Many people who downloaded and installed the plugin asked me if I could add the option to add frameworks and repositories.
I just uploaded a new version that enables you to do so. I added a dialog in the Eclipse Preferences window where you can select which frameworks you want to see in the context menu. [...]

Packt Publishing sent me book for review. So here we go …
Authors: Paul Tondeur (www.paultondeur.com) and Jeff Winder (www.jeffwinder.nl)
Publisher: Packt publishing (www.packtpub.com)
Pages: 407
Finally there is a book about the most popular 3D engine for Flash, Papervision3D. With a lot of information scattered about on the internet there is a huge need for something coherent. This [...]

Do you use ActionScript frameworks a lot? Are you tired of always downloading each framework from different websites when setting up a new project in Eclipse, Flex Builder or FDT? Well, be tired no more
I was getting sick of this myself so I wrote a plug-in that makes this a lot easier. Just [...]

There are a lot of people who use Blender and the Blender to ActionScript exporter. However, there are a lot of people who use Maya, SketchUp, DAZ Studio or any other 3D program who aren’t able to export to ActionScript classes. Some people came to me with the question “why don’t you create a COLLADA [...]

Away3D Lite 1.0 has been released a few weeks ago. According to the Away3D team:
“Away3D Lite is the fastest and smallest fully featured 3d engine in Flash to date“
Sounded like a good reason to update the Blender to ActionScript exporter! The updated script can be found on the usual page here.
Example files can be found [...]

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();
}
}
}

Build it, run it and [...]

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 [...]

I’m very happy to announce that the Blender to ActionScript exporter adds another 3D engine to its list: Alternativa3D! Thanks to Makc for writing the code for this.

You can download the new version here.

I’ve been trying to get my head around Objective-C the last two weeks. It’s a language you have to get used to. But, as they say, it grows on you. I’ve also explored OpenGL for the iPhone which is quite awesome. It’s delightful to work on something non-browser based once in a while!

While looking for [...]