Introduction to Papervision

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PapervisionA cool article about the Papervision component, which allows Flash CS3 to work with 3D objects, was released by Computer Arts magazine. It works like a real-time 3D engine component. And they mention Blender at the article, as one of the tools that can produce 3D content to use in Flash.

If you are interested in knowing how the Papervision component works. Besides the article, there is a tutorial available to download (PDF), teaching how to import and manipulate 3D content into Flash CS3. Visit this link, to read the article, and download the tutorial.

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    • Andreh

      Who is the one?
      I’ll really give a try =]

    • http://e2-productions.com Dion Moult

      Sounds quite interesting, but I’ll master Blender first.

      Looks as though it needs more development IMHO.

    • Joat

      Yes. This is sweet.

    • Tynach

      Havn’t looked at it yet, but I’m guessing it uses SFlender.

    • http://www.pablosbrain.com Paul Lunneberg

      Papervision3D (blog.papervision3d.org) is a great open source library. It natively loads collada files that can be generated from blender. It is not like SFblender in that it uses the real 3D data and the objects can be manipulated through Actionscript. Its a great project! I’ve used it along with blender at work to develop some training applications. This is an example of a test I did with it. (www.pablosbrain.com/flash/flash3d/bh/) And version 2 of their library is coming out soon as well with a lot more functionality and speed improvements!

    • http://www.tice.us/flash Will

      Finally, the unification of my two favorite programs!
      I can’t wait to see what I can do with this!

    • WT

      I actually wrote about Papervision + Blender + Flash 3D etc… back in March in the Summer of Code post (see the following links):

      http://www.blendernation.com/2007/03/15/google-summer-of-code-2007/#comment-76401
      http://www.blendernation.com/2007/03/15/google-summer-of-code-2007/#comment-76409

      Unfortunatly there was no response to my thoughts or the info I provided :-( Not even a peep! But if you read my post you will find more links and info concerning Blender and Flash and Flash and 3D. I still wish my thoughts would be given consideration as I feel they are strong and valid and that Blender would benefit largely. I think its a worth while consideration at this point.

      Even Adobe mentions and uses Blender on there site in this tutorial for Flash and Papervision:
      http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_video_3d.html

      Oh well 8 months later here we are ;-) Thanks for the article heads up ;-)

    • http://www.pyrosever.com pyrosever

      this could prove very useful, I’ve been looking for better ways to integrate blender with flash for some time. Thanks for the info

    • http://www.albartus.com LOGAN

      Shame the examples need a flash compiler :/
      Why didn’t they included a swf where you can load in a 3D model…

    • speludner

      @WT: I like your passion about Blender -> Flash and I
      like your suggestions. I too would like to see more/better Flash
      support. I don’t think Blendernation is really the right forum tho -
      have you tried BlenderArtists?

    • WT

      @ speludner

      Where would I post at BlenderArtists to achieve perhaps a better response?? I would think someone would have seen either of these posts I made here here. I would be interested in your thoughts however.