The hard-working, unstoppable Meister Wanja came to me with the following problem involving getDefinitionByName and interfaces. Say you have the following class:

package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;

public class Blah extends Sprite
{
public function Blah()
{
var ref : String = “YourMama”;
var ClassRef : Class = getDefinitionByName( ref ) as Class;

var booh : IMama = new ClassRef();
}
}
}

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Yesterday I helped my friend Tudor with a problem. When we solved it he got excited and told me to blog about it. Whatever Tudor says has to be done so here we go :-).
He was using the Ribbon3D class which is based on Papervision3D. Instead of using a color material he wanted to use [...]

The March issue of Flash & Flex Developer’s magazine features an article written by me called “Blender to Flash Workflow”. This article explains how to:

create a simple 3D object in Blender
create a material in Blender
export the primitive and the material so that it can be used in Flash
set up a basic 3D scene using the [...]