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 [...]

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 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 3D scene using the [...]

A new version of the Sandy 3D engine has just been released. Due to time constraints, my contribution has been zero this time.
The new version is more stable and faster than the previous ones. If you’re upgrading from a previous version you should be aware that some things in the API have been changed. Be [...]

In a previous post I talked about an easy deep cloning method I found and which I tweaked a little.
While I was crammed in the tube yesterday (sometimes the best ideas are born in the underground) I came up with an idea to simplify and generalise this even further. The problem with the current method [...]

I highly recommend this debugger. It is an AIR application that has many useful features and will make your life much easier. Some of those features are:

detailed traces (trace strings and objects, which you can expand)
edit properties at runtime
method testing
a tree structure with which you can walk through the application

On top of that, it is [...]

Andrea Boschini from Panurge Web Design was kind enough to change the exporter script so that it supports Away3D 2.2.0. Download it here.
Thanks Andrea!

Mike Lively, who’s writing a book about Papervision3D, has released a new Papervision3D XML exporter for Blender. He has used my Blender to ActionScript exporter script as a base for his script.
Another useful exporter for Blender! Go checkit out:
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New Blender XML Exporter/PV3D XML Primitive

I encountered this problem when implementing a workaround for the multiline unicode text wrapping bug. I use newline characters (”\n”) to break up the text manually. When I load the XML file and parse it in my Flex app, newline characters are displayed in the text field. Tracing out the string displays “\n” and not [...]

I came across this bug while working on a localised Flex application for one of our clients. In the Thai version of the site the text was wrapping incorrectly. It didn’t cut off sentences where there were whitespaces. Instead it cut off in the middle of words. Take a look at this example:

You can see [...]