months, but if you can’t wait for that, Ralph’s just announced his latest workshop in Amsterdam for the 21st and 22nd October. His workshops are really good fun, it’s what helped me get into Papervision at the […]

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Big in Japan

I’m noticing a lot of links coming from Japan lately, they seem to be particularly taken with my Papervision reflections… But this one particularly caught my eye – this nice chap (or chapess) has made a pretty 3D butterfly, along with its reflection… nice! And even nicer, they’ve included source. Have you made something nice […]

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Changing a cube’s material dynamically in Papervision3D

It’s long been a bug bear that you can’t dynamically change a cube’s materials, so I’ve just committed a simple update that has simply moved Tim Knip’s clever material swapping methods from the DAE object into the DisplayObject3D. So now we can call replaceMaterialsByName on any DisplayObject3D! So you can use it by calling : […]

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Papervision training – win $125 off!

I’m just putting the final touches on my training workshop in Cologne next week and as there are a few spaces left I thought it may be fun to have a little competition to win $125 off a ticket! So I worked it out with the Rich Media Institute and can now offer the discount […]

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Two FlashForward Award nominations

I’m absolutely delighted to announce that for the second year running we have (not one but) two projects as FlashForward Award finalists this year! Our first finalist is our work with MLB.com (that’s Major League Baseball for those born under a rock or outside the USA 🙂 ). We developed a Papervision3D component for their […]

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Papervision3D Training in Cologne – 10% off!

I’m now taking on the 2 day Papervision course in Cologne on July 30th and 31st. (Ralph’s had to pull out due to a family illness). And I can get you 10% off! And all you have to do is be able to spell my surname! The promo code is Lee-Delisle. For more information and […]

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Real shadows in Papervision3D

Despite the fact that he’s just had a baby, PV core team member Andy Zupko has been as prolific as ever! First of all he Integrated the Effects branch into Great White, then swiftly followed up with a fog filter, LOD system, and a modifier set. Without pausing for breath, he reworked his algorithm for […]