Flex Builder, Papervision and GTween – great way to get the ball rolling again

Greetings all, still haven’t fixed the PC, and no plans in buying a new one. But, being forced to use a Macbook with no games installed(damn DotA) and a slow connection, I managed to find some time to get back into Flash and ActionScript.

I finally figured out how to setup external class libraries in FlexBuilder, which took longer than I would have hoped. Now I can use Papervision3D, Away3D and have a central library for all other API’s and classes.  It’s not as enjoyable as FlashDevelop, but, it’s better than nothing.

I also started playing with PV3D, which is just awesome. Very fun to play around with, and I can’t wait to make something I could use for my eternally work-in-progress site.

And finally, there’s a new tweening engine on the block. It’s called gTween and it’s made by Grant Skinner, so you know it’s great. Like TweenLite, it aims for speed and it’s also very lightweight. It’s still in beta, and not as powerful and feature-packed as TweenMax or other tweening engines. I haven’t tested it enough to choose it over TweenLite yet, but, I like it’s different approach to creating and managing (yep, you could manage, edit, reuse and even nest) tweens. Check it out here.

And, yeah, I would post my little “experiment” with Papervision, but I can’t seem to extract/find the swf file. I even tried using the .as file as a Document class to a Flash file, but I still can’t double-click and play the movie.

I am also having trouble with FlexBuilder, whenever I Run/Play button to test a project, it often doesn’t show anything until several retries or not at all, but using the .as file as a Doc class to a Flash file, it plays fine. Any help would be very much appreciated.

R.I.P.

My PC died earlier this week. It took with it all my files and experiments, but no worries, I have uploaded some of them here and I already learned from all of them. I also don’t have the latest files for my website now (which is getting cold), so I guess I should just start a new one. But, the worst part is, I only have a Mac to work on now, which doesn’t have FlashDevelop . I either have to try to work on FlexBuilder or just be idle for a few days (or weeks!) until I fix my PC or maybe get a new one *sigh*.