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Papervision Sprite Extruder

I wanted to have a play with creating programmatic models in Papervision 3D. My Flash 9 demo takes as input a transparent GIF OR PNG, and parses through this file, creating a 3D cube, for each pixel, which i can then fully control, in this case I slowly explode the sprite. Theres a few Sprites in there - just hit refresh to see a different one.

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By pete at 2007-01-10 11:46 | | pete's blog | login or register to post comments

I'd like to give this a try

I'd like to give this a try with PV3D v2.0 using files of 50x50 size. They promised PV3D v2.0 runs smoother, and as this is already running smooth it shouldn't be a problem right? I'll let you know if I succeeded :)

By SimoensS (not verified) at Tue, 2007-12-25 10:28 | login or register to post comments

Super awesome. Runs really

Super awesome. Runs really smooth!

By D3SPhil (not verified) at Thu, 2007-01-11 20:17 | login or register to post comments

Yeah was quite surprised

Yeah was quite surprised myself, especially with the big white hippo, i think thats about a 32*16 sprite... doing the maths

each pixel becomes one cube
one cube has 6 sides
each side has two triangles

= 12*32*16 = 6144 - say about half of the pixels are transparent so not rendered - thats still >3000 faces. :)

By pete at Mon, 2007-01-15 16:49 | login or register to post comments