Flex Your AS: Flex 3, Adobe Air, Flash CS3, and Actionscript 3.0 Video Tutorials

How to position a plane:

1. Optional: Create more planes
2. Position the planes by setting the x, y, or z property of the plane
3. Optional: Spin the plane

[flv:http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/05_Positioning_Planes/05_Positioning_Planes.flv 632 532]

How to spin a camera:

1. Change the Camera3D to a FreeCamera3D
2. Use the yaw(), pitch(), or roll() camera methods in your ENTER_FRAME handler
3. Render the scene

[flv:http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/04_Spinning_The_Camera/04_Spinning_The_Camera.flv 632 532]

How to rotate a plane in Papervision3D using the yaw() method

What to watch for:

1. Make the plane global
2. Add a listener for ‘Event.ENTER_FRAME’ (previously known as onEnterFrame) with a callback to loop3D
3. Use the yaw() method of the plane to rotate 5 degrees each time ‘loop3D()’ is called
4. Render the camera
5. optional: Make the color material ‘double sided’ if you want to see both sides of the plane when it rotates

[flv:http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/03_Rotating_A_Plane/03_Rotating_A_Plane.flv 612 508]

How to add a plane with a color material to a Papervision3D scene:

What to watch for:

1. Create a color material
2. Create a plane (and apply the color material)
3. Add the plane to the scene

[flv:http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/02_Adding_A_Plane/02_Adding_A_Plane.flv 604 508]

This video tut is the first in a series of Papervision3D tutorials.

In this tutorial we will create an empty Papervision3D scene:

What to watch for

1. Create a container, a scene, and a camera
2. Center the container on the stage
3. Render the camera

(I’m using FlashDevelop so all classes will be automatically imported. As you can see towards the end, I accidentally import a class which I have to delete.)
[flv:http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/01_Setting_Up_The_Scene/01_Setting_Up_The_Scene.flv 604 508]