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The Archives
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02.12.09Free Your Avatar: X-Box Live Lets LooseX-Box Live is allowing you to free your avatar in time for Valentines Day. The simple application lets you port your avatar off the X-Box platform and send photos of it to friends. "The updated ‘Free Your Avatar’ tool will provide brand new backgrounds and props for every occasion including birthday backgrounds, party hats and balloons. Additionally, people will be able to upload their very own backgrounds: Place your avatar in front of famous landmarks you’ve always wanted to visit, or insert your avatars into your favorite movie scene. " I've often wondered why you can't do the same in Second Life. ...
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11.27.08Mixed Reality: Characters in the Palm of Your HandsJust in time for Christmas, or maybe not...maybe it's the new version of those electronic picture frame things that you keep on your desk, a new way to while the time at the office maybe instead of solitaire. Vint recently posted about a 3D virtual girlfriend, and I kind of lost track of it, Vint being a blogging superstar and all, it's just hard to keep up. In any case, if tickling a little animated 3D character isn't your thing, maybe a little cute squishy animal is more up your alley: Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from dpinteractive on Vimeo. The above character ...
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10.09.08Papervision “White Void” Source CodeWhite Void was one of the first really compelling uses of Papervision, an open source development platform that allows the publishing of 3D content in Flash. Now, Reaction Plus has released a 'rework' of the White Void premise, including source code. For a round-up of Papervision resources click here.
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09.24.08Going Mainstream with 3D Content? Enter Adobe’s Creative Suite 4Adobe's announcement of Creative Suite 4 includes significant additions to the ability to work with 3D content, extending the ability of Flash, Photoshop and other programs in the 'family' to deliver rich 3D experiences and design across platforms. According to the Adobe press release: "Adobe Creative Suite 4 brings 3D center-stage providing the ability to paint, composite, and animate 3D models using familiar tools. Flash CS4 Professional now offers the ability to apply tweens to objects instead of keyframes, providing greater control over animation attributes. Also in Flash, the new Bones tool helps create more realistic animations between linked objects. With a ...
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06.01.08Mini Link: Papervision Tutorials & HelpRan across this incredible resource for Papervision tutorials by Mr. Doobs. Topics covered include: 1. Preparing your tools 2. Getting the source 3. Creating a Papervision Base Template 4. Basic Template Usage 5. Basic Texturing 6. Loading Complex Models 7. Basic Mouse Interaction 8. Keyboard Interaction (To move the camera) 9. Basic Interactivity 10. Advanced Interactivity 11. Advanced Interactivity 2 12. Animation using Tweener Over on Nabble, the discussion forum is a good place to post specific Papervision questions - and you'll generally get a response.
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05.28.08Papervision Tag Galaxy – Mapping Meaning in 3DForgotten in the debate about avatars and identity is the idea of 3D space as an intuitive way to conceptualize information. Papervision is increasingly being used to organize concepts, as seen in the now famous White Void application - sure, it's just a spinny looking file folder system, but there's something that just feels right about it - concepts nested in concepts, 3D space, hierarchy of data. Others are pushing the limits as well. Tag Galaxy takes tags from Flickr and maps them as a galaxy of terms. Each planet is a tag - and if you click each planet it ...
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05.28.08Cathay Pacific: Avatars, 3D Tour, PapervisionCathay Pacific is showing off it's new airplane cabins on a Web site that combines selecting a stand-in for yourself - male or female, the ability to tour the cabin in 3D, and artful use of Papervision in the interface. The site is remarkably fast to load, immerses you in the environment of the aircraft, and gets down to the level of allowing you to test how the seats maneuver and lights adjust. A flight simulator and an in-board movie allows you to watch trailers for what will be shown on board. Of course - also has you dreaming of first class travel, ...
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04.24.08Papervision Round-UpTo try to keep my mind from getting to muddled, I've dropped past posts on Papervision into one page for reference. (Also available in top nav). Enjoy.
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04.24.08Papervision AlternativeDigado points us to a Papervision-like Flash 3D development project built by a team of Russians at Alternativa 3D. Digado writes that the big advantage of this 3D world is its load time and the "smoothness in animations." The prototype is also a clientless and download-free model. While Papervision is an open source application that allows 3D "environments" in Flash, it's nice to see other efforts to develop a "client-less" 3D app. Although, just because it's 3D doesn't mean it has multiple avatars, but they have an ambitious roadmap as Digado points out. Two more samples of the 3D engine in full ...
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03.18.08Papervision Samples and Resources IVMore good stuff with Papervision...and the more I think about the utility of 3D environments using the Flash platform, the more excited I become...imagine once HTML on a prim hits Second Life if you could be in a virtual world, accessing a 3D space through a 3D object. Hmmm....rabbit holes within rabbit holes. In the meantime, a spherical version of the previous Flickr box I previously posted: Source PaperWorld is an open source project looking to build virtual worlds/multi-user environments on the Papervision platform. It promises the delivery of games such as the following: Video According to the PaperWorld site: PaperWorld3D is an open-source Flash/Java project ...
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