In my last project I lost some time just to set a textformat to a simple textfield. The font was well linked in the librairy, but the textformat (particularly the font) didn’t apply to the textfield.
I found the reason : flash renames bitmap fonts and adds the suffix : _SIZEpt_st.
- Verdana becomes Verdana_12pt_st
- Arial becomes Arial_12pt_st
- etc.
My first Papervision project is online, yyyeeaaahhh!!!
With my company, I’ve developped the new Diesel Factory website. Now you can customize your own fragrance bottle and watch the result live in 3d.
Have a look at : http://www.diesel-factory.com.
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In Papervision, the 3D Objects are defined in Collada files. Collada files are just XML files with a specific DTD (or schema). In consequence, colladas inherit the same qualities and defects as XML. One of the main defect is the file size which can be a major problem if you’re doing an online application.
Here a little tutorial to display a zipped collada in a papervision application : demo (more…
In this little tutorial, I’ll show you how to connect to the Flickr Service in actionscript3.
First of all, you’ll need :
- a Flickr account
- a Flickr API Key
- the Adobe as3flickrlib
- the Adobe as3corelib
Senocular has just published a great tutorial on actionscript3 : Getting started with actionscript 3.0 and Adobe Flash CS3. This is a must-read tutorial for the ones who want to learn as3 or migrate from as2 to as3.
By the same time you can download for free the “Adobe Integrated Runtime (Air) for Javascript developers” from Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura and Kevin Hoyl on the ajaxian website.
Finally, you can download the Papervision 3D cheatsheet on the http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com website.
Leave your Harry Potter book, you have to many things to read and not enough time
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