Archive for the ‘Papervision 2.0’ Category

Fun with SWFAddress, Tweener, and animating the URL

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I've been playing around with doing some animations in the URL and also the title bar. The very awesome SWFAddress makes it quite easy to play around with. I started out with some very simple blinking, here and after that, moved on to some simple animation loops,  here and since that wasn't enough, ...

Presentation for MNSWF Code Camp: Intro to Papervision3d

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I'm pleased to announce a small collection of Papervision3D 2.0 demos and sources. You may access these by using subversion to check out the following repository. svn checkout http://modern-carpentry.com/svn/pv3d Please note that you must also be using the effects branch of Papervision3D 2.0, and to compile these files you must change the build ...

working with puny entertainment

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I've accepted a full time job at PUNY Entertainment in north-east minneapolis. My tasks include, but are not limited to actionscript 3 design and devopment, petting Harvey the office dog, and growing up. Here's where we work, have a look around- After working part time at PUNY for a couple of ...

WOW 3D Physics engine released!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Jerome Birembaut released his long awaited 3d physics engine, properly named "WOW". Wow uses the Sandy 3d library to do the mathematical calculations for the objects, and I must say it runs pretty smoothly. Team Wow up with the flash 3d library of your choice(mine is PV3D, of course) ...

Open and Close a box in Papervision3D 2.0

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Here is a quick example of contructing a cube using Planes instead of the Cube primitive in Papervision3D. Click the picture to view the opening and shutting cube. -Once the cube is open, click the bottom of the inside in order to close it again. This technique makes it possible to ...

season’s greetings from modern carpentry

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Click on a picture and enjoy! check out the snow

Internal: Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I have recently been working on creating flash websites that are running off of a Drupal CMS. This approach to bringing content into flash is pretty slick for a couple of reasons: it provides the maintainer of a website a user friendly way to put content into their website with ...

color, light, shape, and papervision

Sunday, December 16th, 2007



Loading Collada files (.dae) into Papervision3d 2.0 GreatWhite

Friday, December 7th, 2007

For anyone interested in learning how to load .dae (collada) files into Papervision3D 2.0, this is your lucky day! A collada file is an open source version of your regular 3d file, whether it be created in 3dStudio Max, Maya, Blender, SketchUp, etc. It is essentially an XML file that ...

Trapped inside a GreatWhite streaming video cube

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I've been playing around with a lot of video stuff way back since Phunky (man, those were the days, weren't they?) Anyways, thought I'd post a cool example of how to do streaming video, on six sides of a cube, in Great White. If you've never set up an .flv ...