THE HALL OF GREAT GURUS

According to some Gurus who have tried and tested Flash Platform, they say it is a great tool to create nice effects with ease. With the introduction of Flash 3D Engines, the ability and success of creating flash 3D objects is even bigger.

With reference to my experience, most 3D applications you'll write will need to display custom 3D models. However there are many times when you'll need to display some pretty standard shapes like triangles, cubes and spheres. Rather than have to load these as external meshes, Flash and Away3D allows you to create them directly. Here are some of the best 11 Flash 3D Tutorials Using Actionscript and Away3D which might come in handy for developers. Hope you like them.

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D

This tutorial article is a Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d.

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Papervision 3D Depth Of Field

In the demo you can modify the focal point of the camera using the slider on the left hand side. Notice that as you slide it up the objects in the background gradually come into focus. Likewise as you slide it down the objects in the foreground are focused upon.

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Create 3D Shuffling Image Transition

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a transition between two images where the images are shuffled like playing cards in a 3D space. You can control the duration of the transition and the ease type.

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Creating and Texturing a Cube in Away3D

We're going to create a cube in the Adobe Flash (or Flex) environment using the Away3D engine. We'll choose the necessary texture and superimpose it onto the cube's faces. We'll also make the cube rotate and rule the scene via a camera.

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3D Carousel with XML and ActionScript 3

This tutorial is an interesting one. We’ll be creating a Flash 3D carousel using XML and ActionScript 3. You can easily change the number of images seen in the carousel to fit for your needs!

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Away3D Programming Tutorial - Environment Material

Environment mapping is a process that aims to fake the look of the external world reflected on an object. See how to use the EnviroBitmapMaterial to create a real time reflective look in Away3D.

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Create Image Transition With Flying Tiles In 3D

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a transition where parts of the image are flying in different directions in a 3D space and then are being put together again to create a different image. Besides other parameters you can control the size of the ’tiles’ and the duration of the transition.

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3D manipulation with Actionscript 3

This tutorials cover the 3 properties that makes most of the 3d space in flash 1.trace(myMC.rotationX); 2.trace(myMC.rotationY); 3.trace(myMC.z).

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Alternativa 3D Series - Loading Model

A basic function of any 3D engine is to load 3D models. Alternativa has the ability to load 3D models stored in both the 3DS and OBJ formats. In this tutorial we will learn how to load a 3DS model.

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Photo Cloud

In this tutorial you will learn about Papervision Viewport3D object that has a nifty little function called hitTestPoint2D, which allows us to pass in the mouse coordinates and get the DisplayObject3D (if any) that lies directly underneath.

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3D Tunnel with ActionScript 3

Learn how to create a cool 3D tunnel with ActionScript 3. Play around with the values to see how they change the look of the tunnel!

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One More Tutorial Worth Looking At:
3D Sliding Puzzle Game

In this tutorial they are going to build up a simple sliding puzzle. Puzzle images are dynamically loaded and sliced so you can easily use your own images if you like. Learn, and try.