History
Papervision is the 3D engine I’ve been working on during the past months.
It started as a simple way to transform MovieClips to achieve the 3D illusion. By changing their position, size, rotation and skew you could almost forgive the lack of perspective.
But the latest version, fully optimised for Flash 8 Image API, uses triangle tesselation to distort textures. Now we can render complex objects in “real 3D”!
Constant benchmarking and understanding the player’s strengths and limitations are essential to getting the best performance. I’ve also learned a lot from using it in real projects. Most of the features have been added to solve problems found during production.
[Update: Papervision goes open souce]
Version 4
October 2006, Flash 8
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Version 3
June 2006, Flash 8
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Version 2
April 2006, Flash 7
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Version 1
March 2006, Flash 7
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Version 0.9 Beta
December 2005, Flash 7
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
I started playing with 3D on the Atari ST and later on the Amiga. Made a living out of it when moved into PlayStation development, but almost forgot it all when I switched to web design.
But time has passed by and Flash has improved greatly. With higher processing power and much faster screen rendering, it’s now possible to get really nice results.
And most of the techniques that were used during the early days of realtime 3D graphics, are now valid again.
At least, until we have 3D hardware support.
February 12, 2007 at 12:25 am |
Love the demos – great work! What’s the chance of adding a stereoscopic mode to your engine? The only thing that would make this even cooler would be stereocopic 3D rendered by a Flash engine
February 12, 2007 at 2:32 pm |
[...] Web’s most ubiquitous presentation medium is getting a new boost in 3D imaging from an open source group calling themselves Papervision3D. Their 3D engine, also called Papervision, works with the Flash 8 [...]
February 15, 2007 at 9:26 am |
Hi,
I’ve seen your projects and I was quite impressed. I do volunteer work for a museum in Greece. I created the website and I also want to make a 3d tour of the museum. I was wondering whether I can use you tool.
Could you please tell me if this is possible and what you require from us?
Thank you in advance.
February 15, 2007 at 10:44 am |
Papervision3D is going to be released under the MIT license.
That means you can do whatever you want with it, commercial or not.
It’s not required, but it would be nice if you kept us updated of your progress.
March 15, 2007 at 5:07 pm |
What are the chances of being able to “Draw” 3d images dynamically? Similar to how 2D objects can be dynamically drawn using the drawing API in ActionScript.
March 26, 2007 at 11:02 pm |
Hola Carlos,,
Soy el padre de Loreta,,,de pronto haciendo ftp, con un colega aleman me he acordado de ti. Hace tiempo te envie un foto de Loreta via el navegador de internet de microsoft.
me parecio interesante ese metodo.
Me he dicho voy a ver a Carlos, sus nuevos proyectos y su pagiana Web. Siempre me sorprendes, ya veo tienes el programa Papervision 3D bastante adelantado y con codigo abierto, lo cual me ha encantado, y felicito por ello, Tambien veo que te vas a Canada a enseñarlo, te deseo lo mejor de los exitos, espero verte algún día por Madrid, y te comas la paella tienes pendiente. Te deseo lo mejor Juan ANtonio
May 2, 2007 at 1:35 pm |
fabuloso programa!
June 4, 2007 at 3:24 pm |
[...] Papervision3D ist eine 3D Rendering Engine für Flash. Und da Flash sich mittlerweile als alles verschlingende Basisplattform durchgesetzt hat, könnte das big werden. Zumal das Projekt OpenSource ist. [...]
June 29, 2007 at 8:03 pm |
Hi there,
I absolutely love what you have done with Papervision 3D. I hope to use it in some of my upcoming projects. It’s nice to see this done by a Jedi / Amiga user!
Regards,
Domenic
July 10, 2007 at 3:08 pm |
[...] old yet impressive samples of the engine in development that could be seen here show the potential of this engine for creating interactive 3D movies. You can watch the new video [...]
November 24, 2007 at 8:13 am |
[...] è un eccezionale progetto realizzato con la tecnologia Papervision3D. Questa applicazione non e’ altro che un player musicale con un sistema di navigazione 3D. [...]
November 24, 2007 at 1:12 pm |
[...] 24 Novembre, 2007 di Marco Moretti Flame è un eccezionale progetto realizzato con la tecnologia Papervision3D. Questa applicazione non e’ altro che un player musicale con un sistema di navigazione 3D. L’ [...]
February 29, 2008 at 9:04 pm |
[...] ganze wurde mit der OpenSource 3D Enginge Papervision realisiert, welche wohl gerade ganz groß im Kommen ist, was aber bisher völlig an mir [...]
April 12, 2008 at 9:03 pm |
[...] by giving away my work for nothing? The creators of PaperVision, Carlos Ulloa, John Grden and the rest of the crew, answer this question. Rather than being the authors of a great 3D engine no-one knows about, by [...]
June 10, 2008 at 4:53 pm |
I’m going crazy trying to find a Papervision demo that I was looking at yesterday… it’s a walking paper man. He looks like someone cut him out from photographs… it’s great! Does anyone know what I’m talking about and where to find it? Thx!