Papervision 3D

The new bizz in Flash town is Papervision 3D, a open source free engine that allows you to create 3D content for your Flash animation.

• Awesome blog about sites that created using PaperVision3D.
• A demo of undersea view, using Papervision 3D.
• Tutorial mainly on creating 3D texture mapping using 3D studio Max.
• More tutorial on making 3D environment texture using 3D studio Max
• Tutorial on PaperVision3D 2.0
• Easy to following Getting Started steps in FAQ
• A great site done with Papervision3D, showing off how 3D persepctive can be done.
• EXamples on PaperVision3D that you can download.
• PaperVision3D Source Code
• Main page on papervision3d FAQ
  
• More showcase on the power of Papervision3D
• PaperVision 2 is coming, and here's some tutorial

A few things to mention when I try out the engine:

• It WORKS with the portable version of Flash CS3 professional (Yeah, I can code 3D everywhere I go!)
• The most critical thing is to make sure that the "...as3\truck\src" is in the Classpath under Actionscript 3.0 Setting. To check it, go to [Edit][Preferences...][ActionScript Tab][Actionscript 3.0 Setting button...]. If the path is not there, add it. It should save with the application. I mean, even the portable version I have works.
• On a Flash document (.fla) page, you can associate a class to it. In fact, a lot of demonstration on PaperVision3D put code in saperate .as class file, so you shall get familiar with the approach. It's actually pretty simple:
• In your hosting .fla file, enter the document class name in the Properties tab.
  
• Save the .fla file if it's not been saved.
  
• In the SAME directory of your .fla file. create a text file with .as extension with the SAME name of your class.
  
• Click the pencil button next to Document class textbox, and it should bring you the an editor with your .as class file loaded.
  
• Put your code in there.
• Compile, test movie.
• The Flash CS3, by default, won't save the files you modified before compile your movie. So make sure you save your files before testing any movie.