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Papervision3D Essentials

You're reading from  Papervision3D Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847195722
Pages 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Papervision3D Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Setting Up 2. Building Your First Application 3. Primitives 4. Materials 5. Cameras 6. Moving Things Around 7. Shading 8. External Models 9. Z-Sorting 10. Particles 11. Filters and Effects 12. 3D Vector Drawing and Text 13. Optimizing Performance

The Flint particle system


Although you can create particles in Papervision3D, it does not include an elaborate particle system. A Flash particle system that can be used in conjunction with Papervision3D is Flint, which was developed by Richard Lord. Flint is a well-structured open source library, which allows you to create all kinds of effects such as explosions, fountains, fireworks, and falling snow.

The next section will show you how to download Flint and how to create a fountain of Papervision3D particles.

Downloading the Flint particle system

The home of Flint offers information, examples, and tutorials, and can be found at http://flintparticles.org/.

Similar to Papervion3D, you can download an SWC with the compiled code or a ZIP with the source code. You can also download the code through SVN. The SVN repository is at: http://code.google.com/p/flint-particle-system/source/checkout.

To work with the ZIP or SWC, go to the Downloads section and download the featured version of either one...

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