I’ve been trying to set up the AuthenticeWebApp demo application that comes with the Fluorine .NET Flash Remoting Gateway. I used Flex 2 and .Net 2.0 for this. When I first ran the project with this remoteobject tag: <mx:RemoteObject id=”loginRO” destination=”login” source=”AuthenticateWebApp.MyLoginService”> <mx:method name=”Login” result=”loginResult(event)” fault=”loginFault(event)” /> </mx:RemoteObject> I got this error: TypeError: Error #1034: [...]

Recently a new functionality has been introduced in Sandy 3.0. It is a method in the Geometry3D class called generateVertexNormals(). As the name already implies, this method generates the normal vector for every vertex in a shape. I’ve played with vertex normals before but this time I wanted to align other objects with the normals [...]

My Papervision3D tutorials were too Flex-specific so I made some changes to them. I got lots of comments from Flash developers who were having trouble with the code, so time was nigh for some updates! I also changed the repository URL to point to the new location on Google Code. Enjoy! Papervision3D tutorial from the [...]

There was a rumor that the new Sandy AS3 version and Tweener could not be combined. That would’ve been a real shame … if it was true Fortunately, it isn’t. Since I just made a minor change to Sandy’s Collada parser (now it also reads vertex normals) I decided to combine these things into a [...]

This excellent tool just emerged. With this piece of software you’re able to convert your 3DS Max model to an AS3 class & plug it into Sandy 3.0, Papervision 1.5 and Away3D. Go check it out!

Good things are happening at Sandy 3D. I’ve given Thomas (the brains behind Sandy) a helping hand with the ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 conversion. He’s done an incredible amount of work on this library, which he started working on in 2005. So I recommend keeping an eye on the Sandy site for a new [...]

I’ve been digging into ActionScript optimization and found some interesting results. Mind though that there’s nothing really new here, many of these tricks can be found in articles that I reference at the bottom of this posting. Array indexing Let’s start with a simple loop through the items of an array: private function method1() : [...]

[Update 15/10/2009] The most comprehensive work about Papervision3D is this book. This beginner’s tutorial is a follow up on part 1 where we set up a basic project and imported a Collada file to the scene. This tutorial will focus on adding multiple Papervision3D objects and making them move. There’s also a little bit on [...]

Papervision3D has had a little revision which affected my tutorial. Some people had problems loading the .dae file because they used a different directory structure. I thought it would be a good idea if Papervision3D supported embedded Collada files. Turned out I wasn’t the only one, so this feature is now supported in Papervision3D’s latest [...]

[Update 15/10/2009] The most comprehensive work about Papervision3D is this book. There are some Papervision3D tutorials out in the wild, but the ones that I’ve seen don’t start from scratch. That’s why I decided to put together this step-by-step tutorial to show you how to create a simple 3D object with Papervision3D and 3ds Max. [...]