Monthly Archive for August, 2008

View Collada Spongebob in Papervision

I had some time on my hands this weekend and decided to mess around with loading Collada models with Papervision. I snagged a few models from Google Sketchup and went to town. Also tried to work in some OOP instead of just having one huge papervision file. I really need to clean up the source but rest assured the full source will be posted soon.

Basic lesson is that you can load a Collada file with just actionscript (packaged as a zip or just the dae file)

[AS]
//Load zipped dae file
protected function loadKMZ():void
{
kmz = new KMZ();
kmz.load(“model/spongebob_squarepants.zip”);
kmz.addEventListener(FileLoadEvent.LOAD_ERROR, onKmzError);
kmz.addEventListener(FileLoadEvent.LOAD_COMPLETE, onKmzLoaded);

//Scale if needed
kmz.scale = 20;
container.addChild(kmz);
}

//load the dae file
protected function loadDAE():void
{
dae = new DAE();
dae.load(“model/spongebob_squarepants.dae”);
dae.addEventListener(FileLoadEvent.LOAD_ERROR, onDaeError);
dae.addEventListener(FileLoadEvent.LOAD_COMPLETE, onDaeLoaded);
container.addChild(dae);
}
[/AS]

I realize this is no great secret in the flash world (changing your keyboard shortcuts). The default setting is (SHIFT F12). Like most Flash Developers / Designers we adapt to our surroundings. If that be using a PC / Mac / someone else’s fla / code / etc.  Over the past few months I was presented with several projects where I had to compile multiple fla files. This is not too bad until you do cntrl+enter wait for the preview – close it – ctrl+enter review the changes and start the process over again. So I finally started to use (SHIFT F12) but depending on when I rebooted or changed my apple prefs I kept adjusting my volume and long story short it was getting to be a pain.

I personally like using CTRL and Backspace (DELETE on mac keyboard). The only drawback is that you may accidentally delete something. :/ But 99.9% of the time its uber quick.

To get to the menu just go to “Edit” > “Keyboard Shortcuts…”   – Duplicate the current set. The “Publish” option that does not also generate a preview is under “File” and about 1/2 ways down.

Hope this helps.