gettin' my head round papervision
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- wwfc
Anyone know of a easy to follow tutorial for getting started with papervision?
I have downloaded the papervision stuff, and put them where they should go (from the instructions on google code) - and then imported the class in the publish settings/as3/ using the sniper icon.
But I keep on getting errors about classes not being found :-(
I have tried to follow the googlecode 'how to' but I am doing something wrong somewhere along the way! Have got a couple of the example flas that I have sourced of the net.
But on the whole I get **fail**!
How do you get it working?
- Frosty_spl0
you have to go into flash preferences and tell flash where your folder is.
I still never figured out how to exactly make something new though.
- wwfc0
...cheers for that - I know! it is very headmashing!
- wwfc0
...okay still trying to work out how to get papervision running properly.
Been messing around with examples - some work some don't.I am as we speak trying to work with a project that is for a client - first problem is that I am trying to set it up in CS4 - the as3 settings prefs pane is different to cs3 - there are three lots of choices...
Anyone have any idea which paths go in which boxes???The other thing is - when I compile the swf I get an error that tells me that on of the class paths is wrong - com.mediastuttgart.imageworld3d does not reflect the location of this file - yet my directory is set up with all of the classes in a folder named com - then sub folders etc... so the imageworld3d classes are in a folder called mediastutgart within the com folder that sits at the same level as the .fla/,as/.swf files - I have also changed the doc's as3 settings to reflect this MOFO!
Anyone experienced this before? anyone tell me wtf is going wrong with this please - my next approach might just be an act of extreme violence against my laptop!!!! nnnnrghh!
Any advice welcome ;-)
- monNom0
http://papervision2.com/tutorial…
the "flash develop" IDE they recommend is actually a nice way to work in papervision.
- wwfc0
...Thanks for this monNom - I had visited that sit before - which is the tut I need to concentrate on - looking at preparing your tools - it mentions that I can set up the flex sdk - but in cs4 there is already one in the main as prefs...
Is there a particular tut on that url I should be looking at?
- monNom0
I haven't used CS4, but have gotten papervision working after following the instructions on the site above (and using the flash develop IDE). it sometimes helps to read comments on that site as well.
be aware that there are different versions of papervision which use different folder structures (so far as I could tell). I think the version recommended above is code named 'great white' and the tutorials pertain to that codebase specifically.
- wwfc0
...okay cheers again - I'll see where it all leads!
Papervision is such a great thing when it works - but the whole shabang relies on people already knowing their way things - and no set way of finding support - almost like "this is the most important part of getting this working, but I'm not going to tell how..."Cheers for the help again though ;-)
Appreciate it
- rounce0
http://adobebook.blogspot.com/20…
You might want to do some reading up on coordinate systems in 3d space, transformation matricies, and raster graphics 101; as alot of PV3D tutorials will assume you know how to work with this. Feel free to email me as I'm _still_ finding my way around the library and likely will have reached the same stumbling point.
- wwfc0
...yeh, what a learning curve!!! cheers rounce
- wwfc0
...hmmm...
so i don't get any compiler errors now - hopefully a good thing...
BUT...
I get this...
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FilterShortcuts is not defined.
at com.mediastuttgart.imageworld3d...
at Application/::init()
at Application$iinit()in the output pane - what does that mean - apart from still not working?
is it to doc with the project settings or the main as prefs? any ideas??