Papervision 3D Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
If you haven’t heard, Papervision is a 3D class library for Flash. For non-maths heads like me, it’s fairly complex to get your head around. To make it even worse, the documentation is sparse, but there are some good tutorials out there. Check out gotoandlearn.
I’ve followed a guide created by Mark Walters to create my own Earth and Moon scene using Papervision for AS3. It’s basic I guess, but I’m only learning.
I’ve found that sometimes in Firefox at home, I needed to refresh the page to make the Earth appear. Not sure why. Also, for all the astronomers, the dimensions and distances are probably way off. I was lucky to get it to work, so back off! 