Overview
This two day course will cover essential 3D Flash techniques for the Developer and/or Designer with some coding skills. Featuring the latest Papervision3D and Away3D engines, the course will focus on how best to use the API’s in any given situation, tackling basic issues that arise such as asset loading, scene arrangement, interaction, optimising for speed, effective use of 3D and how it can be integrated into traditional 2D Flash content.

Presented by Rob Bateman

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Schedule

Day 1:

1. Introduction
- The limitations of a software renderer
- Available frameworks
- Setting up your development environment

2. 3D Basics
- The cartesian coordinate system
- Defining the scene and the view
- Manipulating visual elements
- Texture mapping

3. Importing 3D models
- Preparing a model
- Usable formats
- Online resources

4. Mixing 2D with 3D
- Inline MovieClip rendering
- Billboards
- Animated textures

Day 2:

5. Interacting with a scene
- Mouse interaction on 3D objects
- Mouse interaction on textures

6. Optimising the view
- Distortion correcting on textures
- Triangle culling
- Corrective z-sorting

7. Lighting
- Manipulating lights
- Flat color shading
- Gouraud shading

8. Special effects
- Transforming and layering textures
- Using Flash filters on 3D objects

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Costs
- The cost of this 2 days training is £200 + VAT (£235).
- This includes lunch and tea/coffees throughout the day.

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Requirements
- All attendees will require their own laptops.
- All laptops will need to have a copy of Flash CS3 installed.
- All laptops will also need to have a copy of Flex Builder or FDT 3.0 installed for editing ActionScript 3.0.
- All attendees will require some prior experience working with ActionScript 3.0.

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When/Where
Date: 9th-10th April 2008 ( 09/04/2008 – 10/04/2008 )
Time: 10:00 – 18:00 (doors open at 09:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican

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Booking
- To book a place on this course please contact training AT lfpug.com.
- 2 places left (places are reserved for 15 attendees maximum).

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More info on our training philosophy can be found here

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