Drawing in Papervision3D
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
There’s a cool new demo ( with source code ) over at rockonflash of how to draw using Papervision3d. Check it out here.

There’s a cool new demo ( with source code ) over at rockonflash of how to draw using Papervision3d. Check it out here.

Go here to read about it and get the source code.

Using only real-time effects with ActionScript 3, this demo emulates a lot of old-school visual/video game effects. Set to a mashup/mix of 80’s video game sounds, this demo experience would definitely be enhanced by the use of drugs. Neat stuff.
From one of my favorites, The Flash Blog, comes a little article/example regarding the new Timer class in ActionScript 3. This class replaces the setInterval() and setTimeout() methods previously used in ActionScript to fire events. As well as having the functions of the two aforementioned methods, it has a few new helpful features.
Get yer web trendy lovin butts over to the BIT-101 blog and check out the super simple tutorial on how to create a “Web 2.0″ gradient menu bar using ActionScript 3. Lovely!