Papervision 2.0: Preparing Your Tools

Introductory Papervision 2.0 tutorial which shows you where to find required tools and how to install them. First of all you need to get an integrated development environment. There are various IDEs available. The most widely used IDE for developing Papervision is Adobe Flex 2. You can get a 30-day free trial of Flex, or you can buy it. The downside of this is that it’s expensive.

There is a free alternative if you are running Windows. People at FlashDevelop have created a completley free IDE which coupled with the Flex 2 SDK, can be used as a completley free alternative to Adobe Flex. I’ll walk through the steps to install FlashDevelop below.

The article also informs about some useful links for those who use Mac OSX.