Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Setting Up
• Downloading Papervision3D
• Difference between compiled and non-compiled source code
• What is Subversion?
• What's inside the ZIP?
• And what's inside the SWC?
• Choosing between the SWC, the ZIP, and the SVN
• Downloading the non-compiled source using SVN
• On Windows
• On Mac OS X
• Downloading the non-compiled source in the ZIP file
• Downloading the compiled source
• Configuring your authoring tool for Papervision3D
• Configuring Flash
• Set the path to the non-compiled source code in Flash (CS3 and CS4)
• Set the path to the compiled source code in Flash (Only CS4)
• Running an example in Flash
• Configuring Flex Builder and Flash Builder
• Importing an example project
• Setting the path to the non-compiled source code in Flex and Flash Builder
• Setting the path to the SWC in Flex and Flash Builder
• Running the example in Flex Builder and Flash Builder
• Where to find the Papervision3D documentation
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Building Your First Application
• Introduction to classes and object-oriented programming
• Creating a custom class
• Inheritance
• Working with the Document Class/Main Application File
• Setting up the document class for Flash
• Setting up the document class for Flex Builder and Flash Builder
• Basics of a 3D scene in Papervision3D
• Scene
• Camera
• Viewport
• 3D Objects
• Material
• Render engine
• Left-handed Cartesian coordinate system
• Creating a basic class for Papervision3D
• The basic document class
• Finalizing your first application
• Smart programmers use less code
• Preparing for the book examples
• Working with the BookExampleTemplate class
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Primitives
• The basic elements of 3D objects
• Vertices
• Triangles
• The rendering pipeline
• Creating and adding primitives
• Plane
• Sphere
• Cylinder
• Cone
• Cube
• PaperPlane
• Arrow
• Nesting
• World space versus local space
• Creating a pivot point with DisplayObject3D
• Accessing vertices
• Example—building a sphere of spheres
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Materials
• Introduction to materials
• Basic properties
• Basic materials
• Wireframe material
• Color material
• Three ways of using bitmaps as a material
• BitmapMaterial
• Using a bitmap shape as material that is generated by code
• Manually loading and assigning an external bitmap as material
• BitmapFileMaterial
• BitmapAssetMaterial
• Two ways of using a movie clip as material
• MovieMaterial
• MovieAssetMaterial
• VideoStreamMaterial
• Combining materials
• Interactivity
• Material interactivity
• Using ButtonMode
• Defining the event listeners
• Object interactivity
• Tips and tricks
• Tiling
• Flipping your material
• Power of two textures
• Example—creating a carousel
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Cameras
• Cameras inherit from DisplayObject3D
• Basic camera settings
• Focus and field of view
• Zoom
• Zoom, focus, and field of view relate to each other
• Near and far
• Camera types
• The target camera
• The free camera
• Demonstrating the difference between the free camera and the target camera
• Switching between the free camera and the target camera
• The debug camera
• The spring camera
• Adding basic navigation
• Putting the spring camera to work
• Setting a target with the lookAt() method
• Culling
• Types of culling in 3D computer graphics
• Two levels of culling in Papervision3D
• Applying frustum culling
• Applying culling on viewport level
• Seeing culling at work
• Clipping
• Clipping in Papervision3D with FrustumClipping
• Seeing frustum clipping at work
• Culling and clipping in the rendering pipeline
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Moving Things Around
• What can we move around?
• How can we move things around?
• Rotating objects
• Alternatives for local rotation—pitch(), yaw(), and roll()
• Another type of rotation—rotationX, rotationY, and rotationZ
• Demonstrating the difference between rotation and local rotation
• Mouse interaction
• Getting the distance from the mouse to the center of the stage
• Basic mouse interaction
• Mouse interaction with easing
• Using mouse interaction to rotate an object
• Orbiting the camera around an object
• Orbiting the camera by moving the mouse
• Orbiting the camera by dragging the mouse
• Clamping the camera rotation
• Animating with Tweener
• Downloading Tweener
• Tweening 3D objects
• Tweening the camera over a curved path
• Example—the galaxy extended
• Creating a class for user input
• Creating a class for the galaxy
• Creating a class for the paper plane
• Initializing the application in our document class
• Controlling the camera
• Adding dynamic zoom
• Adding a third-person camera
• Adding a first-person camera
• Adding random camera perspectives
• Switching back to the default view
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Shading
• Introduction to shading
• Flat shading
• FlatShadeMaterial for color-based shading
• FlatShader for bitmap-based shading
• Gouraud shading
• Cell shading
• Phong shading
• Bumping your materials
• Reflection mapping
• Example—shading the Earth in our galaxy
• Adding a shader and a bump map
• Summary

