[osflash] papervision for the "layman"

[Evan E]

Dear papervision community,

Papervision seems stupendous and amazing!  Kudos to the genius of her 
creator.

I have been attempting to follow the tutorials online as well as the 
papervision docs and even attended the June 15th open conference 
presentation on Papervision.

Unfortunately, I am still struggling as even when I implement tutorial 
solutions line for line I am getting errors in return.  In one scenario, I 
had to replace an updated version of the geometryObject3D with an old, 
outdated version of that class to get a tutorial to work.  In another, I am 
getting errors with the updated version of the Mesh3D class.

And the particulars of textures and Collada in actionscript 3 are still 
unclear to me.  Can I add my own photo textures to a Collada file 
independent of the ones exported by say, Studio Max in the dae file? Am I 
bound to the material name derived in Max?

I know the Collada component is coming but is there any chance a new 
papervision tutorial for the Adobe Flash CS3 environment in even simpler to 
undertand terms is out there?  I want to blow away my aquaintance who swears 
by Silverlight.

kind regards,

Evan