Comments on: PDFBook3D, a 3D flipbook engine

By: ilike2flash

ilike2flash — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:13:43 +0000

Looking good.

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By: bartek drozdz

bartek drozdz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:01:39 +0000

@michael There is no PDF-to-AS3 solution here. The PDF files are processed on the server-side and decomposed into an XML document and a series of images.

By: Prankard

Prankard — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:31:51 +0000

Looks awesome. I really like the way the amount of pages at the base change as you flick through the pages and the fact you’ve make it a hardback book!

By: michael

michael — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:15:15 +0000

This is an amazing project! The week before you announced this, I noticed that I hadn’t seen anything like this and was going to build my own in pv3d. I still probably will, since it’s so expensive.

I was not intending to have it generate from a PDF — How does that work? I’m aware of generating PDFs from Flash, but what is this AS3 runtime PDF solution??

By: bartek drozdz

bartek drozdz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:37:38 +0000

@kayluhb thanks, we will look into this!

@yayakut I use only one plane and the front & back materials available in Away3D. With PV3D its a bit more tricky – you need 2 planes to work in synch. Take a look at the source code from my first demo with bending:

http://www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/11/bending-modifier-papervision3d/

It was done before I put all the code in to AS3Dmod, but it should give you an idea on how I approached the subject.

By: yayakut

yayakut — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:44:56 +0000

Looks really nice!!!
Could you tell how you bind pages together?
I tried to fold (unfold) in half a piece of paper in Papervision, using a couple of planes (maybe it’s a wrong way to go?), and as3dmod, but the planes got disconnected.
I tweaked some parameters, but couldn’t make the planes stay together without making waving of the paper less realistic. What would you do to fold a piece of paper in half?

By: makc

makc — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:14:26 +0000

Real paper king :) I loved attention to details, such as box heights changing.

By: FlashBookmarks

FlashBookmarks — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:51:49 +0000

Lovely well done :)

By: Fedlarm

Fedlarm — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:09:21 +0000

Very nice job.. Quite surprised how well it performs, compared to the 2d ones. I also like the feature that it floats in 3d space, so you dont look directly on it.

By: kayluhb

kayluhb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:33:20 +0000

(should might == might) ;)

By: kayluhb

kayluhb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:30:30 +0000

Nice work, though it seems like there are some bugs to work out on the application side. They should might want to include a test for if(swfmacmousewheel != null) in the index.html file of the download package. When I open the file locally it throws an error in FF 3.0.8. Also, my PDF didn’t create anything. I’m going to try a new one, but all the flash stuff looks great!