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i couldn’t find the application/Main class after i download from SVN
then i try to import the project, it replies that the unzipped folder i select is not an Flex project.
I guess it is becz of missing “/.settings folder and .project and .actionScriptProperties files”

I can’t make the Vector class works

Though I’m using Flash cs4 IDE and FlashDevelop, both compiling for flashplayer 10 but I can only use you older version with Array in place of Vectors.

I’m running out of idea

Thanks for the great work ericsoco ,
it can now import into the Flex Bulider 3,
But when i try to compile , it seems not recognized the ” ” identified after the “Vector.”
and give errors
” 1084: Syntax error: expecting identifier before lessthan. FLARManager/src FLARManagerExample_PV3D.as at line 33 , 36, 40 ,29 & 39″

I am using AS3 , is there any sort of plugin that i will need to install ?

Thanks !

hello ericscoco, thx for your help, i have update my Flext Builder to V3.02 and SDK to 3.2
i also add the new playerglobal.swc for player 10, however,

When i try to run the application
it gave the following errors

************************************************************************************
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.transmote.flar.source::FLARCameraSource/init()[C:\Documents and Settings\Rafale\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\FLARManager\src\com\transmote\flar\source\FLARCameraSource.as:108]
at com.transmote.flar.source::FLARCameraSource()[C:\Documents and Settings\Rafale\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\FLARManager\src\com\transmote\flar\source\FLARCameraSource.as:49]
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/createDefaultSource()[C:\Documents and Settings\Rafale\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\FLARManager\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:357]
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager()[C:\Documents and Settings\Rafale\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\FLARManager\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:84]
at FLARManagerExample_PV3D/init()[C:\Documents and Settings\Rafale\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\FLARManager\src\FLARManagerExample_PV3D.as:46]
at FLARManagerExample_PV3D()[C:\Documents and Settings\Rafale\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\FLARManager\src\FLARManagerExample_PV3D.as:34]

***********************************************************************************

it seems it is complaining about FLARCameraSource.as @ 108
Could it not able to locate my Web Cam?

Thanks man

I was also having the same issue as rcnow.

The problem is when the FLARCameraSource tries to auto select the built in USB camera, I’m using a PC so that might be an issue with that.

The solution:
In the FLARCameraSource class change the line (around line 108):

this.camera = Camera.getCamera(i.toString());

to:

this.camera = Camera.getCamera();


Hi eric, how´re you doing? I had to download the flex trial version, but i got the PV3D example working in my PC. By the way, thanks for the great work.

When i upload the swf and html to a server, and try to check it out in a navigator I get the following error:

Error: Error #2032: Error de secuencia. URL: ../resources/flar/FLARparams.dat
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/onCameraParamsLoadError()[C:\Documents and Settings\TOSHIBA\Escritorio\FLARManager\v03\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:324]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

I already had a security problem so i had to add the compiler argument “-use-network=false” …. now i don´t know what else to do. Thanks, man

@ericsoco – You should be able to dual license your work. Also have you modified in any way PV3D or FLARToolkit, if not I think it is a good idea to remove it from the repository, because it is a pain in the a** to download the svn, also having 10 times the repository of papervision3d for each deploy is not very nice for my filesystem (and me )

Cheers

Dear all,

I’m trying to replace the cubes in the PV3D example with several DAE models.

Does anyone have any experience with this and perhaps some sweet source?

@ericsoco – if you believe that you should distribute pv3d and flartoolkit with flarmanager maybe compile SWC files distribute those (not the whole tree).

About dual licensing – I’m not big expert but it is possible, there are many examples of software distributed under two.

@John – fire me a mail if you need help with flar

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I’ve got the manager working great!
Now I want to replace the cubes with movieclips, any tutorial on how to do this?
Would be superb!

Hmm, do not completely understand what you are saying there.
I wish I could just drop a mc in there, but that’s the problem, don’t know how to.
Can you modify the code for me, once I have that, I guess I will understand it way better.
Thanks

simular to this http://blog.flashmech.net/2008/04/skin-a-pv3d-cube-using-movieassetmaterial/, but i cannot find where to implement it in your simplecubes code, sorry for spamming, thanks in advance

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Hi I have imported the FlarManager in Flex 3.0 but I keep getting an annoying error.

Launch Failed!
File not Found: …… FlarManagerExample_2D.html.

Could you please help me out?

Cheers.

Thanks mate.

I have checked all the settings and it seems to match with what you have mentioned. I have the screen shot but i can’t attach it here. Everytime i try to run any of those .as file including FLARManagerExample_2D.as it gives me the above mentioned error.

I don’t understand why it’s not creating the HTML file. I have imported the project as per the guidelines.

Any possible pointers?

Cheers.

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This is useless, can’t compile in Flash IDE… what a waste of time

Hi!
it is great, there is a way to limit the quantitiy of detection by markers, i mean, if i put 2 same markers only one is detected. But i can put a lot of markers, but only one detection by marker at time.

Great, this is just what I’ve been looking for. Downloading now and going to experiment with it right away!

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this is a very stupid question but where is the marker you used with your examples? can i just replace a marker throwing a new .pat file in the flex builder?

And finally (and coming from a different way) if i work with visual papervision http://www.juxtinteractive.com/work/vizualpv3d/ can i just ake an animated scene, put it on scene and make it work?? are there any warnings about it?.

Greetings from the end of the world, you’re developing a hell of a work.

Greetings! First of all i want to say thanks, this work is amazing and im always excited to play around using it! Im currently building a game using the FlarManager to control the player as part of a 2nd year University project.

A problem I have however is that the games frame rate is really low, 12fps. Now i spent some time playing around with the source from Mikkos Blog and I was able to get an average frame rate of about 30 which i was really happy about.

Before i begin diving into the code to try and optimise some areas, is there anything you would reccomend to increase the performance? My game only requires a single marker so I imagine taking the multiple marker detection out might speed things up a little.

Anyways any guidance would be greatly appreciated and thanks again for your work so far.

i wish i could edit that…

[...] FLARManager is a small framework that makes building FLARToolkit applications easier. it also decouples the marker-tracking functionality from Papervision3D, and provides a more robust event-based system for managing marker addition, update, and removal. it supports detection and management of multiple patterns, and multiple markers of a given pattern. * FLARManager – http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/ [...]

hello, i’m a brazillian programmer, sorry in my bad english, but i have a questions for you…
can i build a project based on your project? what modeificates its necessary to put other object, i try but not work, and i don’t have any experience with papervision3d, can i put a object in other format? if yes how? plese help-me a have many interest in this but i dont understand a large of this language… and finally, can you respond this message for my e-mail too? thanks…

Maybe I’m blind but the v0.41 from the page link seems to be missing the flex .project files. Flex builder won’t recognize. Trying svn in the background as I right this.

Thx.

Nope, not in the SVN too, any pointers on how to import/create a new project in Flex builder with new FLARManager? Flex is making by brain hurt…

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hi, sry newb question: … when building the demo in flex builder 3 everything works out fine. now i want to put it on the website. i upload the complete content in the bin-release via ftp, and when i want to directly access the html file in my browser i get a: website could not be found (?)can someone please tell me what to do? it’s on the server, the ftp shows it but the firefor/ie does not open it … tnx for your feedback

THnkas for both : FlarManager and Johnny from Airplane

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It’s cool! Thanks!

but I have a (hypernoob) question for you…
when I try to download the files fron the repository url you gave (with tortoiseSVN)..well..
It required authentication.
What sould I do in order to obtain the right credentials to acces the files?

THANKS for your works it might be helpful and sorry for my poor english

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My comments seem to have vanished. ? I wondered if there was an example of simply recongnizing a marker and outputing x, y and rotation? No red outlines etc, just a simple trace?

Eric, thank you for this amazing tool! I will visit your page for tons of information.

Hello. I am confused by the amount of pager on this it seems!

I am still having a lot of trouble, when compiling I get this in the output:

Error: Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///C|/Users/larky/Desktop/flar2D/…/src/FLARCameraParams.xml
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/onFlarConfigLoadError()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

Sometimes it simply says ‘Error’.

And I get these compiler warnings:

Warning: 1090: Migration issue: The onMouseDown event handler is not triggered automatically by Flash Player at run time in ActionScript 3.0. You must first register this handler for the event using addEventListener ( ‘mouseDown’, callback_handler).

…for lines 208, 214, 218 and 224.

Everything is where it should be I think. Any help would be great.

Thank you.

William.

Update: I now get no stream error, I get 1090 Migration Errors still. I can only find answers relating to people using as2 instead of as3 code in an as3 fla, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t have done that! I’m stumped, everything looks correct. :s

HMM, ok, I think I fixed the migration issue by simply renaming onMouseDown etc by adding an underscore to the start of each one, onMouseDown etc are protected names under AS2 maybe? Not sure. Now it compiles with no errors at all, but doesn’t do anything! It runs, camera activates, hold up marker and it doesn’t see it, or doesn’t do anything with it. I have tried different makrers. Im getting closer

Ooh, I think I am close. it must now be seeing the markers as I get ‘Error’ in the outpt window when I hold one up. I hope my rambling is ok, maybe this can help people in some small way if they experience the same problems.

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Hi,
Good work! But the GNU/Linux version of Flex Builder have some build error that I don’t know how to fix them.

