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Big big Papervision3D project for small people

You may have noticed that I’ve been a little quieter than usual over the past few months. And for that, I’m sorry. But there’s a very good reason for that! Me and the my very talented colleagues at Plug-in Media have been hugely busy working on the biggest and most ambitious Papervision3D project we’ve ever […]

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Super fast triangle/rectangle intersection test

I’m always on the lookout for ways to speed up our project work and also some of the inner workings of Papervision3D, and I must admit, sometimes it reaches fairly obsessive levels, bordering on unhealthy. In fact sometimes the minor optimisations are so insignificant, it can just be an exercise in problem solving. Which let’s […]

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Lunar Lander 3D in 5K

Remember Lunar Lander? One of the very first arcade games ever? Well, actually, if I’m honest I don’t really remember it when it came out in 1979 (I was only 7 at the time), but I do think it’s a very, very cool game. For starters, the display didn’t use scan lines like a normal […]

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Papervision3D session with Carlos in London

I’ve been back from honeymoon for a couple of weeks, and I’m finally getting back into the swing of work! There have been a few developments, more of that soon, but first of all I just wanted to let you all know that myself and Carlos will be presenting at London’s LFPUG on 29th April. […]

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How to change @author in your ASDocs

For OSX at least… Step 1 Navigate to /Applications/Flex Builder 3/ Step2 Right click on the app, Flex Builder and select explore package contents. A new finder window should pop up with a folder called “Contents” Step 3 Open the file Contents/MacOS/FlexBuilder.ini with a text editor of your choice. Step 4 Add the following line […]

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How to set up ASDoc in Flex Builder

I’ve basically spent about a day working out how to use ASDoc, and all I can say is, what a nightmare! If I wanted this kind of unintuitive, problem-ridden, poorly-documented ridiculousness I’d be a Linux user! (no offense meant, but you Linux guys seem to thrive on this sort of thing!) Excluding external libraries Our […]

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Papervision Simplified, at FITC Amsterdam

I landed in Amsterdam this morning at 8.15am feeling a little achey and strange after running the Brighton half marathon yesterday! I’m just going over my presentation in my room, and I’ve just realised I haven’t actually uploaded the working files you’ll need to work along with me! But don’t worry you can download them […]

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Papervision3D training – early bird price ends on Monday!

So get in quick!

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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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FOTB is crossing the Atlantic!

Finally you don’t have to make the trek across the pond to experience that rather wonderful British delight, Flash on the Beach. And this time you don’t have to put up with the Brighton weather, unforgiving exchange rates, or jet lag. The american reversioning of this conference is doing it in style. In Miami beach! […]