Pv3D – Tips and resources for getting started

November 24, 2008 · Posted in 3D, Tutorials · Comment

These are some of the finding from my initial experience Papervision3D.

Tips:

To render both sides of a Plane; MovieMaterrial.oneSide = false or BitmatMaterial.doubleSided = true, depending on the type of material being used.
To apply alpha and filters, first you will need to set the primitives’ useOwnContainer property to true. Spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why my alpha value wasn’t being applied! So if you’re like me and dive in head first before reading the docs, this will save some time.
In order to view your 3D objects at their actual ( 100% scale ) size, I found the following values to work:
```
 camera.zoom  = 10;
 camera.focus  = 200;
 camera.z  = -2000;
```
When using BitmapMaterial, set the smooth property to true to apply smoothing to the loaded bitmap.
To make an object interactive, set the object’s material interactive property to true

Resources:

http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/ – Well written, top quality bunch of tutorials. Although they are built with Away3D, it’s quite easy to transfer the techniques to Pv3D. These tutorials a very valuable for the 3D techniques that are tought, rather than the actual code.
http://dev.papervision3d.org/ – Pv3D dev blog
http://dev.papervision3d.org/2008/09/01/first-steps-in-papervision3d/ – First steps in Papervision3D is a great series of tutorials by Tartiflop. A must read!
http://www.madvertices.com/search/label/Papervision%203D - Tutorials by Mad Vertices. Lots of great examples and inspiration.
http://pv3d.org/ – Collection of very useful code samples on how to perform various functions.
more links can be found at http://delicious.com/sprit3.
http://papervision2.com/tutorial-list/