FLARManager.as :
private var _activeMarkers:Vector.;

// something about the syntax with the <

OS: Ubuntu 9.04
Flex Builder 3
Flash 9 & 10

I appreciate any feedback from anyone,
thank you.

–adi

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Excellent work so far on this. You did a great job on simplifying the AR process. I’m having some trouble getting this to run outside of the location where the project resides. For example, I build a project (import your example or build one myself) and can run it from Flex Builder properly. However, when I copy the directory (debu, release, or entire project) it no longer works from that location. There is only a blank window. I’ve developed several Flex applications in the past and can’t say I’ve seen this problem before. Any ideas? Thanks and keep up the great work.

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Hi Eric,

Thanks for providing us with this lovely wrapper [ and also, reminding me of one of my favourite gags from Airplane … I’m gonna build me a pterodactyl!!!!). I’m having a problem with webcam detection on my PC (am using a Logitech Quickcam) – which is detected as a Deskshare IP … but I get a blue screen I had a little hack around the FLARCameraSource class to see if I could resolve (didn’t get anywhere though) … but since I also have a Mac, I uploaded a test to http://www.spacemonki.com/fb4/FLAR001/ and whilst I get a blue screen on my PC, I have no probs on my Mac.

I’m now installing Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 (which is what I’ve been working with on PC) onto my Mac … and shall continue learning

What I’m trying to achieve is to demonstrate Augmented Reality as a way of doing True / False activities in eLearning. I develop eLearning models for law students … and I think Augmented Reality may offer a more engaging experience for say, trainee Solitictors, if they were given an envelope with a number of documents … lets say four, but only one has been correctly completed … their task is to identify the correct document … so what I could do, is have patterns on the reverse side of these legal documents … with each pattern triggering feedback video to appear telling them whether they selected the correct document, or why the document they selected was incorrect etc. Anyway, I just thought it was worth a little experimenting

Hey Eric – that’s worked an absolute treat So, in the spirit of Airplane Jive talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRDOp6zypbM ) … cheers for cutting me slack jack – Chump wan help, chump git help. Jive ass dude gotta check out da brains on bread.

Muchly appreciated … right, now what’s happening … first the Earth cooled, then came the dinosaurs, but they got too big and fat …….

Doh … spoke too soon – having only had joy with my iSight camera on the Mac earlier, thought all was fixed when the camera worked on my PC’s web cam. Works perfectly on my PC now, but no longer works on the Mac.

http://www.spacemonki.com/fb4/FLAR004/

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I was having that camera selection problem and the latest code from the DEV folder did fix it. Thanks! (Although it took me a while to figure out that the fix was in dev and not deploy.. )

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Hi, I’m using your tutorial located here:
http://transmote.com/codeshare/FLARManager/dev/src/examples/FLARManagerTutorial_3D.as

and it works fine except the cube doesn’t sit on the marker. It moves with the marker, but the position is sort of up and off to the side and gets further away and closer to marker depending on the marker’s position. I have a feeling it’s related to the cameraParams / distortion correction stuff, but I have everything as it should be in that regard (I think). Any ideas on this? I had it working fine with FLAR toolkit, but with FLAR Manager I get this new problem.
Thanks for your help.

There is a small bug in the library, when the user doesn’t have any camera connected, FlarManager give an unhandled error (at least in Flash CS4) because Camera.names is emtpy, while if the camera is in use by an other application, it dispatch the error correctly.
I fixed it, since I do need this check, with this code in FLARCameraSource/initCamera:

this check dispatch the error event
if(Camera.names.length == 0)

Just before this line because this one throw the unhandled error
var names:Array = Camera.names

http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/2035/93819285920297095591258335174JC3xQwpow0Wcu9QmU5RE.JPG

Hmm, this is what I got When i try to compile the classes!

10x, I will defenetly check the comments again.
I started to learn Augumented reallity about a week ago and I’m still a little bit confused about it. I got some expirience witg ppv3d, but still feel strange with AR. Can you recoomand me some book about AR in flash or non-japanese articles?

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Hi. I have a small problem.
When i`m tracking the marker`s angles like this -> Matrix3D.matrix2euler(this._baseNode.transform); (this._baseNode = FLARBaseNode) i`m getting wrong numbesr of XRotation. When the marker is faced to camera it`s ZERO or something below, when i turn it to the TOP it must be >0, if i turn it to the floor it must be <0. Yes, it is. But Number are not smoothly displayed, like 0,2,4,6,7,9,11…..they dislyed like 0,5,14,24,35,56, 23, 12, -23, -45. So the 3D object is jumping.

What am doing wrong. I`m using this camera – http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/webcameras/logitech-quickcam-s5500/, is it ok or not. May be i have not enough ligh, but seems ok, i`ve highlited the marker and still the same problem with jumping on XRotation.

Any ideas?

Even Math.atan2(this._resultMat.m20, this._resultMat.m22) jumping from 3 to -3.
Strange.

Sorry about that, thx for link, will post there.

Hi,i know it is possible to retrieve the rotations value (X,Y,Z) from a marker matrix but my object dont seems to have any rotation applied to it when i try to get those values..

I am testing one of your file (tutorial3D) but when i try to get the rotation value of the cubeContainer, it always return 0 event tough it is transformed by the marker matrix and following correctly the marker

thanks for any help

Thanks for the quick answer !
Weel it seems that i get wrong values…maybe i am doing something wrong but here is what i get…

Showing the pattern0 from the folder to the cam i get 180 as rotationZ…shouldn’t i get 0 since the marker is showed like he is in the jpeg…facing up

with that in mind..i get rotationX and rotationY mixed up (visually)

Do you know a way to retrieve rotation value from a matrix ? (the cubeContainer matrix)

Thanks again

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i’ve been writing some projects with FLARManager and everything has been great. i am having some issues with my camera though. i’m not sure if it’s FLAR specific but maybe you could point me in the right direction if not.

i keep getting a looping error when attempting to run my application:

[FLARManager] Initing camera ‘USB Video Class Video’.

it does this sometimes but recently it seems indefinite. how can i fix this?

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Hey Eric, first of all, excellent job. I’ve built a complete project with it and it works great in Flex Builder and when I launch from the bin-debug or bin-release locations of the project folder. However, I want to migrate the project to a different computer. Even though I copy the entire project folder over, I get a blank page. I assume it’s got something to do with an absolute path somewhere, but I wanted to make sure this wasn’t a recurring problem before I dive in.

thanks!

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Hi

Apologise this is probably a very simple error I should know

I have imported the project as described into FB3, but I get many errors of the kind ;

A file found in a source-path must have the same package structure ”, as the definition’s package, ‘org.libspark.flartoolkit’. FLARToolkit/[source path] flartoolkit FLARException.as

But the package names all seem OK , like FLARException.as is ‘package org.libspark.flartoolkit’ what am I doing wrong I have spent all morning on this

please help

Sorry a million

I have sorted out my basic error . It was not the imported project causing the problem, It was a problem with FLARToolkit I had installed previous evening…

How would I go about using FLARManager and Flash 10′s (limited) 3D capabilities? My 3D scene only consists of planes so I don’t really need a full blown 3D package. I just want to apply the marker transformation matrix to the planes (regular movieclips). Any thoughts?

Hello, I’ve tried your examples adding the example launcher class to a fla file, but it constantly tells about three errors in FLARLabeling_BitmapData.as telling me that is not implementing any of the inteface IFLARLabeling, but I checked and it Does implements them, and changes the FlarToolkit also but just don’t work, is completely neccesary the flex builder to use your framework?? van you help with this??? thank you very much for your time

is there a way to change the angle of the camera, so the 3D object shows at a different angle when the marker is straight onto the webcam?

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Hi Eric !

I have the following problem when trying to launch FLARManagerExampleLauncher.html

And when i click yes, it gives me the following error:

Can you help me out here ?

Hey Eric,

am loving FLARM… cobbled together a quick test in no time. Thanks for your package!

best, Dave

I can`t apply this on NetBeans and Flash 9, why?

Premade video clip as source for Augmented Reality?
Hello, I’m wondering if you could use a premade video instead of a live webcam video as the source video for augmented reality. Basically we want to give users without a webcam the option to play around with our site by providing a premade video of someone using the FLAR marker. Anyone know if this is possible?

Hey ericsoco great work man and thx for the FP 9 version, I’ve been working with that and got it working quite well, I will eventually need to share some additional code work for some practise ideas i have.

I dont have cs4 to publish Flash Player 10 im still working with cs3, any suggestive ideas or work arounds, also is the security on the z axis for repositioning?

cool mega thx that helps out alot

Any thoughts on combining Flare Manager and the Alchemy Flare Toolkit?

That would be really good!

True, maybe a start could be to optimize the regular AS version of FLARToolkit for Flash10.

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Hi Eric!
First, thank you for this great tool.

I am seeing SimpleCube.as in the Saqoosha StarterKit (SSK) and the cube seems to be static. In FLARManagerTutorial_3D() I see that the cube is moving all time. In the SSK the cube is very “solid”.

I thought that if I used a marker with 16 in resolution the cube would be similar to the SSK but I get the same.

If I will trye with a complex COLLADA model I think that the same “problem” would happen.