• Chapter 8: External Models
• Modeling for Papervision3D
• Keep your polygon count low
• Add polygons to resolve artifacts
• Keep your textures small
• Use textures that Flash can read
• Use UV maps
• Baking textures
• Use recognizable names for objects and materials
• Size and positioning
• Finding the balance between quality and performance
• Creating a template class to load models
• Creating models in Autodesk 3ds Max and loading them into Papervision3D
• Installing COLLADA Max
• Creating the Utah teapot and export it for Papervision3D
• Importing the Utah teapot into Papervision3D
• Exporting and importing the Utah teapot in 3ds format
• Importing animated models
• Animation clips
• Creating and loading models using SketchUp
• Exporting a model from Google's 3D Warehouse for Papervision3D
• Importing a Google Earth model into Papervision3D
• Creating and loading models using Blender
• Exporting a textured cube from Blender into Papervision3D
• Keeping control over your materials
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Z-Sorting
• What is z-sorting
• The painter's algorithm
• Sorting triangles
• Layering your renders
• Creating a viewport layer
• Creating a viewport layer using useOwnContainer
• Creating and sorting a viewport layer using getChildLayer
• Creating a viewport layer by instantiating a new ViewportLayer
• Sorting layers
• Sorting layers with ViewportLayerSortMode.Z_SORT
• Sorting layers with ViewportLayerSortMode.ORIGIN_SORT
• Sorting layers with ViewportLayerSortMode.INDEX_SORT
• Creating and sorting sublayers
• Quadtree rendering
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Particles
• What particles are and why to use them
• Billboarding
• Particle systems
• Creating particles
• A template class for all the examples
• ParticleMaterial
• BitmapParticleMaterial
• Using a dynamically drawn bitmap as BitmapParticleMaterial
• Passing a ParticleBitmap instance to the BitmapParticleMaterial constructor
• Using a loaded bitmap as BitmapParticleMaterial
• MovieAssetParticleMaterial
• Creating an animated movie clip for Flash, Flex Builder, and Flash Builder
• Exporting the animated clip as an SWC for Flex Builder and Flash Builder to use
• Creating the document class for Flash, Flex Builder, and Flash Builder
• Adding interactivity to MovieAssetParticleMaterial
• Embedding a bitmap in Flex Builder and Flash Builder as the source of MovieAssetParticleMaterial
• Creating particle fields with the ParticleField class
• Particles don't have to be tiny—a billboard example
• The Flint particle system
• Downloading the Flint particle system
• Creating a fountain of shiny balls with Flint
• The emitter
• The counter
• Initializers
• Actions
• The renderer
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Filters and Effects
• What are filters and effects?
• Using Flash filters to create effects
• Applying BlurFilter, DropShadowFilter, and GlowFilter to a 3D object
• Setting the transparency and blend mode of a viewport layer
• Changing filters, alpha, and blend mode dynamically
• Applying filters on viewport level
• Directly apply filters to the entire viewport
• Apply filters on viewport level with BitmapViewport3D
• Built-in Papervision3D effects
• Creating an effect layer
• Methods to affect the way the effect is displayed
• Adding a color effect with BitmapColorEffect
• Adding a fire effect with BitmapFireEffect
• Adding a pixelating effect with BitmapPixelateEffect
• Adding a motion effect with BitmapMotionEffect
• Adding a Flash filter as an effect with BitmapLayerEffect
• Combining effects
• Adjusting the effect with BitmapDrawCommand
• Adding fog with FogFilter
• Adding reflection with ReflectionView
• Adding objects with no reflection
• Example—creating depth of field
• Summary

• Chapter 12: 3D Vector Drawing and Text
• VectorVision: 3D vector text and drawing
• Creating a template class for the 3D text examples
• How to create and add 3D text
• Font creation
• Adding interactivity to 3D vector text and shapes
• Adding interactivity to 3D text
• Drawing vector shapes—lines, circles, and rectangles
• Drawing lines with Lines3D
• How drawing with Lines3D works
• Straight lines
• Curved lines
• Adding lines with addNewLine()
• Creating segmented lines
• Adding interactivity to Lines3D lines
• Growing lines example
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Optimizing Performance
• Measuring performance
• Basic optimization strategies
• Stage quality
• Other general Flash optimizations
• Destroy unwanted objects
• Viewport size
• Camera frustum and field of view
• Culling
• Creative thinking
• Optimizing materials
• Transparency
• Tiled
• Power of two textures
• Material size
• Animated materials
• Optimizing objects
• Remove objects that are behind other objects
• Level of detail
• Optimizing shading
• Optimizing rendering
• Only render when you need to
• Selective rendering
• Viewport scaling
• Summary

• Index