To set up a Paperworld3D project you need to use several programs, which might be partly new for the average Flash developer. Since I know this makes it kind of hard to set up a project for the first time, I wrote down all the steps which I've taken to get the demo files up and running on my local machine.
Follow these steps exactly and you are able to get it all running too!
[NOTE] I'm using Windows XP, I'm not sure if all these steps are the same on Vista and Mac (Let me know!).

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Tags: Paperworld 3D, Red5, Tutorial by Paul Tondeur
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Go check out yourself: http://www.paperworld3d.com

Later on this weekend, I'll post my thoughts and examples about this very promising project!

[Update 2008-04-06]
During this weekend I've been looking into the source code. It's all well organized and Trevor Burton did an excellent job!
Since it's a first release, without any tutorials yet, it is kind of hard to get it all running right now. Errors found in the project could mean that I've misconfigured something, or that I've found a bug.
Trevor showed his will to help me out which I really appreciate. As soon as I have some working examples I'll write down my experiences on this blog.

Tags: Actionscript, General, Papervision3D, Paperworld 3D, Red5 by Paul Tondeur
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With Paperworld3D coming to us very soon I've been experimenting with a multiplayer papervision3D application. I've been using Adobe Media Server before to build some multiplayer applications, but this time I want to build it in red5, since I was inspired by Chris Allen's session at FITC Amsterdam about a month ago.

To keep it all very simple for now, I just made a simple cube with some textures. Each visitor of the application will be represented as an avatar, which is in this case just a plane with a random colored texture. The avatar can be controlled by using your arrow key's in combination with the mouse.
Locally the avatar is moving in a 3D environment and pushes it's position (x/y/z/rotationX) every half a second to the server. Every half a second each avatar in the 3D environment will look where all the other avatars are positioned at that moment and tweens each plane to that position, so it will all happen smoothly with a delay of half a second.

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Tags: Actionscript, Papervision3D, Red5 by Paul Tondeur
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