Is there a way to solve this? Maybe this isuue have a name, perhaps something with “matrix” word… I see that everybody in thisworld of AR use that word, but I’m not sure.

Eric, again, thank you for this tool, I’m learning and everything is easier.

Yes, is about twitch. I don’t know why the cube in FLARToolKit seems to be more static, as I said. I don’t know how to explain…

For example, look this (in FLARManager): http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4080/88075233.jpg
And this (in SSK): http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/479/23017727.jpg

Do you see the cube’s displacement in FLARManager?
In SSK the cube follow exactly the same position and ther is not displacement.

I know that is something that I should to add in my code, but I don’k know what.

Thank you Eric.

You’re right! it’s only in my code, in FLARManagerTutorial_3D is perfect, sorry for the notice, I will compare the codes to see what’s wrong

cube.z + =20…
And my code now is fine.

Thank you Eric.

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this post could become a forum

i think people using flash IDE will have to try to move to flex builder or try the old version of flarManager (dont know if it works) because the problem is that if you use flash CS3 you have the Vector and Matrix3d error and its difficult to change ( are used everywhere ) and if you try to move to CS4 you will have problems with papervision.
So if anyone come with a solution please share .

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Hi Eric! How are you? I hope you’re great

I am doing an AR application with FLARManager. I have put 3 videos and everything works great… except on-line.
On-line the SWF show me an error: “Camera not found. Please check your connections and ensure that your camera is not in use by another application”. I increase the value in “FLARCameraSource.CAMERA_VALIDATION_TIME” to a very high number but the error still appear. After a while, I see something curious. In my SWF I added the “FrameRateDisplay();”. The preload starting and when the SWF ask me about allow the webcam I wait a moment until I can see the green numbers, when I can see, I accept the webcam and everything works, but if I accept before the green numbers, the error appears.

So, the question is if I can add a preload, for example, after the user accept the webcam, something like GE or if I can solve this issue somehow. I don’t know if maybe I need to preload the videos, for example… if I need, I don’t know how, My project is in Flex, the preloader is very simple (is a .AS) and just preload the MXML that contain the entire application. Thank you very much Eric.

This is a great manager!

Though I have a problem. I can’t run other ThresholdAdapters then DrunkWalk.
I have made a reference do them, and the image looks good debugging with thresholdSourceDisplay = true.

But the manager doesn’t detect any symbols and it prints a bunch of “Error” to Output.
I can’t find where the “Error” comes from either.

Sorry, the error actually only occurs with IntegralImageThresholdAdapter.
HistogramThresholdAdapter works fine, but that doesn’t produce a good image.

@eric — Ok, thanks! I’ve tried adding Mario Klingermann’s threshold adapter (http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000690.php) but I got the same errors as with IntegralImageThresholdAdapter.

I’ve noticed that I get a better appearance if I use a slow, but good threshold and only run detectMarkers() half of the frames. Letting your smoothing algorithm taking care of the rest.
Though at this time I’m doing this by using the build in bitmap threshold().

Hi and congratulations for you work.
I have a really simple question: for a peculiar reason, I need to force a new marker detection, so my FLARManager instance will dispatch a new FLARMarkerEvent.MARKER_ADDED (or any other type of events). How can I do this ?
THANKS!

hi folks!

we’d like to publish the link (http://ruppen.bekloppter.name) to our first Flash-based game called “ruppen airhockey”. it’s using FLARManager to control the paddle movement. many thanks for this great piece of software! we hope you’ll enjoy to play a round and get some goals!

greets,
q-ball

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Hello, I’m creating a short application with flarmanager but the 3D objects are unstable. They vibrate. How can I make the display more stable ? Thank you.

Hi, i´m doing an university project using AR and i´m having troubles to
find the updated file from svn related to the problem of USB cameras
usage. I realy need to solve this issue to complete my project.
Thanks for your excellent work, and I hope you can help me.

I forgot to mention that i´m using a MacBook Pro with Flash Player 10 and I want to use the Playstation 3 Eye.
Thanks

I´ve tried all your possible solutions but any of them solved the problem
Is there any incompatibility with the Playstation 3 Eye camera?

@erisoco – First of all, let me thank you for your availability to help!

There are no compliler nor runtime error messages. As I said before, I’m using the Playstation 3 Eye camera but when I run my app, my iSight camera turns on instead of my USB camera. I’ve already tried to increase FLARCameraSource.CAMERA_VALIDATION_TIME and also set the camera index manually with FLARCameraSource. manualCameraIndex. What confuses me is that I printed all the cameras captured by the Camera.names method, and the “USB Video Class Video” camera has the index value “2″, so I set FLARCameraSource.manualCameraIndex = 2 so that the USB camera could be used instead of the iSight.
Am I missing something???

Thank you again!

I agree with ericsoco, Try this site as3 code for devices http://bit.ly/cGc3uZ, Im not using Flex (but should be) and test to see if both devices show up. Hope this some what helps

Also there is security that can set to find all devices I will do more research for you because I remember seeing it, and ericsoco luv the work you’ve done and thx u again

@sophia try this seems it may be settings? http://bit.ly/HgzJQ

That´s the point!
The iSight is a USB camera and having more than one USB camera is a big problem because there’s no way to choose which camera we want to use.
Is there anyone using Playstation 3Eye on a MacBook and flash player 10?
Thanks again everyone

Hi, first of all thank you for all your work. It looks more than amazing and it is blowing my mind away!

I just had one question, I want to change the code so that an animation will be placed behind or within the marker. Let me give an example;

Let’s say you have a 3d design of some sunglasses, the sunglasses are placed horizontal so that the glasses are looking at you when you hold up the marker. I want to make that the legs of the sunglasses are behind the marker and the glasses itself are in front of the marker.

I tried to work with model.z = -100; and I think this is the good way because the design actually get’s smaller but it still display’s in front of the marker. Is there a way to solve this problem?

Thank you in advance.

@ericsoco – Thank’s for your fast answer. I must admit i’m still a beginner with this and I don’t understand what you mean with cut out the area of the video that contains the marker. With position it at a different depth than the 3D model, you mean using the model.z?

I’m very sorry but can you maybe use the sunglasses as example when you explain with some source code?

Sorry for the trouble. I understand how frustrating it can be when a noob walks in.

Thank you very much.

Hi all!
About the USB cameras detection. I´ve been trying the possible solutions posted here but any of them worked for me.
Is there any other way to solve it?
Thanks!

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Problem solved!
Thanks to this site : http://bit.ly/HgzJQ suggested by Haito51 and changing the var named manualCameraIndex to the index of my external USB camera (in my case) it worked well.
Thanks for your help.

I have another question. Is there any way to use the mirrorDisplay=”false” mantaining the 3D object´s behaviour when using mirrorDisplay=”true”. I mean, if you move the marker to the left the object goes to the left too, if you move the marker to the right the object goes to the rigth too. The goal is to have the mirrorDisplay=”false” but keeping the 3D object always over the marker. I need to do it becouse I´m doing a board game and it has some words, and these words appears exchanged on the screen when using mirrorDisplay=”true”. Can you give me some help.
Thank you very much.

Any tips on using FLARManager with the alchemy version of FLARToolkit? Even if it’s just with a single marker?

Problem solved again.
Thank you so much, and now I´m ready to test my aplication

Just a heads up, your “hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl…” is down due to ”
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corporation.”

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Hey mate, great work on your FlarManager.

I’m just having a hard time getting this up and running so I can compile from cs4. There seems to be a bunch of errors related to incompatible overrides and such (these errors relate to the FlarKit classes, so probably nothing to do with you). Just wondering if you or anyone has a working fla?

Cheers.

Has anyone came across the error where if you have a camera plugged in, start the application, allow the camera usage through the securitypanel, then unplug the camera, refresh the browser, the security panel pops up as if there was still a camera plugged in? I’m going nuts trying to figure it out. Is it a flash player/operation system bug?

Hello,

flarmanager works great on mac. somehow i never get the camera alert and no camera source under windows. basically i can access the camera under windows. but with the flarmanager classes it won´t work.

many thanx, florian

hello ericsoco,
thanks for your ultrafast answer!
i just updated to newest version of flarmanager.
now camera detection work fine. sorry i could have tried this first

now the last problem is that my 3d models seem to be stretched. a square plane is always rectangle. are there changes to the way of matrix conversion.

i still use this:

container.transform = FLARPVGeomUtils.convertFLARMatrixToPVMatrix(marker.transformMatrix);

many thx,
flo

hi~Eric

I’m live in South Korea. and I know you. My professor youngHui kim mentions about you.
I think your work( flarmanger) very awesome….It’s very wonderful..!!
I schedule to use flarmanger my graduation project..can I use this?
I wonder to use multi marker..it is a very difficult solution..
very impressive your work…I leave message again~ bye~^^

I seem to be getting weird error – I thought it might be down to not targetting 10 properly but everything else checks out fine.

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: . NyARLabelOverlapChecker.as ARDemo/src/jp/nyatla/nyartoolkit/as3/core/labeling Unknown Flex Problem

I get this on three of the nyartoolkit files. If I ignore the errors it seems to compile ok though. Any ideas?

hey xerode,

i always get this error when opening flash builder. then i executed Project –> Clean…
the errors then disappeared.

greetz,
flo

@flo – That seems to have worked perfectly, thanks! Guess it’s just down to my lack of experience with Flex Builder/Eclipse.

