At first when trying to create my first few Papervision projects it seemed a bit overwhelming. As you work with it more and more you notice that there are really only a few elements for creating a simple Papervision project. Then you can forget about the code and just think about what cool things you can do.
For any Papervision 2.0 project you need:
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//As always your imports
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import flash.display.*;
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import flash.events.Event;
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import org.papervision3d.scenes.Scene3D;
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import org.papervision3d.view.Viewport3D;
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import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D;
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import org.papervision3d.materials.ColorMaterial;
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import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Plane;
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import org.papervision3d.render.BasicRenderEngine;
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//1) A Scene
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var scene:Scene3D = new Scene3D()
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//2) A Camera
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var camera = new Camera3D()
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//Setting the camera zoom to 11 will make sure your objects are rendered at 100%
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camera.zoom = 11;
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//3) A view area "viewport" - think of this as your canvas or stage for your 3D objects
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var viewport:Viewport3D = new Viewport3D(500,300,false,true,true)
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//4) A render engine
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var renderer:BasicRenderEngine = new BasicRenderEngine();
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//5) add the viewport to the stage
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addChild(viewport);
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//6) Something in your scene such as a Plane, Cube, Sphere, etc - in this case a plane with a black color material
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var plane:Plane = new Plane(new ColorMaterial(0x000000),100,100)
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//add your object to your scene
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scene.addChild(plane)
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//7) Create a loop for rendering your animation
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this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,render);
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function render(e:Event):void
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{
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//Add some simple animation
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plane.rotationY += 2; //Could also be plane.yaw(2);
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//Render the scene
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renderer.renderScene(scene,camera,viewport,true);
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}
Don't forget to download the latest Papervision code
The great thing is that if you build this once into a nice clean class, you can just keep re-using that class as your papervision starting place. Then you can do what you do best, create and have fun!
Start with this and add a cube or different materials and animations. Then toss in some Tweener code to get some cool movement effects. In a few days you'll have some amazing things.
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