Just a few things to sort out once I get the time

Not posted anything here for a while. Will be doing a full refresh of my blog soon (as well as my main site).

It is in need of some serious TLC. 

I finally had a chance to mess around a with Papervision3D after not using it for a while and have seen many new features that have been added. Reflection View is one of them. Now making a reflective surfaces is very easy indeed.

I am always using BasicView to set up many of my projects in Papervision. BasicView is a class that sets up the basics you need to make a 3D environment. The ReflectionView class extends upon this by adding the reflective surface in your 3D environment. It is very simple to use. I tested the sample provided by Seb Lee-Delisle on his blog to see how ReflectionView would fair on multiple cube objects, so I wired it up to an earlier version of the 100 Best Films project. I have to say ReflectionView seems to handle many cube very well indeed.

Click the images above to view my experiements using the ReflectionView class.

100 Best Films is a personal Papervision3D project collaboration between myself and my buddy Mike Ewing.

The aim was to create a model to visually display data. The Idea was to create a swarm of cubes where each cube would represent some form of data.

After weeks of planning and testing of theories to see what was and was not possible with using Papervision3D we came up with 100 Best Films. Its still a little rough around the edges. After we had Finally created out model using a swarm of cubes we had the simple task of deciding what king of data to use to populate our creation. A random article on 100 films we saw on the internet is what we use for our data and decided it woule be cool as we could wrap our cubes in jpegs of the film posters to make them look like DVD box sets.

Click the image above to view the project.

For all the PV3D developers out there the PV3D team have now put up a blog where you can find news on the latest updates and changes.

Now you don’t have to wade through a load of SVN update comments to find out if there have been any major changes to the Great White branch or the Effects branch of Papervision. Hopefully the day will come when the two are completely merged as one.