ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

15. Using Third-Party Libraries to Extend ActionScript

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

• Download and install third-party ActionScript libraries.

• Use Papervision3D to add 3D capabilities to ActionScript and Flash CS5.

• Create a 3D scene with Papervision3D and add 3D objects to it.

• Add bitmaps, movie clips, and video as surface materials to 3D objects.

• Use Papervision3D methods to render a 3D scene.

• Control the movement of a 3D object with the mouse and keyboard.

• Use the Caurina Transitions library to add tweens to 3D objects.

• Use the NetConnection, NetStream, and Video classes to control video entirely with ActionScript.

This lesson will take approximately 3.5 hours.

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