Seb Lee-Delisle

Finally you don’t have to make the trek across the pond to experience that rather wonderful British delight, Flash on the Beach.

And this time you don’t have to put up with the Brighton weather, unforgiving exchange rates, or jet lag. The american reversioning of this conference is doing it in style. In Miami beach!

The usual flash geniuses will be in attendance, including Andre Michelle, Mario Klingemann, Grant Skinner, Brendan Dawes, Craig Swann, Robert Hodgin, and also fellow Papervision team members Carlos Ulloa and Ralph Hauwert. Amongst others!

Flash on the Beach is the only conference I know of that has completely sold out some time before the event. So I would get your tickets as soon as you can. And they’re on super early bird prices right now - $299!

I’ll be there too, helping you with my beginners’ Papervision session. I’m actually getting married 2 weeks before! I guess it’ll be a honeymoon in Miami then…

We’re all really thrilled that Papervision has been awarded the .net magazine’s innovation award, beating SilverLight, the BBC iPlayer and Google Android! Full story here on the Papervision blog.

Here’s a handy little class that will make a smooth 3D circle out of curved lines in Papervision3D. Add an nice little sine wave movement curve and you have this! Click on the image to see it in action.

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I don’t know about you guys, but at the moment I’m getting several calls a day asking for Flash Christmas cards. And what do you need in a Flash Christmas card? Christmas snow! Remember last year I completed the 3D-Flash-snow-in-15-minutes challenge at FlashBrighton’s Big Day Out? Well this year I thought I’d do the same thing with Papervision; now you can add snow to your own 3D scenes!

Snowstorm is a DisplayObject3D so you just add it to your scene. And there’s also a Snowflake.as file too.

new SnowStorm( quantity:int=200, flakeSize:Number=32, cubesize : Number = 400);

It basically makes a big cube full of snow flakes! The parameters should be fairly self explanatory.

Download the source here.