Mr.doob has just released Papervision3D Previewer 1.3 incorporating very cool features developed by Trent Grover from iMed Studios.
With this excellent tool you can preview your DAE, Ase, 3ds, kmz, MD2 objects and their animation before integrating them into the code. Very convenient for developers and designers alike.
More info here.
JiglibFlash is a Open Source Actionscript 3D Physics Engine. It’s ported by muzerly from the c++ open source physics engine jiglib and uses a part of jiglibX. The SVN source of JiglibFlash can be found here.
If you like physics (who doesn’t), make sure you check out the amazing JiglibFlash demo (click in the screen and use arrow keys and the space bar to ‘jump’).
Benoit Beauséjour has developed a spring powered camera class that works beautifully and is very easy to use.
The class implements spring physics to attach a 3D camera to a moving target allowing for complex motion like 3rd person, first person and chase. Very useful for racing games and such when you want to create a “natural” camera movement.
In Free Blender Models you will find free 3D models for Blender. Distributed under the GNU license, you can use it anyway you want, but you must credit the owner of the model.
Jim Foley from Mad Vertices is putting on a small PV3D contest for you to show off you 3D talent:
Papervision 3D Contest #1: Soccer Ball
1st Place: Swift 3D v5 (Provided by Erain.com)
2nd Place: $75 Amazon.com Gift Card
3rd Place: $25 Amazon.com Gift CardThis is a fun and simple contest aimed at learning, connecting and challenging yourself!
View full contest details here.
Daniel Loeb from the Subject dev team has submitted this offer:
Diverse team working on FPS using Papervision3D is looking for a skilled PV3D coder. We are a group of non-professional 3D modelers, animators, artists, and more, dedicated to making our ideas come to life. The coder will be responsible for integrating and scripting with the PV3D engine. Applicants familiar with the WOW physics engine are given bonus points. To contact us, please use the contact page at www.subjectgame.com
We’ve just committed a fix that enables the Garbage Collector to tidy up DisplayObject3Ds and materials after references to them have been lost.
If you’re interested in the back story, there’s a full write up on my blog.
If you’ve ever found any of my work with Papervision3D useful, please sponsor me for my 10K run next week for Cancer Research UK.
More info here, and here’s my sponsorship page.
Thanks!
Running a contest was definitely a learning experience. Without further ado, here are links to each of the entries for the PaperKing3D contest. I’ll organize this post so you can tell what is what later. I just wanted to get these up now:
*Disclaimer: We won’t be held responsible for these files damaging your computer in any way (although they did all pass through gmail’s virus checker) and we cannot guarantee they will work with the latest version from the repository.
PV3DDebug is a great debug console for your PV3D projects, with plenty of realtime stats and a powerful camera settings editor.
Created by Jason Bejot, make sure you check out his blog for more AS3 and PV3D tutorials and code.
Via [draw.logic]