@ericsoco – Thanks so much for FLARManager, I’ve managed to get a basic demo up and running and after some initial issues (more to do with Eclipse than anything else) it was surprisingly easy!

Thx for the code.

Question on away lite, you have some comment. It appears very in-accurate in tracking. Is there some way to fix that?

Is it the flar itself?

Do you have forum?

.V

hi~eric. I’m Jung Ik. Do you remember me?

I have a question. I made the 3D model and succeed attach on the marker.

When I moved the marker , disappeared the 3D model. any soulution?

Just wondering, if you has say, a few thousand of these markers. How fast would it be able to detect a certain one and display it’s related information?

is there a limit to the number of makers you can have? not meaning on screen at once, but the number of markers in the database, essentially, how long would the lookup/detect take?

Hi there!

Amazing work, many thanks for it!!!

I have a little problem with the camera quality, using the examples provided: The quality of the image is very very low-fi.

I tested the FlarToolkit default examples and the camera quality is notably high compared with the FlarManager examples. Are there some way to adjust the camera quality with FlarManager??

I tried changing the parameters sourceWidth, sourceHeight, displayWidth,displayHeight, framerate, downsampleRatio, smooth but nothing changed

Many thanks!

Hey Eric – Thanks so much for troubleshooting with us.

I’m trying to demo this for a quick school project, but I don’t know the first thing about Flex Builder (3). I can’t seem to get the AR working outside of the project folder / debug mode FLARManagerExampleLauncher. Even if I move the whole folder structure to a different location (i.e. desktop) I get errors… Maybe you can help me understand what’s wrong? At this point, I’m still just trying to get the Example Launcher to work from outside Flex.

SecurityError: Error #2148: SWF file file:///Users/myusername/Desktop/AR/export/flar/FLARManagerExampleLauncher.swf cannot access local resource ../resources/flar/flarConfig.xml. Only local-with-filesystem and trusted local SWF files may access local resources.
at flash.net::URLStream/load()
at flash.net::URLLoader/load()
at com.transmote.flar.utils::FLARManagerConfigLoader/http://transmote.com/flar::loadConfigFile()
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/initFromFile()
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager()
at examples::FLARManagerTutorial_Collada()
at FLARManagerExampleLauncher()

Really appreciate this resource and any help anyone can give!

@ericsoco thanks for the help. Shoulda just googled it in the first place!

I also found this that helped with the Error #2148, if anyone else is having that problem: http://blog.mandalatv.net/2007/06/flex-securityerror-error-2148-while-accessing-local-xml/

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Je cherche de l’aide pour réaliser une réalité augmentée.
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merci beaucoup

Ericsoco, this is a good tutorial and it works great! I don´t speak english so well how you can see but I wanna ask you: Can I load different objects to the differents markers? I could not duplicate the necesary code to get this. Any idea?

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The “No camera found” Event is not being dispatched if no camera is present because it returns a NULL object at line 345.
this.attemptedCameras[this.camera.index] = true;

this.camera.index is null.

Great job man, keep up the good work!

I’m using MakerGenerator.air(http://saqoosha.net/lab/FLARToolKit/MarkerGenerator/MakerGenerator.air) to create my custom .pat file. I’ve create my graphic per the instructions (at http://www.mikkoh.com/blog/2008/12/flartoolkitflash-augmented-realitygetting-started/comment-page-6/#comment-12893) to create a graphic 80x80mm black square with a 40x40mm white area inside, and place a black graphic inside that. Using MakerGenerator.air, I captured the graphic, and saved the .pat file.
In the flarConfig.xml file I’ve added in my custom .pat file, and then tested using the Multiple Markers Flash CS4.swf example.
At this point the other .pat files work, but my custom one does not. Am I failing to specify the existence of my file to some component? Looking at my .pat file in Notepad I see that the values range btw 0 and 255, while in all the other .pat files values are either 0 or 255. Would this be the problem? How else should I create the .pat file?

Thanks for pointing that out; yes, I have and still no positive results. Gone to a very simple pattern, and still not working, but soon? ;=)
Is all that is necessary is to produce a .pat file, put it in the correct location, add the filename to the flarConfig.xml, and print out your graphic? Or is there another step?

Thanks.

I’m now using the tool at http://flash.tarotaro.org/blog/2008/12/14/artoolkit-marker-generator-online-released/ to create custom .pat files, as it allows me to create .pat files from a graphics file, instead of holding a printed image up to the screen. This seems to work better, although I’m still having a problem getting a custom marker to be recognized. I can take the data from a .pat file, copy to a new .pat file, save under a different name, and then remove the filename of the old .pat and insert the new in the flarConfig.xml file. The pattern is the recognized by the web cam. But creating a custom one doesn’t seem to work.

I have noted that the pat files are actually an image, created by the density of numbers, where white areas are represented by 0 (lots of white space around) and dark by 255. (You’ve seen things like Lincoln imaged by a similar arrangement of letter-tones) You can easily see this by creating a 64×64 pat file in the above generator, and opening in Notepad, stretching the file window out so that the carridge returns line up at the right side. If you scroll through the file you’ll see your image repeated in 4 different orientations 3 times each. Why the three times, I don’t know, but I’d guess FLAR uses each of these orientations to recognize the pattern in different directions.

Still can’t get a custom pattern to actually work, tho. Any ideas?

Thanks,
PDUB

Ok, custom marker is working. I removed the 8 x 8 pat file file references from the flarConfig.xml file, and with the resolution set to 64, it functions.

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hello..help me please
is there is any clear soultion for the flash cs4 problem
i mean when i use FM on cs4 it show “cant overide the flarmMultiMarker method…”
i real need this
please can you tell me what should i do in steps or somthing

kindly reply asap

I’ve downloaded the Flash CS5 trial, and FLARmanager works well

Where would I get info on how to play/loop certain segments of an animation? I’ve seen this on the GE AR project; on the markerAdded event, the animation begins as the scene literally unfolds; it then loops, until a markerRemoved event, where it folds up back into the marker. What properties do I need to access to target the aniamation frames, and in what classes? Any help would be great. THanks,

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For my current project I didn’t want to use the default threshold adapters so I followed the instructions and set the thresholdAdapter property = null in AS3 once FLARManager was initialised? Please correct me if this is the wrong approach and if there’s a way to set this in the XML. I couldn’t seem to remove the default thresholdAdapter.

However when I call dispose() I get a null object reference because FLARManager calls dispose() on the thresholdAdapter around line 652! To fix this I’ve just added a simple if statement to check and see if we are using a thresholdAdapter.

This is FLARManager 0.7 I believe. It would also be great to get a version constant in FLARManager so it’s easy to tell what version you download. And it’s running in Flash CS5 IDE and working fine which is great news!

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Hey Eric,

really really great work.
I’ve test it with flash builder and it works great, but
it only works on my computer.

if i test it on other, theres only a blank window.
i just copy the flar Manager on my Webserver to test.
It’s working great.

keep up with the good work

best wishes volker

Hey, I noticed you started with reactivision in your early tests. I’m interested in your thoughts on the performance of a FlarManager app versus a reactivision app (eg. flash app reading the tuio messages from a server – on 1 machine or splitting on 2)?

Cheers.

Hi,
I tried Flarmanager and everything works fine, however I was trying to find out exactly which files and folder I have to copy to make it work in another computer without having to setup the hole developing environment. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Create a folder that will hold one folder for your .swf, and then the resources folder. That should be all you need.

hi, how can i access my video source for smoothing? thankyou

Hi Eric,

Great work! Any news on the new version of Flarmanager with flare? You have us all eager to try it out since your last video teasers. Thanks for making a difference!

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hi ,i downloaded last version
i’m getting this error :
1020: Method marked override must override another method. in flarmultimarkerdetector.as
i tried removing the override but it keeps thorwing other errors after
help ?

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Hey Eric,
thanks for your great job. Actually im on a Project using FLARManager an PV3D.
Everythings wokrs fine, except that i get the folling Error Message sometimes.

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: . NyARLabelOverlapChecker.as ARDemo/src/jp/nyatla/nyartoolkit/as3/core/labeling Unknown
Flex Problem

To clean up the Project helps and the Error is gone, but unfortunately this is not a satisfying solution. So do you have an idea, how to solve this issue? Is seems there is a problem with the dot “.” after the “Vector.” in three of the NyARToolKit Files.
I use Flash Builder 4, the Flex4 SDK on a Mac (10.6.4).
Hope you can help me!
greetings Ömer

I have read a lot about this error and checked the code as well and seems all the suggestions has been implemented in FlarManager v0.7.
i have developed a small demo and tested it locally it works fine but when i deployed it to website it started throwing following error:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.transmote.flar.source::FLARCameraSource/initCamera()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\source\FLARCameraSource.as:363]
at com.transmote.flar.source::FLARCameraSource/init()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\source\FLARCameraSource.as:127]
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/initFlarSource()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:1018]
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/init()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:961]
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/onConfigParsed()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:956]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.transmote.flar.utils::FLARManagerConfigLoader/http://transmote.com/flar::parseConfigFile()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\utils\FLARManagerConfigLoader.as:137]
at com.transmote.flar.utils::FLARManagerConfigLoader/onConfigLoaded()[H:\Documents and Settings\Pooja Sethi\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FMDemo\src\com\transmote\flar\utils\FLARManagerConfigLoader.as:297]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()

Please suggets

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Hi eric,

does the download doesn’t work anymore. there was an error and i coundnt download it

best wishes

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FLARManagerTutorial_Collada shows me error
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class cmodule.libFlareTracker::CLibInit could not be found.
Iam using Flash CS4 IDE

[FLARManager] Initing camera ‘USB Video Device’.
[FLARManager] Initial camera validation complete…
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class cmodule.libFlareTracker::CLibInit could not be found.

at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FlareManager/initTracker()
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/onTrackerInited()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FlareManager/onInited()
at com.transmote.utils.time::Timeout/onTimerComplete()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.utils::Timer/tick()
[FLARManager] Validated camera ‘USB Video Device’.

