Spectra is a well designed visual display of customized newsfeeds in a 3d space and takes great advantage of Papervision3d. I’m especially impressed by how well the interface is designed for setting up your page and navigating the rotating stream of news items.
John Lindquist, a fellow Utah Flasher has started a blog devoted to our favorite rockin’ Flash 3D engine, Papervision3d. He has started with the very basics in setting up a project with Flash Develop and downloading the PV3D Classes. With plans to get quite deep into all the features available in the powerful engine like, Managing Viewports and Scenes, Dimensions and Scaling, Auto-Culling and Auto-Clipping, Interactivity, Managing Cameras, Importing 3D Objects from Outside Programs, Materials, Lighting, Effects and much more.
The site is set up to allow simply copying the code for pasting into your own demo and video screen capture demonstrations that allow you to follow along with exactly every step of the process. It’s my favorite way to learn.
I personally have been playing around with Papervision the entire year it’s been in beta and it wasn’t until I ran through these demos that I really felt like I had a grasp on it.
Check it out at: pv3d.org
John has recently taken over as President of UDFUG, a local Flash user group. I attended a recent event where he demo’ed the Papervision3d and Tweener API’s using Flash Develop. Very informative. And it sounds like he’s lining up very many excellent events for 2008.
