'Papervision3D Essentials', by Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder, from
Packt Publishing, ISBN 9781847195722. Also availble from Amazon,
probably should have been titled The Missing Manual if that hadn't
already been taken. Interesting that it took two Dutchmen to come up
with a book published in England, indicative PPV3D's international
activity.

Jeff's blog is at www.jeffwinder.nl ; Paul's blog is at www.paultondeur.com

Here's my Amazon review.

chuckb

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The Beginning Of Making Sense Of It All

Learning how to use 3D in Flash and Flex can be daunting. The open
source Papervision3D offers the potential of accomplishing some great
things, quickly and easily, but the learning curve is steep, involving
a lot of trials and, usually, more than a few errors. As with many
such things, Papervision3D is a marvel from a development community
whose technical strengths are not matched by any clear writing
ability. Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder have addressed this with their
recently released Papervision3D Essentials, from Packt Publications.
The first such work in lucid English, its 394 pages are organized in
thirteen well written chapters, starting with the basics and
progressively broadening the foundations in related aspects, such as
shading and modeling. Included here and there, almost causally, are
productivity enhancing tips and tricks that many seasoned and
experienced Flash/Flex many not know exist. Chapter One has to be
particularly commended, which plainly, clearly and simply details the
steps to setup the Papervision3D environments for Flash, Flash Builder
and Flex Builder, and includes a test program that helps validate the
setup. Each chapter has detailed example project code, again for both
Flash and Flex Builder. The examples are written in Action Script 3;
those still using AS2 may have some problems in getting up to speed.
This is an excellent starter book for learning how to use
Papervision3D, with the examples and discussions left to expand into
more complex and interactive development by the reader. Highly
recommended.