Flash

Mar 15, 2010

Blender to ActionScript Exporter on Google Code

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Blender, Flash 13 comments

There have been requests to put the Blender to ActionScript exporter on Google Code. I’ve created this page: http://code.google.com/p/blender-as-exporter/ If you want to make any contributions to make the plugin better then give me a shout!


Jan 28, 2010

Blender to ActionScript Exporter Updated: Away3D Lite 1.0.2

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Blender, Flash 1 comment

Another update to the Blender to ActionScript exporter. Away3D Lite 1.02. has been added to the list. Download it from the usual place here.


Oct 15, 2009

Book Review: Papervision3D Essentials

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Flash 1 comment

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 [...]


Sep 23, 2009

Blender exporter updated: Away3D Lite 1.0

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Blender, Flash 1 comment

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 [...]


Aug 20, 2009

3D, ribbons, vertices, uv coordinates

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Flash 2 comments

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 [...]


Aug 6, 2009

“Blender to Flash workflow” article now available for free

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Blender, Flash 3 comments

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 [...]


May 27, 2009

“Blender to Flash Workflow” article in Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Blender, Flash 7 comments

The latest 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 [...]


Apr 6, 2009

Blender to ActionScript exporter updated: Quads and Modifiers

Posted by in 3D, Blender, Flash 1 comment

The exporter script for Sandy 3.1 now supports quads. This means you don’t have to press ctrl+T before you export an object from Blender. Big thank you to Makc for writing this bit of code. I’ve also introduced support for modifiers. The modifiers are applied to a temporary Mesh and then exported to ActionScript. It [...]


Apr 2, 2009

Using an Alchemy generated texture on a 3D object

Posted by in 3D, ActionScript, Flash 6 comments

Here’s how a texture that is generated by Alchemy can be used by a 3D engine like Sandy. Watch the example here. The C code: #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> #include “AS3.h” int* palette; int* plasma; int* newPlasma; int width; int height; AS3_Val generatePlasma(void* self, AS3_Val args) { int x, y, r, g, b, [...]


Mar 26, 2009

Installing Adobe Alchemy: “bash: alc-on: command not found” Error

Posted by in Flash, Uncategorized 5 comments

I’m currently trying to get started with Adobe Alchemy. I’ve downloaded the SDK and Cygwin. I’ve followed all the steps from the getting started documentation: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy:Documentation:Getting_Started. When trying to execute this command: alc-on; which gcc I get this error bash: alc-on: command not found The problem here is that the .bashrc file is not executed [...]