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When I just got my first car, It felt like I was set free – I could go wherever I want, whenever I want.. few years later I got a similar feeling when as a graphic design student I bought my first Mac – suddenly I could do everything (well, almost) on my own, in my own time.As a teenager I didn’t know how polluting my first car really was, just as I did not notice (up until recently) that Apple are ranked somewhere in the bottom of the Greenpeace green mobile and PC manufacturers line up.Hey, Apple, you can not allow this to your self, this is something that counts for your target audience, being different has to be better.

Few days ago John Grden released Papervision3D Component for Flash CS3.I wanted to try Papervision3D (actionscript 3D engine, check this out!) for some time now, and didnt have the time, with this cool shortcut I simply couldn’t resist..This component adds a panel for controlling properties of ‘Papervision3D COLLADA Scene’ component, properties such as the Source 3D file (collada = .dae), Camera settings and Model rotation or scale. The component also enable design-time rendering in Flash IDE, which is great! Flash and 3D are combined, in one native IDE. cool times.
check this vid out: (Sorry, the vid is no longer available)
Beside Flash components sweetness I still need the 3D modeling to be done on my Mac, I am not fluent in the 3D modeling world, but Blender is free and easily imports and exports Collada files, I guess it can give answer to my simple demands..