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great pv3d example

Friday, September 21, 2007   

I am a complete Papervision3D n00b right now, and I would love to have this kind of control over the camera and planes. Digitaria Interactive (People).


I have been trying to basically make this same kind of thing for the last two days and have been unsuccessful so far. I know I know almost none of the APIs at the moment which makes things hard, and I see examples that are pretty specific (I am looking for an overall general series of tutorials about this stuff but haven't found much yet). So its trial and error a bit for any of the more complex interactions at the moment.

Does anyone have any prototypes or examples of anything approaching this kind of interaction? Scattered planes, click to zoom up to (and expand space around)? The precise control is really quite nice. I know I can probably figure things out over time (and checking various examples and splicing ideas together, and studying the online docs in the hopes of discovering all the properties, etc.) -- but it would be cool to see a working example with code so I could relate things a little quicker (and know best practices for certain approaches).

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 Zeh said...

September 21, 2007 3:31 PM

“I think it's more about the fact that you have to treat the 3d world as if you would treat a 2d scene. What would you do if you needed something similar in 2d? Probably employ some tweening, some attractors, stuff like that, right? Well, the same works in PV3D simply because the object position/rotation/scaling properties are acessible, so depending on what you want, you don't need complex camera paths, but just tweening its properties by actionscript, moving it to a given position.

On that account, tweening engines such as Tweener, TweenLite and many others (including Adobe's own classes?) will work for you, just the same as they worked in 2d. There are many examples out there. Just on top of my mind now:

http://wiki.papervision3d.org/index.php?title=Examples#Animation
http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=314”