2. Getting the source

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on January 17, 2008

Welcome to tutorial number 2. This will walk you through the steps to get the Papervision 2.0a Source code.

** EDIT 10th September 2008 **

The SVN has changed recently, for now you can download the source by clicking here: http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/files/Papervision3D_2.0_beta_1_src.zip

Getting TortoiseSVN

Firstly you’ll need to install a Subversion client. The best and fastest that I’ve found is TortoiseSVN. Download it from this downloads page (You’ll probably want the 32 bit msi, you’ll know if you want the 64 bit one):
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads

Installation is pretty simple, just run the msi file and follow the steps.

Getting GreatWhite using TortoiseSVN

1) Create a new folder, somewhere easy to remember. I created mine at “C:\Greatwhite\“.
2) Navigate into the folder and right-click. From the context menu, click SVN Checkout.

3) In the “URL of Repository” textbox, enter the following URL:

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/GreatWhite/src

4) Click Ok. The source files for Papervision 3d 2.0a will be downloaded into the folder that you selected. Depending on your connection speed, this will take on average 1 minute.

You now have the Papervision 3d 2.0a Source code.

39 Responses to “2. Getting the source”

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1 pixelvoodoo
February 15, 2008 at 4:09 pm

where do I get the PaperBase.as file? help!!
2 Alek
February 20, 2008 at 6:33 pm

@pixelvoodoo: you will get it in the 3rd tutorial on this site

Alek
3 craiggrummitt
February 27, 2008 at 1:07 am

Great tutorials, thankyou.

a question on versions though - this source doesn’t seem to be the same as the source i initially downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/ or the documentation at http://www.papervision3d.org/docs/as3/. are these tutorials based on an earlier version of papervision classes? if so is there an api reference for this version?
4 whodini
February 27, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Man does anyone know where I can find a tutorial like this, only for OS X. I’ve downloaded a SVN thingy for mac yet I do not get a right click option like the one above. I feel that I could get further by banging my head against a wall repeatedly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
5 lnoel
February 27, 2008 at 9:23 pm

whodini- I feel ya! Did you look at the book? I still can’t figure out what version I am supposed to be running of the SVNx. Let me know if you find anything!!!
Sometimes, being mac based…. sucks.
laurenperrine@gmail.com
6 Luke
February 27, 2008 at 9:29 pm

Hi Whodini and Inoel,

Here, I’ve uploaded the entire src directory from the repo to my site, zipped and rared because I’m not sure if Mac’s can use Zips??

http://papervision2.com/wp-content/src.zip
http://papervision2.com/wp-content/src.rar

I hope this helps you out, at least you’ll have the source now

-Luke
7 craiggrummitt
March 2, 2008 at 10:12 pm

any comments on my questions above?
8 Michael
March 4, 2008 at 4:55 pm

TIP FOR MAC SVN:
Its not easy to find out how to use SVN on mac if you are not into using the command line (like me!) so I thought I would save some of you time with my findings.

Option 1:

svnX 09.13 - Free not so slick
Leopard users (10.5) have already got subversion installed so all the hard work is done.
Download svnX from its homepage or

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/svnx.html

Leopard users beware - when you start svnX for the first time you will be warned the path to the svn binary is wrong but dont panic.
Choose the open preferences button and change the path to

/usr/bin

this is the path OS X 10.5 uses. Now you should be able to log on to the papervision svn by adding

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ as a path in the ‘Repositories’ window.

Double click the added respoitory and away you go. A new window opens to show you all the folders you can download - just drag and drop to your desktop or a folder.

Option 2:

syncroSVNClient - slick and easy but not free

Download from

http://www.syncrosvnclient.com

Follow their instructions and all will be revealed.

Hope this helps all my fellow mac users who suffer lack of SVN tutorials

- Micheal
9 craiggrummitt
March 12, 2008 at 10:06 pm

anyone?
10 craiggrummitt
March 19, 2008 at 12:44 am

have continued discussion of my above question to the forums - titled ‘version query’.
11 Bryce
March 26, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Luke,
I have the same question as craiggrummitt. Which source should I be using? What is great white? Are there two different versions of the pv3d source?

thanks,
Bryce
12 Bryce
March 26, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Mac SVN users:

Another option not listed by Michael, is that if you are using Flex, you can use the subclipse plugin for the Flex IDE. It has a bit of a learning curve, but I use it and like it.

installation instructions here: http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html

–Bryce
13 Bryce
March 26, 2008 at 3:54 pm

I’m retarded. I just noticed this:

Comment by craiggrummitt on March 19, 2008 12:44 am
have continued discussion of my above question to the forums - titled ‘version query’.

So I found the answer in the forums. Happy coding!
14 Ying
March 27, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Have someone encountered the following error:
Checkout from http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/GreatWhite/src, revision HEAD, Fully recursive, Externals included

OPTIONS of
‘http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/GreatWhite/src’: could
not connect to server (http://papervision3d.googlecode.com)

I have installed TortoiseSVN-1.5.0.12411-win32-svn-1.5.0-beta1.msi. I don’t know which option I need to set correctly. Please help

Thanks in advance

Ying
15 Fran
April 29, 2008 at 1:32 am

Hmmm, forums don’t seem to be working, is there a link to the ‘version query’ info?
16 Wall
May 15, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Luke….you save my day!!! \o/
I simply don´t find Papervision 2.0 to download like this. And i use in the job, so i can´t install these SVC downloader programs.

