I’ve recently converted my old model viewer to away3D (it was using papervision3D).
molehill model viewer
This is the version which automatically loads well-known papervision3d x-wing model:
molehill papervision3D X-Wing
This is the version automatically loads a face generated with 3Doodler ( :P ), looks nice with subsurface scatterin 3Doodler face
(if you don’t see anything, you probably should have installed Flash Player version 11+)
ModelViewer supports OBJ, 3DS, Collada, MD5, MD2, blah blah blah…
Since Away3D Broomstick is in alpha stage, my viewer is alpha too. It supports Collada objects (DAE and ZIP files) because I had to write DisplayObject3D – to – ObjectContainer3D converter: “PaperAway”
Usage:
var mesh:Mesh = PaperAway.fromDo3D( displayObject3D );
That’s all :P Well, there are some additional options, but I won’t describe them here, read the code yourself…
Some strange things I’ve noticed in molehill’s/away3d’s coordinate system – uv coords are assigned to vertex indices, not face indices. This forces you to do either of two things:
– make too many vertices, one vertex per face vertex
– check for vertex UV coords and create new vertex only if the uv coord of given vertex is unique. This is confusing explanation, you can check it in the source code for PaperAway.as , starting from line 242.
Class PaperAway is not fully featured, it does not create materials according to Papervision3D’s shadedMaterials. Also it does not transfer interactive events of displayObject3D.
These are the issues with Away3D which I’ve spotted so far (some descriptions are very sketchy, sorry):
-material.dispose() generates null exceptions
-model.clone is erroneous because SubMesh system is not fully implemented
-model.dispose() is kinda erroneous too
-submeshes materials does not resemble corresponding scenegraph meshes materials.
-parser of OBJ files – OBJParser – falls into infinite loop when supplied OBJ file has materials defined, by the material file does not exist. In errorMtl() function writing after the trace command “_mtlLib = false” solves the issue.
-there are some problems with updating textures. You can see them by clicking on wireframe and then on “normal” – texture’s not getting updated.