http://www.paultondeur.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:41:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this part of the tutorial we'll have a look at how to load the some book information in the JSON format into Unity. For good comparison between JSON and XML, this file will describe the same books and uses roughly the same structure. Take a look at how that ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2010/03/23/tutorial-loading-and-parsing-external-xml-and-json-files-with-unity-part-2-json/ As being a Flash Developer for many years, I'm very used to just quickly loading and parsing an external XML file. Although this is possible with Unity, I found out there's very limited information about this subject available in a Unity context. While investigating this subject a while ago, I ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2010/03/23/tutorial-loading-and-parsing-external-xml-and-json-files-with-unity-part-1-xml/ On the 3rd of December, I'll be doing a workshop on getting started with Unity at the upcoming Adobe Usergroup XL meeting in Amsterdam. During this 2 hour workshop, a short introduction on Unity will be given. What is the tool and where could you use it for. Which elements ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/11/10/getting-started-with-unity-workshop-adobe-usergroup-xl/ Last Tuestday I presented at the pre-conference Unity for Flash developers day, at invitation of Unity. It was a very interesting day for every Flash developer who wants to get into Unity (which by the way is  very easy to get started with, as Unity Indy has been made a ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/10/29/unity-and-flash-the-best-of-both-worlds-unite-presentation-slides/ I already twittered this while being on vacation, however I thought it would be nice to give this some extra attention, since I think the conference is going to rock. After investing a lot of time since last years Unite conference in Copenhagen, it would be very interesting to see ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/10/09/speaking-at-unite-2009-in-san-fransisco-unity-for-flash-developers/ After more than 8 months of hard work, at least 1600 man-hours, writing 13 chapters and 428 pages, Jeff Winder and I are proud to let the world know that our book has finally been published! With this book we had the goal to write a book for beginners. A book ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/09/03/papervision3d-essentials-out-now/ 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 ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/07/24/papervision3d-essentials-a-book-by-paul-tondeur-and-jeff-winder-officially-announced/ Last Thursday a new campaign for Volkswagen went live, which makes use of mobile streaming. I did some work for this in cooperation with Achtung!, before looking at what I developed for this campaign let me first give a nutshell introduction. A new Volkswagen Polo is driving around in the Netherlands. ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/07/18/new-mobile-streaming-campaign-pak-de-polo/ The video registration of the Adobe Usergroup Meeting #12 about games is made available on the website of the Dutch Adobe Usergroup. This is including my presentation about serious multiplayer 3D games using Unity, Flash and Red5. I've receive quite some feedback, including some international feedback of people who are disappointed ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/05/20/serious-multiplayer-3d-games-using-unity-flash-and-red5-presentation-video/ Today's meetup of the Dutch Adobe Usergroup has been a very successful day. Not only because I did one of the presentations. The other presentations where very interesting as well. It was very interesting to hear experiences from other people that are involved with game development. The line-up was top ... http://www.paultondeur.com/2009/05/13/serious-multiplayer-3d-games-using-unity-flash-and-red5-presentation-slides/