Thanks o/

and sorry for my english! =P
17 Beau
May 16, 2008 at 3:40 pm

How does this differ from simply downloading the files? Why would I need SVN?
18 Paul Andrews
June 8, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Hmm. So far every revision of great white I’ve downloaded has failed to compile. I’ve tried taking the zip file made available by luke, but I am getting an error on Vertices3D - line 194 - Error 100 ambiguous reference to Vertex3D. On other attempts I’ve had problems with override function and TriangleMesh.

I’m using flash CS3. Any ideas why I’m having a problem, but nobody else is?

Paul
19 Paul Andrews
June 9, 2008 at 1:55 am

Solved.

I had PV3D 1.5 in my classpath..

Doh!

Paul
20 Phil Robertson
June 9, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Thanks Luke - sometimes you just cant get SVN going on mac. Nice One!
21 Patrick Brock
June 11, 2008 at 4:04 pm

I kindof the same problem as Paul Andrews(above)….with a twist.

I am going through the cube tutorial on http://www.gotoandlearn.com and i am getting that same error. However when I open up and publish the Mouse3d file that comes in examples folder of the download, I dont get that error.

I have checked out my import statements and they are exactly the same in both files. Do any of you know what I could be doing wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.
22 Patrick Brock
June 11, 2008 at 5:58 pm

Well…I think I just learned something. I had the proper classpath setup in the Edit-Preferences-ActionScript-ActionScript3.0 settings box but I had the wrong one set up in the publish settings-Actionscript version-settings box.

Am i correct in that the publish settings overrides the edit preferences settings?

Dont know if anyone had the same problem, if so, you may want to check both places.
23 Matt McGuire
June 17, 2008 at 10:39 am

I downloaded the latest papervision via SVN - but like many other people found that it doesn’t include many classes such as the whole view sub-folder?
Why not? - did I misunderstand how to get the latest files via SVN

I’ve since downloaded luke’s zip file; and I’ve now got these missing files, but now I’m also getting the:
Vertices3D - line 194 - Error 100 ambiguous reference to Vertex3D
error that a few others have also got.

Anybody got a solution yet?
24 Matt McGuire
June 17, 2008 at 10:42 am

Ah - my fault.

I just noticed that there is a different SVN repository used on this site, not mentioned on the actual papervision site.

Going to download again, but I suspect it won’t fix the Vertex3D problem.
25 Matt McGuire
June 17, 2008 at 10:49 am

Final post

Downloading the source files from the repository at the top of this page [and obviously updating your classpath's if necessary] fixes all the problems I was experiencing.
26 Piet
July 6, 2008 at 1:29 am

Thank you very much for placing this tutorial online! i was searching my ass off for 2.0 but only found 1.5 and the whole idea of that svn program was not clear for me since I never heard of something like that. In fact I still cant get it why they cannot just place a download link but need a special program only for downloading.. But well it seem to work so then i’m totally fine with it.
27 john
September 9, 2008 at 2:26 pm

i can’t find great white any where …it looks like it’s not on google code anymore…can any one help?
28 NaRanJiTo
September 10, 2008 at 9:20 am

When I put http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/GreatWhite/src then be a error(does not exist that path),what can happen?
29 kevin
September 12, 2008 at 2:18 pm

I got follow error message
http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/GreatWhite/src
doesn;t exit.
Anyone know how to fix it

thanks kevin
30 St@n
September 20, 2008 at 10:21 pm

Use this url:
http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/as3/trunk/src/
31 Kurt
September 27, 2008 at 10:45 am

This might be the same?

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/cs4/src/
32 Sinisa Spasojevic
October 3, 2008 at 7:29 am

pv3d2 is great, but has a lot of space for improvements, especially project-specific.. like creating altered render pipeline for specific case scenario, to improve performance.

here are some research & dev projects where we’ve added per-object filter effects:

http://www.visionmaxstudio.com/temp/human/
http://www.visionmaxstudio.com/temp/studio/

useful in projects where objects do not intersect, for example create depth-of-field illusion.
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October 13, 2008 at 4:02 am

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34 Leif
October 17, 2008 at 4:30 pm

You can still use Tortoise SVN to get the latest PV3D source code.

In Step 3) above, use this as your SVN URL:
http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/as3/trunk/src

Luke..thanks for your great tutorials!
35 tips
October 22, 2008 at 3:51 am

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October 24, 2008 at 3:55 am

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37 dim
November 7, 2008 at 11:29 pm

For cs4 version…copy & paste the below url

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/cs4/src/
38 Jithin Rao
January 10, 2009 at 6:55 am

I downloaded thru Tortoise SVN from the folder http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/as3/trunk

well,it doesn’t have the exact folder structure as shown in the image ???? I am getting a updated one???
39 QuickAngel
April 6, 2009 at 8:44 am

Hey guys i could not load the provided URL got a 404 so i figured i woukd post the one that worked for me.

http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/