Plz Suggest

I’m having difficulty running the getting started tutorial (above) in Flash Builder 4 (latest update)… Play button in FB4, goes to browser – Flash video/webcam options load, but the marker isn’t detected.

Curiously, when I run the .swf as standalone’s outside the browser, the same file is just a single-frame image..

Hi eric, how are you?

I use flash builder…and mac,..I tried Flarmanger 1.0 eample( FlarMangerExampleLauncher).

and push debug button..and allows security of flash player..but my computer screen stop..
just like still image shot..

my flash player version higher than 10…I don’t know what the problem..

Camera loads and captures a still image but I don’t get a video stream.

tried version 07 from SVN and the camera works fine

In version 1_0, running the project in debugger I get:
[FLARManager] Initial camera validation complete…
[FLARManager] Validated camera ‘USB2.0 UVC WebCam’.

Same behavior in _AppLauncher & Profiler.

Ideas?

Thank you for the quick reply. There are two correct? flareNFT.lic and flareTracker.lic.

I have them both in bin-debug and bin-release

Thanks again.. I’m on it

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Hi, fantastic work! Any way it will work on android?

Hi, I am having problem in FLARManager package. Inside that i got Error message that

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Matrix3D. FLARPVGeomUtils.as /AR/src/com/transmote/flar/utils line 41 Flex Problem

Please help now if you are online ASAP. I got stuck in a project.

Hi I have pasted that SWC but still i don’t know it show some errors. Please if you can guide me that i can set up and test entire project properly. Please Help. Many Thanks.

I am trying to follow Lee Brimelow’s tutorial from gotoAndLearn in that case i am getting these errors….

Thanks ericsoco, we took a shot at NYARToolkit, but it was incredibly slow. I will probably try it with flare*tracker, see how it performs, but I guess there’s no chance it will run faster.

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Please ericsoco i have an error i am testing my flarmanager project by flash cs4 and its working but when i upload the project in my website i show the pattern to the cam and nothing appear . do i have to edit any codes in the html to get it work.

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Bad performance of video display and bad marker detection!

Hi there, I’m trying to get a nice performance for my video, cause even if I only init my FlarManager and show the camera image, my video display is pretty slow. I am using a Logitech QuickCam Pro9000, so it shouldn’t be a problem of camera quality.

Also when I move around my markers in front of the camera, there’s too much motion blur to get my markers detected. A strange effect is, that if I add the ADDED and REMOVED Events for the markers, it often traces out my events even if there are no markers visible at all. This makes it impossible to test my project.

I tried every possible camera setting with the Logitech Software and also ran it on my laptop, but no changes.

Did anyone have the same problems with low camera perfomance?
@ericsoco: Do you know any settings that I could check? I left everything on default in the FlarManager settings (flarConfig.xml)

I am using FlashBuilder 4 on a PC (good one)

Cheers

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@eric – Thanks for your reply. That was my first thought as well, cause i know there might be some problems with the logitech drivers. So I already deinstalled them and installed http://amcap.softonic.de/ instead. No changes. Other Programs are running fine. I got the same bad results with my Laptop’s Webcam.

I also tried your example files (f.e. FLARManagerTutorial_Collada.as) but imported the FramerateDisplay additionaly. Without holding any marker into the cam I have a framerate between 15 and 20. Also my traces say that there are markers detected (added and removed). Now when I hold up a marker and show your scout.dae model the framerate drops down from 5 to 15. The result is an even worse marker detection (lighting and camera settings seem ok, no hard light or smth).

The other problem I experience is the loss of my textures when using my own Collada/DAE files that I export from Maya or 3DsMax. I saw that many others had the same experience but their solutions didn’t do it for me. I’m wondering if you have special export settings that you could provide for Maya or Max?
So I had to program my own models (just planes and textures) in Papervision and animated them which resulted in an even worse performance.

3D Collada export solved – wireframe bug fixed (for 3DsMax and Maya)

As I assumed it had something to do with the path of the texture files. Looking for the path of the texture images in my DAEs and replacing it by a relative path didn’t do it. So I came across this plugin (http://www.opencollada.org/) which is able to export the texture files as a relative path. I used all the settings that are explained here http://blog.papervision3d.org/2008/03/19/exporting-collada-from-maya-settings/ and it worked.

Next problem: The DAE exports with animations but my alpha and scaling animations just won’t show up in my FLAR app. pfffff

@eric – as I said, I left those settings by default. But when I see Lee’s tutorial on http://gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=114 and follow his steps to the point where he adds the FlarManager, the video display seems to be pretty good. At this point my video image is already a bit jittery when I move something in front of the camera (especially white paper with my marker on it). But maybe that’s just because of the Flash Player, my CPU is going pretty high.

One thing I am struggling with as well is that it already detects markers, even if no markers are in the camera’s sight. Maybe the simpler the markers are (i followed the instructions of http://www.squidder.com/2009/03/05/for-nerds-only-custom-flar-markers-explained/), the easier the camera gets confused and sees markers in the video background or just a light reflection?
Anyway, if I trace out the marker added or removed events, things run wild in my console. It’s also strange that it sometimes adds or removes markers twice or remove events are dispatched when there was no added event in the first place. (see in Lee’s tutorial when you stop at 12:52, two added events are fired).

Sorry for my long posts but I don’t see any differences to other FlarManager examples like James Allibans (http://jamesalliban.wordpress.com/category/flartoolkit/) that seem to run just perfectly even with lots of animation going on.

Anybody happens to know if the latest FLARToolKit Away3D module is updated to Away 3.6?

I did mean to bring that up here, actually… I posted on the google group for Away3D a few monthes ago, but hadn’t been working on any AR stuff until this morning.. updating all my libraries now to try it again, but so far I would say they are still incompatible.

http://groups.google.com/group/away3d-dev/browse_thread/thread/f55500cca999755d#

Fabrice and Rob did address it though on the thread. There are some syntax changes that occured in the Away3D library that FLAR Manager is still using.

Weeks, not monthes.

Also want to add that Rob did tag a version 3.5.2 of Away3D on the SVN which should be the backward compatible version.. so it should still work with FlarManager. I think that’s what I’m running at the moment.

Away3D 3.6 is quite different from 3.5.2 in terms of internals .Number3D and MatrixAway3D are out and FP 10 native Vector3D and Matrix3D are in.Yesterday I updated FLINT particles Away3D module ,now if I have time I will help you to update FlarManager too.
Regards

Hola como estan…soy nueva en este tema de Realidad aumentada, tengo en mi pc el flash buil, tengo actualizado flash player 10, y ya descargue la libreria de flarmanager, la verdad no se en donde guardar esta carpeta y poder trabajar con flash builder y ver mis primeros pasos de realidad aumentada…alguien me puede ayudar.gracias.

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Hello All! Great stuff Eric. Wondering if anyone can help. I’m having hella trouble displaying a basic simple graphic “interface” over my AR feed. any help would b e appreciated Im pretty much stuck and frustrated. Thanks in advance for the help!
-Paul
nyneball@live.com

@Paul – Make sure to “addChild(interface)” after your FLARManager has been initiated and the camera has been added to the stage; else the video will just end up on top of your interface graphic.

@eric, I think I have a fun issue. I unplugged my webcam to work on an error screen to display when the camera isn’t validated and… even without a webcam, the camera is still validating! I get a crazy looking video display of staggered pixel-colors. Ever seen this before?

Hi all

I am a complete nube and I just cant seem to get flarmanager to work. I have spent days reading blogs and tutorials from the flash blog and still I am not getting anywhere. Pleas e what am I doing wrong.

Im using flex 3.2 with flex sdk 4.2 and compiling to flash 10. I follow these tutorials to the T and still errors too many to mention. FLARCode not a compile time constant same for FLARParam, NyARDoubleMatrix34, NyARSquare.

With FLARManager_v1_0_3, please can someone let me know how to set this up properly and what .as file im suppose to run.

I know most of you have better things to do but please I am nothing short of jumping out of a window right now.

my email is martin@cistudios.co.za if you want to contact me directly.

Please please please someone help me
Thank you

@ericsoco I’m running into a probleme where I get this message “flarSource.source not yet inited”. I found this code over here: com/transmote/flar/tracker/FLARToolkitManager.as. Seems to be something with the image not having loaded before flar tries to do stuff with it. Any ideas?
The only thing I can find on google are posts by a colleague of mine that had the same problem. Is there anyone who got the 2d loader example to work at all?
Hope to head from you soon!

