I've been meaning to play with Papervision for awhile, but haven't found the time. I finally squeezed in a little time to tinker, and the result is Yggdrasil 3D. The Yggdrasil is the world tree in Norse mythology that spans the underworld, earth and the heavens.
The scene is generated entirely programmatically (no prebuilt textures or models). Parts of it were harder than I expected, but I'm starting to get a good grip on it, and plan to do a series of experiments in ActionScript 3 and Papervision 3D.
Move your mouse around to view the tree from different angles. Click to generate a new random tree.
All around, Papervision is really fun to work play with. It still has some rough edges, but it's one of the most exciting open source Flash projects out there right now and I'm really looking forwards to future builds.
Comments (18)
Very nice work!
Posted by: Samuel Agesilas at July 16, 2007 06:29 PMURL: http://www.levelofindustry.com
nuts. Is there a way to use pre-built models with papervision?
Posted by: Brad Manderscheid at July 16, 2007 06:35 PMURL: http://www.bmanderscheid.com
Yes. PaperVision3D allows importing of COLLADA format models.
Posted by: Daryl Teo at July 16, 2007 07:25 PMURL: http://darylteo.com
Ahh... the danger of giving a picture a name... Don't you know the earth (Midgard) is flat? :-) And Yggdrasil with no leafs (being a giant ash) seems to be kind of dead (or maybe it's just winter)? And I can't see Asgard or the other two upper worlds (Asgard is kind of heaven) anywhere on the branches? So the world is doomed and heaven is gone... Just kidding. Nice work, and a reminder I have to find some time to experiment myself :-)
Posted by: Tore at July 16, 2007 11:46 PMURL:
Good to see you found some time to play with PV3D. It remembers me to some of the scene's from aranofsky's "The Fountain".....it's probably just the tree / ecosphere / out-in-space theme ;-) Anyway, looks very nice.
How's the MBP ?
Posted by: Ralph Hauwert at July 17, 2007 04:22 AM/r
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very nice G! Like that Star field - yes, you can't go wrong with adding star fields!!
Posted by: John Grden at July 17, 2007 07:25 AMURL: http://www.rockonFlash.com/blog
this is really awesome.
i cant belive you programmed
in all those vertices at run
time. is it random? or pre-scripted?
either way, its sweet.
Posted by: xero / fontvir.us at July 17, 2007 09:32 AMURL: http://the.fontvir.us/b10g
Nice job !
Posted by: Fardeen at July 17, 2007 12:23 PMURL: http://fardeen.biz
i like the Yggdrasil
but deep down i know you can do better :o)
its frightening to think what crazy awesome things you will come up with after spending some time with PV3D
Posted by: simonconlin at July 18, 2007 03:33 AMURL: http://www.yourminis.com/live.aspx?tabid=yourminis/simonconlin/flash
nice!!
but how did you get that shadow?
Posted by: Vic at July 18, 2007 04:04 PMURL:
Sweet! =)
Posted by: ugha at July 20, 2007 07:14 AMURL:
Excellent choice of theme;) But im Scandinavian so I'm biased;) hehe
Posted by: Chris Saila at July 20, 2007 05:09 PMURL: http://416DESIGN.COM
Cool where did you get the program!
Posted by: Roland at July 21, 2007 09:33 AMURL:
sigh...more papervision hype.
Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2007 12:49 PMURL:
Where's your website, Kevin?
Good work, Grant!
Posted by: Dragonfly at August 16, 2007 10:39 PMURL:
papervision will die soon or later
you just have to check alternativa 3d engine dev blog
http://blog.alternativagame.com/en/
see?
Posted by: Jack Bishop jr at September 20, 2007 02:06 AMURL:
Wonderful work.
Its also nice to be able to place a face to the name.
Warm Regards
Posted by: aYo at November 12, 2007 05:05 AMURL: http://magiclantern.co.uk
@Jack:
Posted by: Guest at December 1, 2007 10:07 AMWho cares about alternativagame.com, if it's not released under GNU/GPL? that's why PV3D ownz! think about it.
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