FlashDevelop Molehill Away3D
Adobe just released the preview versions of Flash Player Incubator which support low level 3D API codenamed Molehill several days ago. After a bit of google, I managed to setup FlashDevelop to publish Molehill content. Below are the brief steps on how to setup everything.
Adobe just released Flash Player 11 beta 2 earlier this month and their “Molehill” 3D API is now known as “Stage 3D“. This blog entry is not applicable now, so please refer to my new blog entry about this topic FlashDevelop Stage3D Away3D.
Install Flash Player Incubator
To view Flash Molehill content, you will need to install the alpha version of new flash player.
Setup FlashDevelop with Flex Hero Framework and Away3D
To publish Flash Molehill content, you will need the new Flex Hero SDK. In my case, I will be using FlashDevelop and Away3D.
- Copy playerglobal.swc to [Flex Hero SDK Path]frameworks\libs\player\10.1. You will need to create the 10.1 folder
- Launch FlashDevelop and start a new AS3 Project. You can set your project folder to Away3D examples, if you downloaded them.
- Go to Tools>Program Settings>AS3 Context>Flex SDK Location. Fill in the location where you extract Flex Hero SDK.
- Go to Project>Properties>Class Paths. Click Add Class Path and browse to the location where you extract Away3D 4.
- Go to Project>Properties>Output>Platform. Change Target to Flash Player 10.1.
- Go to Project>Properties>Output>Test Movie. Select Open document from dropdown list. Click Edit button and type in FlashDevelop output location, usually bin\index.html
- Go to Project>Properties>Compiler Options>Additional Compiler Options. Key in -swf-version=13
- Add wmode: “direct” parameter for swfobject in the output HTML which usually at [Project Path]bin\index.html. Software fallback will be used if you do not include this parameter.
- Done. Right click on any of Away3D example source files which can be found at [Project Path]src, choose Always compile and GO!
Problem?
- If you get error message like Type was not found or Call to a possibly undefined method. In FlashDevelop, open the libs folder in the project file list, right click and select Add To Library for both lib_simplegui.swc and MinimalComps_0_9_9.swc
- If you get an error about LZMA Decoder, download it here. Then extract it to [Project Path]libs. In FlashDevelop, select apparat-lzma-decoder-1.0-RC9.swc in the project file list, right click and select Add To Library.
- If you cant view the MD5 and MD2 examples, most probably the assets path is wrong. Just copy the assets folder from [Project Path]srcassets to [Project Path]bin
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Hi! Finnaly I made everything you wrote and there were no errors but I still can’t SEE any example! All I have is empty web pages and empty SWF files. (I use Flex 4.5.1.21328)
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Works perfect! thanks!
One question tho: my debugger in flashdevelop seems not to be responding to breakpoints anymore.. any clue how that might be related?
there’s some prob with my flash player, my web browser is telling me to instal flash player even though i have it!!!
I compiled it fine just to see it shows alternative content instead of the .swf file
How to fix that?
Btw, you could just drop playerglobal in project folder, right-click it and “add to library”, then right-click again and set it as external in “options”. This way you dont have to overwrite anything in SDK.
Thanks for the great tutorial!!
regards,
luk
Excellent article- I couldn’t have got it working without it. One question I have is if you have been able to get the debbugging working in FlashDevelop? Specifically I am trying to use breakpoints to watch the function call stack but I don’t get anything showing in the stack window. You have any advice?
if someone cant get working flash app in browser after Text movie, go here http://itblogs.pl/programowanieflash/ and download zip at below (DOWNLOAD). Extract it in project bin folder replace files and edit index.html, change CONFIG.swf on yours output file name save it and enjoy
works smoothly 
Great resource! Made it so easy to get up and running. I was pulling my hair out with all this pre-release stuff. Thanks!
Seems to work well,
great tutorial,
thank you
Followed the tut and went over it again when I got a command line error.
the call was
mxmlc -load-config+=obj\MolehillEgConfig.xml -debug=true -incremental=true -benchmark=false -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true -swf-version=13 -o obj\MolehillEg634373620504375000
and the error reads –
command line: Error: unknown configuration variable ‘swf-version’
Use ‘mxmlc -help’ for information about using the command line.
Build halted with errors (fcsh).
any Ideas?
@Ozgur
Make sure that you downloaded the correct SDK build (4.5.0.19786). I had the same error until I realized that I had downloaded the wrong one.
Thx, mclelun, just managed to fix that silly misconfig …
Specify that in this step of the tutorial :
Go to Project>Properties>Class Paths. Click Add Class Path and browse to the location where you extract Away3D 4.
You MUST select the /src folder, not the place where you extracted Away3D 4
I hope that helps to those that have about 70 erros in a file for the first compile!!
Ah, also when you “Run” an example, if it just don’t do, get the SWF on Examples_4_0_0_broomstick and just drag’n'drop in mozilla 4
Great tutorial!
@Arkanoid
The error mean that you are missing the away3d 4 library.
Go to Project>Properties>Class Paths. Click Add Class Path and browse to the location where you extract Away3D 4.
if i get lots of those:
C:\Users\vicioso\Desktop\Desarrollo\examples_4_0_0_broomstick\src\AnimatedBitmapMaterialTest.as(29): col: 23 Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: View3D.
private var _view : View3D;
^
C:\Users\vicioso\Desktop\Desarrollo\examples_4_0_0_broomstick\src\AnimatedBitmapMaterialTest.as(30): col: 22 Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: ObjectContainer3D.
private var _ctr : ObjectContainer3D;
^
¿¿What the hell is misconfigured??
Just followed your guide step by step ..
The first one in the problems section don’t fixed that..
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! Getting my hands dirty now..
@Ozgur
Make sure it is -swf-version=13, not swf-version
@Rea
The error mean that there are missing library/framework which is not included in your project class path.
Still getting Type was not found errors after doing everything in this blog. Specifically in all examples I’ve tried so far from the Away3D 4.0 broomstick examples.
command line: Error: unknown configuration variable ‘swf-version’
Use ‘mxmlc -help’ for information about using the command line.
Build halted with errors (fcsh).