At 12/13/07 09:39 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:
Hows that going by the way? Worth the £300 after all?
Tom-
As a double introduction to the wonderful worlds that are Actionscript 3 and Papervision, it was worth every penny and the horrific conditions of the London Underground's Central Line. Ralph (unitzeroone, and one of Papervision's inner team members) blazed through every topic barely giving us time to think, but covered so much ground so quickly that I think I actually managed to learn something.
I'm now back at work letting it all sink in, but the conference was cool. Learning the Papervision 2.0 API is a heavy recommendation for any actionscripter out there - I'm waiting to see people use it in the Portal (which should be challenging... obviously we can't import external 3d models with one-swf files, but I'm sure people can get away with using primatives)
God the ground covered. Going from "Hi, this is Papervision, this is how you make the Earth appear on your screen" to "Okay now we've got all the different primatives in this viewport, but THIS viewport is actually bitmap data which reads THAT viewport and makes a trail blur effect, and every time we click on them the camera focuses on them and this is how we draw on thier surfaces and look, we have a particle field being rendered in the viewport behind..." in two days... that was great.
Plus, Flex is awesome.
