dOMi Preview - its Papervision, punk

Posted on , June 08, 2008 @ 14:49 CET

The past couple of days I've had alot of fun putting together a preview site for my buddy's band dOMi. They have a full-length album coming out at the end of August and we plan on building a web presence that is on par with the music, but until then we agreed that the plain ol' HTML page that was in place should be replaced.

Playing with Papervision has been on my to-do list for a long time (if you're going to the Papervision workshop at FOTB I'll see you there :) so I checked out the Great White branch (version 2.0 in alpha) because I figured why not play with the bleeding edge, I'm pretty sure my vaccines are up to date.

I know next to nothing when it comes to 3D modelling so we just tried to play with some basic primitives and see if we couldn't come up with something. The first attempt at something was this spinning plane with just the cover. Its ok, but we wanted more so we mapped the Photoshop comps of the cover onto a cube and moved things around a little bit to make a fluid layout that would scale nicely on a larger monitor but still look OK on 800x600. I quickly learned that Flex and its layout schemes had spoiled me. Then we found a way to make certain parts of the back cover be clickable with this great hack, in order to allow people to play the pre-release tracks from the track list itself.

Lastly was figuring out how to do a preloader in a pure AS3 project in FlexBuider, but thankfully and as always Keith Peters had a post that shows you exactly how do it. And just for me, arrow key listeners to make that sucka spin just because it can! :)

Anyways, tada! The dOMi preview site for Welcome to Annoying Town, out August 29th! Come to the show at John Dee!

- paulo

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