Thank you so much for getting back to me. Lol that window is looking pretty good right now

I have followed that tutorial word for word several times. I have made sure that I dont use default folder and after opening the project made sure that I have access to com and org folder. I don’t get the HTML wrapper error. In fact there are no errors till I try and run an example by Run>Debug>FLARManagerExampleLauncher and get 39 errors in total as mentioned before. When I double click on the Error “1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: FLARCode. FLARManager/src/com/transmote/flar/pattern FLARPatternLoader.as” it just takes me to the FLARPatternLoader.as file and highlights the loadedPatterns function. I read someware that the vector problem was a flex problem and upgrading to 3.2 would solve it. But it didnt lol.

I didnt change any files or pathes. Im unziping the file importing it and run debug it.

I know Im doing something stupid just dont know what. not just 2D loader all of it.

Thank you for trying to help really appreciate it. Im a designer but am learning to program . I thought papervision would be a good start. I am pretty decent in papervision now so I have a good idea what to do lol just cant figure this out

I Have noticed one thing though the errors change when I switch between sdk 3.2 and 4.1 dont know if this helps.

Hi there,

I have recently started working with AR and things have been good so far. After listening lots of good things about FLARManager I downloaded it to try. I am using FLASH CS4 IDE for compiling.

I wanted to import an animated dae file through PV3D. When I used the default files & and examples which come along with your distro everything ran fine. I wanted to add my customizations to one of the PV3D classes(DAE specifically).

So Instead using the PV3D SWC file which comes in the package I unzipped the PV3D files in the org folder & removed the lib path from my flash file so my imports are done from the org.papervision3d folder & not SWC file.

This is when this error started popping up and nothing worked.
” ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FLARManagerExampleLauncher is not defined.”

While trying to figure out what caused the error I commented most of the things in the example, then one bye one uncommented code and found that as soon as I added this:
” var model:DAE = new DAE(true, “model”, true); ” i start getting errors.

Other papervision example is running file but not the collada/dae one.

If things are working fine with swc then why not with extracted files. the swc(Papervision3D_2.1.920.swc) version and the one i downloaded are the same(Papervision3D_2.1.920.zip).

I’ll really appreciate if you can help me with this.
Thanks,
ak

libs folder is in the build path it contains the folowing
Alternativa3D.swc
AlternativaTypes.swc
AlternativaUtils.swc
ASCollada.swc
Away3D_3.3.4.swc
Away3D_Lite_1.0.swc
flexTasks.jar
Papervision3D_2.1.920.swc
sandy_3.1_r1006.swc

am I missing anything?

@ericsoco All the paths seem to be fine. I tried “FLARManagerTutorial_2D”, that worked. And I tried “FLARManagerExampleLauncher”, that worked as well. When I rename the “patternSimMoving.swf” or the “flarConfig_loader.xml” I immediately get a streaming error, so I’m pretty sure it finds both those files. I’m working with flarmanager 1_0_3 and Flash CS5, exporting to Flash player 10. I also tried exporting the patternSimMoving.fla to flash player 10 (it was still in 9 in the package) but that didn’t seem to help. This is the entire output I get:

at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FLARToolkitManager/set trackerSource()
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/onTrackerInited()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FLARToolkitManager/checkForInitComplete()
at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FLARToolkitManager/onPatternsLoaded()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.transmote.flar.pattern::FLARPatternLoader/checkForLoadCompletion()
at com.transmote.flar.pattern::FLARPatternLoader/onPatternLoaded()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

Does that help?Thanks already for the reply!
-Tom

PV3D SWC working but PV3D extracted files not working

Hey eric,

Any clues on my problem? If I use your default package everything works fine in flash cs4. But if I dont want to use papervision swc file included in your distro and want to use the Papervision AS files by extracting them in org directory, the DAE tutorial doesnt work.

Thanks for your anticipated response.
ak

To Amit, Sorry for asking an unrelated question ,but why would you use PV3D? The lib is dead… Go for away3D ) . At the weekend i am going to find a couple of hours to update FLARMANAGER Away3D branch to the latest version (Eric I promised you )

@Michael — Hey Michael I would love to work with Away3D and have been using Away 3D on all my other projects but I am working on AR for the first time and most of the places online point towards PV3D tuts and info more than Away3D.

My AR app has to show around 30 seconds of simple scaling/transforming animation which I am exporting from Maya in DAE file. I am not sure if Away3D supports animated DAE ? Any pointers on this which might help me? Though my deadline is 4 days from now

@Eric — Hey I havnt changed or removed any lib paths/structures as other tutorials in example folder are working fine… even the papervision one. its only DAE tutorial which throws this error.

Sure Away supports dae animations! You may even manipulate bones data manually . Also you can use md2 format for animation which is binary and therefore parsed faster .

@Michael — Hey can you please suggest what latest version combination’s should I use for both FLARManager and Away3D. I am currently using the latest of FLARManager 1.0.3 which comes along with Away3D_3.3.4.swc … I will myself too check if I can export animations from Maya as MD2 but do have any info on this which you might wanna share?

Thanks a lot for taking time to reply back
ak

The latest Away is 3.6 and as it is above mentioned Flar is still not updated for this version . On Sunday I will attempt to do it. For the rest of your questions which are Away related I would suggest you to sign into Away dev group on google groups which is very helpful and there you will get all answers .

@Michael — Yeah I read above that you’re planning the updates, goodluck and thanks for doing this for everyone

In case my deadline extends for my project I will implement the updated libraries. In the meantime can I display DAE or MD2 exported animations using FLARManager 1.0.3 and AWAY3D 3.5… I hope there are no technical limitations with this combination.

Thanks,
ak

@Amit, You’ll need to user an older version of FLARManager to work with Away3D.. like v0.61 (at least I think that’s what I’m using.. version number comments inside the main .as file would be handy. ) And you’ll need Away3D 3.5.0 if you want to do DAE with animations or 3.5.2 if you want to do MD2s with animations. I’m using 3.5.2/MD2 and it’s working fine with FLARManager for me.

@Amit, Considering I’ve seen a few people asking that question lately, decided to go ahead and do a walkthrough of building a starter project with FLARManager and Away3D. I’m not an expert by any means, but hopefully it will help you along. And I’ll try to update it again when Michael/Eric work their magic mojo on the new version. Cheers! http://revalis.blogspot.com/2010/11/augmented-reality-with-away3d-and.html

@Eric — Call Function when Camera & Microphone Access permissions “Allow” button clicked..

Hey Eric, is there a way to call a function when Camera & Microphone Access permissions “Allow” button is clicked?

Thanks,
ak

@Eric — Hi Eric.. sorry to bother you frequently.. its just that as always the deadline is pretty tight

Is it possible to capture “Allow” / “deny” button clicks in the “Camera & Microphone Access” permissions box. Basically I would like to call a function if a user clicks “Allow” for webcam permission and if he/she clicks “Deny” I will show a message for the same??

Any ideas on this? I checked online, there are camera events for this in flash but how should I implement those while using FLARManager?

Thanks a lot,
ak

I see I forgot the first output sentence last time. That is this line: Error: flarSource.source not yet inited.
Any ideas yet guys? Since it this error comes from a function being called by the URLLoader/onComplete it seems that it loaded the swf just fine. It also didn’t work with a simple jpg either. Help would be very much appreciated!

Hi Eric,

Perhaps can you please explain this with a simple example on how would I implement this…

I tried this… but I am sure I am doing something stupid here..

this.flarManager.addEventListener(FLARCameraSource.onCameraStatus, this.onCamStatus);

Thanks
ak

This seems interesting. I added these three in ‘set trackerSource’ just before the 2nd if statement:

trace("flarSource: " + flarSource);
trace("flarSource.source: " + flarSource.source);
trace("flarSource.source.width: " + flarSource.source.width);
</code
And that outputs:

flarSource: [object FLARLoaderSource]
flarSource.source: null
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FLARToolkitManager/set trackerSource()
etc.. (view previous post)

Again, this function is called from the 'URLLoader/onComplete'. So it receives the swf/jpg correctly I guess, but it doesn't apply it to the FLARLoaderSource.source object apparently (or not in time maybe). Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it might have received the file, but it needs one more frame or another listener to read it's properties?

@ericsoco You just made me a happier man
I’m going to continue building from here and will post the project I wanted to use this for here when there’s something to show. Thanx again!

@Eric — Hi Eric, Thanks for your suggestion for my previous posts. Things are looking good with my application. Just a little hickup…

I was using the papervision’s Basic Renderer all this while and thought i’de replace it with
QuadrantRenderEngine, which I did today.

Things look better but doing this has posed another problem… My models now rotate perfectly when I rotate the marker but they do not translate correctly… like for every 100 units of marker translation the model move may be 10 units..

Any ideas on this? is there a fix or an extra step to follow while using QuadrantRenderEngine. Or is there any other alternative

Thanks for helping,
ak

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@Eric — hey there,

Any clue or suggestions on my problem. I basically just want to use QuardantRenderer for papervision with FLARManager. Renderer works fine but camera seems faulty.

