3D Earth with Papervision 3D
February 25, 2008
Inspired by Yahoo’s NewsGlobe I decided to create my own 3d earth .. I used Papervision3d and NASA’s Blue Marble images to build it.
Right now it doesn’t do much, just rotates, but I plan on adding some more functionality later.
February 25th, 2008
Hi Mrinal,
Nice app for papervision3d. how long did you take to build this app. Few years back I had built a similar app with a rotating globe in flash and it was pretty easy in flash.
Papervision seems to be very promising. Whats your first hand impression of paperVision……Any plans to get the source code out?
Good work and thanks to you and Adobe for organising the FUG meet today.
-Anish
February 26th, 2008
Cool demo. I’d love to see some points of interest on it whereby you could zoom in and have a context menu of sorts popup. Kinda like Google Earth but purely a browser based quick app.
Have you had a chance to play with Sandy3D? I tried playing with Pv3D but didn’t really get too far with it. Sandy3D seemed a bit more intuitive to me.
February 26th, 2008
Hi Anish,
This took about 60-90 mins to build, so it wasn’t very difficult, but getting the hang of papervision3d takes some time purely because it is not documented very well (especially the new more interesting branches of code)
Papervision is definitely very promising … I feel that they have done a very good job at cashing in on the strengths of AS3 and FP3 .. even with quite detailed complex geometries things perform quite well.
As for the source, I plan on building this a little more, will release the source after that.
The FUG today was awesome! I had a lot of fun .. I hope everyone found it useful.
February 26th, 2008
Hey Justin,
I am thinking on exactly the same lines, will find some time soon to build something like that.
I haven’t looked at Sandy, but i did spend some time with Away3d .. my not so informed opinion is that papervision is more mature in terms of features and its has more people working on it so its evolving a lot faster than the other libraries.
September 30th, 2008
i also have tried same thing. as i m in the learning mode of papervision3d.
please visit
www(dot)geocities(dot)com/vickey11998844/Example007(dot)swf
click on the earth to change the shaders.
i have learn t it from a tutorial!!
April 2nd, 2009
Nice job!
Would you mind posting the source code?
May 11th, 2009
Pretty job!
Would you mind posting the source code?
Thanks!
May 11th, 2009
Hello,
This is very well done. Will you be posting the source code?
Thank you either way!
June 12th, 2009
Could you post your source code to me?
thank you.
June 12th, 2009
Everyone,
Thank you for your interest.
This later turned into a commercial project for a client, so I don’t own the source code to share.
Mrinal
June 20th, 2009
Hey, I know it’s been awhile, but maybe you’d like to check out my Earth as well.
http://blog.projectnibble.org/2009/06/19/papervision3d-clouded-planet-earth-tutorial-and-source/
June 21st, 2009
Hey Benny,
Very nice !
Mrinal