Well I have been working on an RSS feed reader that is papervision3d based it is still nowhere near where I would like it to be. I have about a slew of other ideas on how to improve this project and I am just getting started that is why it is an alpha. I have a great deal of code refactoring to do so as a result I will not be sharing the code. I have thought about this project for sometime. I love papervision3d and I think out of all the as3 library’s out there for 3D code this is the weapon of choice for me. It has a so many features that it is impossible to list them all on this blog post. I have also been playing around with SWX and really looking forward to an as3 version of it. I am well aware of the flash.net Local connection library but with the latest version of the flash player and new security settings I have shied away from using it with as3 Papervision3d code. I have also been thinking about redoing this project using an earlier version of PV3D. The great white beta is awesome love it and I am not sure if my time is better spent working on an older version that may run as2 or working on improving Papervision3d itself. I have noticed it’s response to planes that are textured with dynamic text can be difficult for example if I amp up this feed reader to over 20 posts it crashes. I am looking forward to the opportunity of maybe finding some fixes for these problems myself. I discovered this issue while populating it with 40 blog posts to render at one time. The code runs an array that is populated with the xml using a for loop and push in as3 the reason why I did not combine the for loop xml and the actual creation of the posts is due to the bitmap error I am currently recieving in PV3D2. One way I could improve this code is to create an object that contains all the feed data and create a timer that slows down the actual execution of the code so that papervision3d has enough time to apply the textures to the planes. I would also like to add some special effects papervision3d allows you to wrap your displayobject3d’s with an effects layer that makes for some ridiculously cool effects. So please don’t take this as a finished product I have hear because it is not! I have also thought about creating a feed reader that has cubes with movie textures that are created to house all the text (as in all 40 posts). I could do this by dynamically creating the movies in an array of Movie Materials that are interactive this way I would not have to clog the PV3D side of the code. I may choose to go that route in the near future. It is fun to work on these projects and It helps keep my mind sharp. I throughly enjoy creating stuff and use these experiments both to help me on my new portfolio and my OOP skills in general. I find this stuff fun and exciting if you can believe that. I get a real kick out of doing something new! I will also be redoing this project in Silverlight using Kit3d. The reason for this is simple because I can. I don’t really believe in saying one technology is better than the other. I just really like to play with all technologies and want to learn something new. I guess I am technologically agnostic. I just want an end result one that can be viewed on any computer with the same result and that is usually difficult thanks to Microsoft technologies but they have been making strides to make silverlight play well on all computers and I like the ability to use C# as an option not to mention the DLR with Silverlight.
PaperVision3D RSS Reader Alpha Click Here – Please be patient no loader yet.
So what have I been up too? Well building a new computer for starts my AMD died and it was my Ubuntu box. Instead of going out there and purchasing a computer I have decided to put it together myself. I have 90% of the parts now. I should have it completed in the next 3 weeks. It will run Ubuntu/Vista on a dual boot 1.5 terabyte hard drive, Quad Core, 16gb RAM, in a shell that lights up and looks like HAL9000. I will also continue working on my flash experiments and polishing them I would like my new portfolio to resemble CompizFusion Ubuntu I will utilize as3 and silverlight2 to do this. I would like to create one version using Silverlight and the other in as3. I want them to be as similar as possible displaying both technologies and allowing the user to pick which version they would like to see. It is one of my more ambitious projects to date. Things at work are going well I love working on Salesgenie.com and I am fortunate to work with exceptionally bright and passionate people that I am constantly learning from! So my skills have been improving rapidly! I am also ready for winter to set in. I have a plethora of books to consume and numerous magazines piling up and begging my attention! This winter won’t all be technical jargon though I have to throw in some art and literature to be a full rounded person you know. Tomorrow at the Joslyn I am going to see Diego Rivera you know Frida’s husband and looking forward to it. On a side note I found this video on Youtube of Joshua Davis thought I was way cool really like his work!
I will also be working on improving my exceptionally simple generative art application. I have been thinking of numerous ways I can and will improve it in the near future. The feed reader in Papervision3d and the generative art application will eventually be apart of my new Portfolio once they are polished and as you can see they are both along ways from that. This stuff takes time and their never seems to be enough time in the day. Oh well I know the weather is getting cold and that gives me a good excuse to polish my work!
What I have been reading lately:
4X4 Life and Oblivion
Robert Penner
Mathographics Recommended by the Flash Blog
Cool Librarys of Code:
Flare
Birds Eye
PaperVision3D
Cool Posts:
Flash Mathographics
gSkinner Flash Audio Demo
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