Papervision3D Essentials - A Book By Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder Officially Announced
I'm very delighted to finally announce that I have been working on the first Papervision3D book that will be released ever. The book is in cooperation with my good friend and co-author Jeff Winder and will be published by Packt Publishing. Since the beginning of this year we have been working extremely hard on the writing of this book. We are ready with the writing of all chapters and are preparing all final drafts right now. So you can expect this book to be published really soon.
The result of our hard work is that we have a book that will be useful for both experienced as non-experienced Papervision3D users. The first few chapters take no knowledge for granted and guides the reader through all steps for getting started with Papervision3D. It describes how to get Flash CS3, Flash CS4, Flex Builder and Flash Builder correctly configured for running Papervision3D code. This includes downloading Papervision3D (SWC, ZIP and a step-by-step guide for downloading from SVN). Once an example project has been compiled, a short introduction to OOP and classes is given for those who have no experience in this. From there the reader book gradually works through more advanced topics, such as loading external models, shading, z-sorting, viewport layers, particles, filters and effects, vector drawing and performance optimizations.
As the book contains much information on a variety of topics it is also interesting for those who already have experience in Papervision3D, but want to extend their knowledge and understanding. It was not aimed to be a reference guide, however it turns out that many topics are thoroughly described and can be used for this purpose as well. (I personally already did this while working on commercial projects that make use of Papervision3D)
Today the book has been announced on the website of our publisher, Packt Publishing and will soon be announced on other websites, like Amazon for example. For both Jeff and myself this is the first book we have ever written. Seeing our book and names listed is already very exciting.
We can't wait to have our book finished and hold the final copy in our hands. We did our best (and still do) to make this a very good book and we are looking forward to hear responses from our readers. But for now we will continue writing on the last bits. Once there's more news about the exact release date I will post it here on my blog.
[Update 2009-07-29] Papervision3D Essentials - Now listed on Amazon
Cool, but Mike Lively has already finished his Papervision3D book… http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/the-book-is-finished-chapter-summaries/
Congrats! Can’t wait to get my own copy. Exciting stuff.
Excellent……..I’ve been hoping someone would write a book on PV3D. I look forward to getting a copy of it.
Excellent work, i’m looking forward to seeing a copy, too - i know how hard you and jeff worked on this, paul, well done.
Hey guys. Great work.
Paul en Jeff gefelicitereerd met deze mijlpaal. Ben benieuwd naar het eindresultaat!
I love this PV3D book,but i am unhappy that there is not any copy of this book in China.
Thanks for these replies and mails I’ve received since the announcement. It is really nice to see the announcement caught attention
We know Mike Lively posted an article that his book has been finished and we’re interested to see the results of his hard work.
Keep an eye on this blog / Jeff’s blog / Twitter / Amazon / Packt Publishing, as the book will be available really soon.
Well done guys looking forward to it
guys, great work , already bought mine, can’t to see it in my hand.
Any chance you can make the source code for the examples available for download? It would be very helpful.
Hi Paul. I saw you on the aug meeting aboutg games in may. You announced that you were working on a book about papervision3D. I’ve been looking forward to it and bought it right away when it came out. It saves me so much time! No more searching on the internet where little bits of information are scattered all over the place. Thank you very much!
This is Great! I will buy the book. I do have a concern. I use a MacBookPro OS 10.5, and I can’t configure my camera to active with FLAR. Does your book address special conditions like this and other platform related variation? I have this same problem with configuring mySQL. All the literature seems to be directed to Windows and not Mac (Unix). I mean, they touch on it for Macs, but they always seen to be missing something, especially when it come to command line (administrator) entries stuff. Will you provide a “straight forward” configuration tutorial [that doesn’t require a degree in computer science to follow it] ?
thanks …
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Thanks for the friendly and positive feedback!
@scottd Source code and compiled versions of all examples can be found at the support page: http://www.packtpub.com/support/book/papervision3d-essentials
@Lawrence In the book we do not address FLAR Toolkit. However in the book we address everything to get the correct development environment for Papervision3D projects in the first chapter. This includes setting up for Flash CS3, Flash CS4, Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder. A step by step guide for downloading through SVN is also included.
Where necessary, we refer to differences under Mac and Windows. The book has been tested under both platforms. Jeff and I both wrote the book on a mac book, so I’m sure you’ll be good and can get along with the book.
Great book !
Hi, paul, I didn’t found the source of CH05\Demos , in 5722_Code.zip package. it only has swf file, those examples:CameraSettingsDemo,CameraTypesDemo,CullingDemo,FrustumClippingDemo,LookAtDemo, could not found any source file , can you have a check for http://www.packtpub.com/files/code/5582_code.zip?
lwz7512,
Go https://www.packtpub.com/support?nid=4213
Enter your email. In mail will you receive direct link to the code download.