Like I said in my previous post, for every 100 units of marker movement/ranslation, FLAR camera translates only 10 units but the rotations are fine…

Also I noticed that my model becomes too small.. again around 10% of the original
————
I have implemented the QuadRenderer as below

Instead of using –
this.camera3D = new FLARCamera_PV3D(this.flarManager, new Rectangle(0, 0, this.stage.stageWidth, this.stage.stageHeight));
this.renderEngine = new LazyRenderEngine(this.scene3D, this.camera3D, this.viewport3D);
this.viewport3D.renderer = renderEngine;

I have used this –
this.view = new BasicView(640, 480, false, false, CameraType.FREE);
this.quadRender = new QuadrantRenderEngine(QuadrantRenderEngine.CORRECT_Z_FILTER);
this.view.renderer = quadRender;
——–

If instead of CameraType.FREE I use camera3D i get the following error:
1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type org.papervision3d.cameras:Camera3D to an unrelated type String.

Please help me with this..
Thanks for your anticipated response,
ak

Hi,

I’m trying this tutorial (for over a day now), but keep getting this error
“A file found in a source-path must have the same package structure ”, as the definition’s package, ‘examples’”.

Can you please help me.

Greets,
Dennis

Hi, I downloaded the flarManager, and all the things to do a application with augmented reality on flash, but when I open a actionscript file, the imports aren’t running, how I import the libraries of flartoolkit, papervision3d, on flash?

Thanks.

@Eric — hey Eric, Thanks for your response, i’ll look for an alternative. One last thing…

Overall my AR is running fine but at times the model flips or rotate up/down very rapidly. I guess its because of the collective scenario based on lighting conditions and webcam being used… But are there any tips or some golden setting or any particular parameters to consider to make the AR smooth.

I have tried with default config xml file, and also tried increasing smoothness and other default parameters but not that great a difference.

Thanks a lot for helping out,
amit

@Eric — Hi, I have a thick square outline (80mm approx) and a logo inside. So you suggest I should not use a square…

Thanks,
Amit

@Eric — Hi there,

Just wondering regarding my previous problem where my 3d object is translating only 10% of actual marker movement… Is there someway I can multiply translation value before feeding it to the objectContainer(DisplayObject3D) in this line

this.modelContainer.transform = PVGeomUtils.convertMatrixToPVMatrix(this.activeMarker.transformMatrix);

Thanks again,
Amit

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Hey, was just wondering if you had any news on the Away3D update from 3.5 to 3.6, im sure your working hard on it, was hoping to have it soon though as we were looking to get this AR christmas card out before the 1st of december, how long do you reckon Micheal? thanks for your work on it also

Hi Eric,
I’ve tested Flarmanager and it works fine. I’ve seen that there is a multi marker detection, but is it possible to associate a different model for each marker ?
thank you
Alexis

5001: The name of package ‘examples’ does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition’s name inside this file, or move the file. F:\Flash3D\FLARManager\FLARManager_v1_0_4\src\FLARManagerTutorial_2D.as

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Hi ericsoco,

Any plans on updating the Alternativa3D support for Alternativa 7? Or 8?

@ericsoco – well, the new “free” version (Alternativa3D 7) seems a lot different than the previous version. It uses native flash Matrix3D, plus there seem to be quite a few changes in the engine. It seems like the structure of a scene is different, it seems like the camera is the main thing, and you add the view to the camera, and not the other way around (I used Papervision3D before trying Alternativa, so that was weird for me). Example:

camera = new Camera3D();
camera.view = new View(stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
addChild(camera.view);

and then when you render, you render that camera, not the scene

camera.render();

The thing is, I didn’t really dig deep, because I just wanted to give it a try since it’s free now, but the examples didn’t run, and then I went to compare the code, it turned out it’s quite different. Might be just a couple of small modifications…

@ericsoco – oh, and version 8 is in development, they plan on supporting Molehill…

@ericsoco – will do! once I have some free time, I’ll dig into it.

the solution to my error is, in flash cs4, to link the file examples in this way:
examples.”the name of example you want to try” without .as

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hi eric.

exists the thresholdSourceDisplay function in the last version (1.0.1, with flartoolkit)???

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@Eric, Hi eric, just wanted to let you know that the AR application I created with FLARManager is released and can be viewed at

http://airtel.in/closerin3d

Check it out when you get time.

Thanks for helping out during the problem times and creating FLARManager
Amit

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how do we get our dae animate under the marker?
i set the model.z=-40;
it should make the scout.dae cut half by the marker . but it isn’t
and then i try to make a simple cube in 3dmax with simple animation drop animation until it drops below the “grid” in 3d max .then export it, import it . the cube should go under the marker and disappear ,
but still not getting what i wanted
tnx

ok tnx b4
http://www.artoolworks.com/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1210

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Hi,

I have one little question: What have I to do to run my AR app on my website? Which files are needed?

Hi Eric! Tahnks for your work, is great!!
I´m having a small problem texturing Planes on Away3D. Seems that FLARManager is not compatible with away3D latest release, and the one comes with FlarManager has problems with BitmapMaterial. Am I doing something wrong?
I would really like to work with Away3d latest release and have no problems texturing 3DObjects
thanks in advance.
Lalo

Hi! sorry for the last comment. Now I’ve downloaded latest FLARManager and it has away3d latest release. thanks!!
Lalo

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help needed, need the flarmanager v06 file and cannot get it from here

hey eric that was quick thank u, im trying to follow Lee Brimelow’s tutorial, ive tried everything i swear, but still cant fix this 1046 type cant …..FLARMarkerEvent, i thought problem was flarmanager version, thats why i tried also with 0.6 (Same Lee used on his video) but still cant fix this… been working on this for 4 days help plz

thk u for ur quick answer eric, i thought this version would fix all my problems (im following Lee Brimelow’s tutorial) but im still getting the error 1046 type cant be ……Flarmanagerevent, did anyone could fix this error? plz i really need help, been working on this for 4 days

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Hei Eric.

I have to asked a question.
I already put all the things that needed for this AR.
But when I try to run it, that have a problem with FLARMarkerEvent.

example Compile Errors:
onMarkerAdded … 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: FLARMarkerEvent.

onMarkerUpdated … 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: FLARMarkerEvent.

onMarkerRemoved … 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: FLARMarkerEvent.

Actually, I want to make an AR that have many marker and collada.
Whats wrong with that, because FLARMarkerEvent include in the folder ‘src’ too and i did many changes but still FLARMarkerEvent didn’t work.

Can you help me about this?
Thank you before

thank you @ericsoco.

that problem already solve, thank you.
but i have another question. i have a project that make an AR that consist 27 dae and of course 27 marker, so after run it, that is an errors :

Attempting to launch and connect to Player using URL J:\PROJECT Road Safety Education2\ROeS\AugmentedReality.swf
[SWF] J:\PROJECT Road Safety Education2\ROeS\AugmentedReality.swf – 542447 bytes after decompression
Error: Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///J|/PROJECT%20Road%20Safety%20Education2/ROeS/./assets/FLAR/flarConfig.xml
at com.transmote.flar::FLARManager/onFlarConfigLoadError()[J:\PROJECT Road Safety Education2\ROeS\FLARToolKit_ver2_5_4\src\com\transmote\flar\FLARManager.as:832]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

humm i have to learn the code but i’m stuck to understand about it, could you explain the meaning of this error @ericsoco?
before this i search in the google, but i still don’t understand, i also try many changes to solve this but still error.
what i must to do with it? i’m very very beginning about FLARManager.
thank you before @ericsoco

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The project works perfectly on my computer but when I publish on my website not marker detction any idea?

Sorry to bother you with this, I downloaded the examples code and followed your steps to load the examples you give with flar manager but I got to issues
when load the project, three error say

Description Resource Path Location Type
unable to load SWC ._Alternativa3D 7.6.0.swc FLARManager_v1_1_0 Unknown Flex Problem

and

Description Resource Path Location Type
1017: The definition of base class Camera3D was not found. FLARCamera_Away3D.as /Prueba/src/com/transmote/flar/camera line 42 Flex Problem

I really can’t fin the problem with these, because I have no touched anything of the code, I’m using flash builder 4, thank you very much

hi guys i would like to ask you about GPL licensing with FLAR Toolkit…is possible to sell an application that uses FLAR toolkit ?
if it’s possible to sell the application, i have to made available on request only the source code or also the model,textures and animations?

i have to be sure of that or i’ll check for the commercial license.

thanks a lot!

first of all good afternoon I am a student of engineering in computer systems and I welcome your example I have a problem when running your example may be something simple maybe not using flex 3 to import the folder helloFLAR an error flag (unable to open ‘\ Users \ Brimelow \ Documents \ ActionScript’) opened the file. actionscriptPropierties (line 5) and the. project (line 21 and 26) and there I see that this path Users \ Brimelow \ Documents \ ActionScript ‘will who can help me solve my problem? I also saw in the properties of my project as mentioned in a previous post and saw that from there I can also change the path (Users \ Brimelow \ Documents \ ActionScript ‘) but do not know which change, we also note that in his video, in folder of your project appears a folder called source parth actionscript and add properties but neither is the work for me thanks in advance. excuse my English

Hi Eric

I have been working on getting your tutorial (http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/inside-flarmanager/basic-augmented-reality/) to work.

