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 [...]

A while ago I made a very simple Collada parser that was written in JavaScript and drew on a HTML 5 <canvas>.
Silverlight 1.0 also makes use of JavaScript so converting it seemed like a good excercise. You can see it here. Fortunately I didn’t have to change much. Only the way in which the lines [...]

A few weeks ago there was a “Fronteers” (the Dutch guild of front-end developers) meeting at our office in Utrecht. I was asked to give a talk about something interesting related to front-end web development. Quite a lot has been said and written about standards, accessibility, etc. so I had to come up with something [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]