I also updated the smoke Particle System that will help you understand how PaperVision3D delivers interactivity with screen objects and the mouse. You can get a better understanding of the conversion to PV3D in the tutorial above and know more about setting up projects in PV3D here.
As usual, you can grab the sources below:
I understand that PaperVision natively provides a ParticleSystem and there have been other Particle System code snippets lurking around the internet, but for people, who have been following my particle system tutorials, I’m going to tell you how to convert the same particle system into 3D using PaperVision3D. Here’s how it looks in PaperVision3D; you can use the mouse and the arrow keys to move the camera around:
Code rundown:
If you want to understand the code in the sources below, you can go through the tutorial, I posted about setting up projects in PV3D. The biggest change is to remove the particlesystem class and reduce the Parent Child Hierarchy. I have moved the ParticleSystem class into the main section of our project, such that all particles become direct children of the scene. This reduces the need to have a DisplayObject3D Container. It also helps in managing the particles easily.
You can grab the sources below and don’t forget to leave me some feedback 
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UPDATE 2: I have released a complete working port of Opensteer for ActionScript 3. Please see this post.
Update: Although I have updated the sources in this post. OpenSteer for AS3 is now AS3Steer. Please follow this post.
If you have been following my obsession with emergent behavior and autonomous objects, I have been crazy making demos out of it. I recently struck an idea and thought about porting the excellent OpenSteer Library by Craig Reynolds. You can find its homepage here and download it as well. You can grab the sources below. I’ll be working on a demo to show how to use it in the near future. Please report any bugs or queries, if you have any. I’ll be happy to look it out.
Mohammad Haseeb is a Programmer and Designer with interests in the Visual Paradigm.
