A while back I took part in a project with The PPC to build a ‘different’ microsite for the (then) new film Avatar. I don’t know what happened to this project, I spent a good while optimising and refactoring to get it running really smoothly but then I got paid and I didn’t hear anything else. It seems that it may not have gone out in time, which is a really shame cos it’s awesome! Anyway, have a look, tell me what you think.
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Posts Tagged “papervision”
Say Hello To The Avatar Interactive Trailer
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Using The YouTube Player In 3D
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Yep, I’ve cracked it. Well, sort of.
You see, I’ve written a few posts about trying to get the YouTube player and interactivity to behave with Papervision3D. The issue was that Papervision3D (and other 3D engines) render the planes/materials/objects as bitmaps and you can’t render the YouTube player as a bitmap.
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Papervision3D And The YouTube Player: Just Hack It
Friday, August 28th, 2009So after much attempts it seems the best way to get the YouTube player to play nicely with Papervision3D (and the other way too) is just to fake it!!
I basically create a “fake player” and use that in the plane, and then when the user has clicked on the plane, I overlay the player on top. I can’t wait for native 3D on FP10 to become more wide spread!
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Messing With Papervision3D and Material/Plane Interactivity
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Update: I’ve hacked PV3D to get it to work with YouTube.
Right, after much browsing through the Papervision3D code, I’ve found out something very interesting: Papervision3D renders hit test, on every frame, on objects that request the mouse, that means those with event listeners.
So, going back to my original issue of getting the YouTube player to function with Papervision3D, I created some tests to see exactly what Papervision3D was doing, and how I could maybe adjust the code so it can work for me.
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Papervision3D MovieMaterial: To Hack Or Not To Hack?
Friday, August 21st, 2009Another update: I’ve hacked PV3D to get it to work with YouTube.
Update: I’ve had a play with PV3D and this is what I found out.
Recently I’ve been helping an agency with the YouTube Player API and Papervision3D. They’re after placing a YouTube player on a plane and it being interactive.
The main problem seems to be that:
- In order to add an object on to a plane it needs to be a material
- When an object is converted into a material, whether it’s a “MovieMaterial()” or not, it subclasses the “BitmapMaterial()” class, thus making it un-interactive (as essentially it’s a flattened bitmap)
So what to do…
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YouTube 3D Carousel
Monday, May 11th, 2009Recently while working at Google I’ve been asked to built some YouTube products, essentially brand channel gadgets built on the Google Gadgets API. YouTube has two main gadgets that they sell:
- YouTube Full-width Carousel
This is a simple carousel that allows the user to shuffle through some YouTube videos. It can work with both the GData API (so playlists, search and so on) and the YouTube Contest API (it’s a “closed” format at the moment, so information is only available on a “need to know” basis). It’s not the prettiest thing and there are a few things I don’t really like about it. But it works and that’s the main thing. You can see an example on the YouTube Live Channel. - YouTube Full-width and Normal-width Contest
YouTube contests are a great way to engage the YouTube and web community. They provide a simple interface and API that allows you to register votes and views for certain videos. Good examples of this are the Davos Debates, Sprite’s Green Eyed World (although the developers missed a tricked and used Facebook comments rather than YouTube’s). You’ll notice that both the contest examples have custom gadgets rather than YouTube’s product. A good use of YouTube’s contest gadget would be the recent Barclaycard Create compeition. It’s a nice format, but again, the aesthetics of the template let it down and a lot can be done to improve and make it look and work much better.
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