AS3 : Visualis3d
Ignore the fancy name, although nothing to be shout and proud of, this is my latest experiment with As3 and Papervision 2.0 which released early end of the year. Of course what shocked me is the easy-ness of implementing all these despite the fact that it’s like a horror movie everytime to think about 3D in flash. Not anymore, as emphasized on my previous post, this time around, with the present of BasicView, it’s almost like adding another Sprite or MovieClip into your project. Fast and easy.

Will provide the source code when I cleaned it up. Please wait while the audio loads. Forgot to put in preloader, my bad. And to change the look of the visualiser, cick on it

UPDATE 1/1/2009 : Below is the source code as promised :

First, get the necessary classes :

• Papervision3D’s Class : http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/
• TweenMax : http://blog.greensock.com/tweenmaxas3/
• Visualis3d’s Source Code : http://www.manmeng.net/fun/visualizer/visualis3d.zip

And if it doesn’t work when you trying to export, check :

1. Have you got the necessary classes?
2. If yes, did you mix the old version of papervision (1.5 / 1.7 / GreatWhite) with the latest one? Use only the latest one and remove the legacy versions.
3. I did not include the music file, which you can use your own, and rename it to music.mp3.

Just wanted to share with people which is struggling to load models into Papervision and play with it. The latest version from the trunk proved to be really reliable and efficient, in terms for newbies like me. The whole learning process is suprisingly short. Below I’ve also compiled a list of resources I’ve found over the few days in making this possible. Yet to try with DAE models. I take no credit on this. I would feel glad if anyone benefit from this post. Enjoy!

Example : Banana In Pyjamas

Source Code : Banana Source Code (TXT) (Copy paste into your timeline)

Resources :

• Quake 2 Models
• Loading in MD2 Format to Papervision3D
• New updated tutorials from PV3D.org

Other type of “3D Model Loader”

• Cast 3D
• DAEAnim

Footnote :
I think partially this is due to the fact that the whole trunk is restructured in a way that it’s so easy with the new BasicView class.

Really cool artbook for sale. Should check it out at : http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=144943

Kuala Lumpur Design Week
It’s been like since you-know-when that a design conference is held in this region. Or probably…never. Oh yes there is. But it’s refreshing to see this to be a good start at the year by promoting art & design in the country through this kind of event which I felt strongly it should be annually held across the country and funded by a lot of organisation in this to accellerate the growth of this country in terms of quality mindset and actions. We’ve been always bitching on how unfortunate to always have conference outside of the country that costs a bomb for us to travel and then to stay there. And now it’s like a dream come through, just tad bit late, though not by a lot, we’re still in the 2009. I’m truly happy to see this happening and wondering what is to come!

Do drop by Malaysia and say hi, I’ll be more than happy to bring you guys around if you are from abroad during these days.

It’s towards the end of the year, and I’m glad it ends with this interesting project that started of as an experimental ground for the illustrator and for me as well, to play with scripts and performance control in a Flash site using Actionscript 3.0. The site is packed with lots of juice and preferences or settings are controlled through external XML(s).

official site for a singaporean acapella band

You can go to the site now at : http://www.budakpantai.com

While I only take care of the implementation and backend for the site, I’m delighted on how it turned out in the end, performance and aesthetically speaking. What do you think?

Things that I can think of in implementing the comment system :

• Take existing XML guestbook script
• Modify it and revise it to use with Flash
• Flash takes in the chunk of the XML structure from the existing file, holds it to the memory, and if user inputs new data, combine old with new data
• and sends the whole chunk of data as raw POST data
• on the server side, a php file will do the dirty job in saving the POST data as .xml file.