3D timer
(Click the movie and press spacebar to restart the counter if you don't see it.)
Seb asked me to make him a countdown timer for his 15 minute talk yesterday. He asked for something simple. So I made one. But wouldn't it be nice if I used Papervision3D to make it 3D? So, with a bit of John's code, it was. But if it's 3D, it should spin. So it did. But these days, 3D isn't 3D unless... it's on fire! So, with Grant's fire component, it was!
That's the version I surprised Seb with before his talk.
This morning though, I thought, it just isn't Flash these days if it doesn't have particles. So I added Seb's particle code to it so that the lighter areas emit sparkles. And I upped the number of planes to five and offset them on the z axis to create a nicer illusion of depth (the original was a single plane but ran well at 30fps, fullscreen on the 800x600 projector).
So I took bits of Seb, John, and Grant, and made a 3D spinning count-down timer... on fire... with particles!
It runs like a dog but hey, it runs. (And if I find out how to extrude a plane in PV3D it will run much faster!)
PS. I set the duration on here to 30 seconds so that you can see it go *poof* at the end. Click on the movie and press spacebar to reset the counter if you see an empty black space as the timer may have run out.
The 3D Papervision count-down timer. On fire! With particles! article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
Oh noes…. I see an era of flaming 3D in Flash. I hope we survive it! ;)
Keith, Keith, Keith! Flaming 3D in Flash was last week. It’s flaming 3D in Flash _with particles!_ Really, now, keep up! :P
How about a skull too? You should be ashamed of yourself Aral. ;-)
What Flash player should I be running to see this? I have 9,0,47,0 installed, and all I can see is a black window :-( Does this mean I need the 9,0,65,0 installed for it to work? Or is it just flaking out at the moment?
Hi Lee,
Could it just be that the timer ran out? Try clicking in the movie and pressing spacebar to reset it.
how to make the most illegible counter EVER!!! Hahaha I had to keep asking the audience how much time I had left cos I couldn’t read the bloody thing! :-) PV3D has a lot to answer for sometimes… ;-)
Hey, at least I didn’t put in the star field. Yeah, there was going to be a star field too :)
A very nice exemple with papervision.
Is it possible to see an example of code to make this sort of mouvement with papervision ?
Nah, tried that and it didn’t work, so I installed 9,0,64,0 (latest version) anyway and now it’s fine.
neat