I keep on getting a strange error pointing to the FLARCamera_PV3D.as telling me:

1119: Access of possibly undefined property projection through a reference with static type com.transmote.flar.camera:FLARCamera_PV3D.

not sure why, an help would be amazing!

thanks

Kris

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Hey,

I am trying to make a stable application with the flarmanagar but I keep on getting buggy result. Example:

When I turn the webcam on I see meself ( duh )… And the object ( doesn’t matter what: cube, scout etc ) will flash around the webcam screen ( on my head, arm, tshirt etc. ). When I try the Flartoolkit version 2.5.4 I don’t have these problems.

Any idea what this could be?

Thnx

Thanks for the great work ericsoco ,
im using FLarManager version 1.1.0 ,im tring to make an AIR app in flash builder
i have every thing imported correctly(lib ,src,resources)
when i running the AIR app i get the FPS counter but the camera is non shown
i hope you can help me ,here is my mxml file:

Thanks for the great work ericsoco ,
im using FLarManager version 1.1.0 ,im tring to make an AIR app in flash builder
i have every thing imported correctly(lib ,src,resources)
when i running the AIR app i get the FPS counter but the camera is non shown
i hope you can help me ,here is my mxml file:

Sorry ,here is my code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009&quot;
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
applicationComplete="windowedapplication1_applicationCompleteHandler(event)">
<fx:Declarations>
<!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
</fx:Declarations>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.UIComponent;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
protected function windowedapplication1_applicationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
{
var ref:UIComponent=new UIComponent();
var fm:FLARManagerExampleLauncher =new FLARManagerExampleLauncher();
addElement(ref);
ref.addChild(fm);
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
</s:WindowedApplication>


Can you kindly make an Air example

Hi ,
I am getting this error and then my webcam freezes out. Can anybody tell me the reason behind it and what can be possible solution??

Error: Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/sharmaas/Adobe%20Flash%20Builder%204/FLARTest/bin%2Ddebug/
at com.transmote.flar.tracker::FLARToolkitManager/onCameraParamsLoadError()[C:\Documents and Settings\sharmaas\Desktop\AR\Actionscripts\com\transmote\flar\tracker\FLARToolkitManager.as:343]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

[...] 总的来说Flash目前可以用的AR类库有开源的FLARToolkit、商业的D’Fusion和Flare。此外，还有一个开源类库FLARManager，是用于简化和统一各种接口API的框架（目前支持FLARToolkit和Flare）。FLARManager还提供了多Marker增加、更新、移除等事件的管理功能。我目前在项目中主要使用了这个框架，感觉很方便。 另一个类似的框架叫FZFlar，代码托管在git上，感兴趣的也可以去尝试一下。 [...]

This is awesome! I’ll probably never be proficient enough to figure it out, but it’s nice to know something like this exists.

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1017: The definition of base class Camera3D was not found. help me,,,,

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Dear Flarmannager

Thx for your lib. It realy works great.
I’ve connected it to away3D 4 (fp11-molehill) and with the gpu acceleration of fp11 I can do amazing stuff.
I just recoded the camerasource class. The lib is analyzing perfect and I augument anatomic human models with app 300.000 polygons.

I can send you pictures (the project is’t live yet).

thx and greets

Laup I would definately like to check it out once you have something up, I’ve been working hard to get back and work on some Aug again.

I still have my fp9 version still working but havent got a chance to post it but would love to try some new things especially with molehill

@ Laup — Can you post your camerasource class somewhere? Is that all you changed to connected flarmanager to away3d 4?

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Hi I have made an game using Flarmanager and I have upload it to a remote server. Although locally the game works fine when I try to play it in online the camera image freezes. Does anyone knows what the problem may be ?

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hi,

can you teach me how to compile the source code of maker generator of tarotaro?
I’m new with this one.

Hi Eric,

Posted on the forums but no answers – wondering if there are any known issues when building AIR apps? I can’t seem to get my exports to work (after install, app flashes up on screen but disappears instantly), I’ve narrowed this down to the specific line “myFm = new FLARManager();”. Have had no problems with FLARToolKit, but I can’t use that as I need widescreen for my project .
The app works fine in flash but I need to be able to save variables in the local filesystem so it has to be AIR.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

@ liquidtheguy (long time holidays)

Sorry for the big delay.
What i did: make –> private var displayBmpData:BitmapData; –> public so I could attach it in a other class to a plane witch a bitmap material. Because the the new flash stage3D api is under all flash displaylists so you can’t get 3D models over a video in the traditional way. In this way flar(ar)toolkit is still analyzing but the rendering is done by the gpu. Just tell the bitmap material of the plane to update wich each rendering.
Over the plane you can place your AR 3D models (it’s a little tweak with camera fov and z-depth).

Hope’s this help.

grtz L

how to use the flar amnager i mean i am new to this and stuck
i have extracted n copied the folder in my project but i am not getting an intellisence….i use flash builder 4
m sorry if this is a wrong question at the wrong place any help is welcomed
thanks

I plan to use Flar Manager with the flash IDE (setup to use player 11) and Alternativa3d v8. I have got the 3d framework to work with no issues. Is there anything i need to be aware of in advance? i notice that FLARManager now has methods specific to the alternativa3d matrix 3d and camera3d objects, this will i guess remove the matrix manipulations abundant at the start of this project?

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Hi,

I’m wondering what the limitation are for embedding swf files on MarkerPlanes. In FLARManagerExample_Flash3D.as there is code on line 80 that allows you to specify the material that goes on the MarkerPlane. I changed the code to point to an old animation of mine that has a play button to start, and the animation plays fine, and the button works.

This got me super excited to add a game as a material. I made a simple tile game that involves a few classes, and exported it to swf. Unfortunately when I point to the swf for my game as the material for my MarkerPlane, nothing shows up.

Does anyone know what the cause of this might be? Is it because actionscript can’t run on an internal swf? Does anyone know a way to accomplish this what I am trying to do in a different way?

Thanks!!

Derek

Hi Eric.
I’m currently working on the tutorial ‘New tutorial on augmented reality with FLARManager’
Am only at the first 10 minutes of the video.

I have included the 2 license files into my bin-debug folder where my .swf file is,
but I am still getting a still image when I run the program.
Is there a solution to it?

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i am using vuzix wrap 920ar
i want to take input from both the cams and process them
and show the output in SS view

but i am unable to take input from both the cams simultaneously
how can i do that??

Hi,

I’m using FlashDevelop but I got problems with the .lic files. So I get an error while loading the flareTracker.lic: “ERROR: File “flareTracker.lic” load failed: ioError” The lics are still in my debug folder. Don’t kow how to solve this problem! :\

i had to download flash bulder, no other chances form adobe. i then downloaded the flar manager zip, but i dont see any example projects inside. any help? i used flarmanger for a test a couple years ago, i remember i had no problems. i have 2 days of time for the creation of a demo….will i succeed? anyone has a link with some ready examples to download?

Hi,
i was looking through your work. i really appreciate it. i wanted to try it myself so i downloaded the zip file FLARManager_v1_1_0. i use Flash CS5 for compiling. however i could not find the Main class in the3 src folder. in the above posts u have mentione that u have uploaded it, but i could not find it in my downloaded version. Kindly look in to the matter.

Thanks.

Ya. i found it later. thanks anyways.

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Hi,
Your page was really heplful but I am getting an error. Well not really a error but when I move my project to another pc and show the marker, nothing apears when I am using a .dae model, and if I am using a cube then the picture I put on it doesn’t show I only get a black cube.
Have any ideas?

BTW, I tried both coping the files and using the export build option in flex

Hi everybody!
I’m running my a.r. app and when i insert the code
labelAreaMin=”30″
labelAreaMax=”600″
nothing really changes.
Such a simple option would really save my little a.r. app!
Please, if somebody can, help me!

this.flarManager=new FLARManager(“../resources/flar/flarConfig.xml”);
this.addChild(Sprite(this.flarManager.flarSource));

this is the code i am using but for som reason the sprite is not showing me the camera feed
it asks for permission for using camera and when i allow it i dont see anything but black screen!!!
please help

Hi newbie. If the screen is black, it’s possible that one of the files supposed to be loaded can’t be found by the program. I was having the same issue if by mistake i mispelled the name of a swf or dae to load. I suggest you to download the debugger flash app from adobe website and run your app through it. It shall point you to the bugged line of code.

thank you alessandro

indeed i mispelled the name of the pattern in the config file!!!!!
cheers!

hi I’m new to flash builder. Currently working on a project for augmented reality. I tried ur code in flash builder 4.6. Its giving me errors. I finally reached the part where I can check the camera and I get this error
Error #2044: Unhandled error:. text=Camera not found. Please check your connections and ensure that your camera is not in use by another application.

Can you please tell me if the problem is the version difference and what I can do to overcome these problems?

i want to get the x and y positions of my marker
i read about FLARMarkerOutlinebut could not understand it

i am not sure how to do this please help

thanks

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Hi I downloaded the flar manager but I donno how to initialize the camera. I used the steps from gotoandLearn tutorial but it gives me an error

camera= new flarcamera3d();
…..

Can anyone please help me with it.

physics experiments…

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Thank you, i downloaded and launched that, very good job! now trying to make compatible with Away3D v4.0 beta

[...] 总的来说Flash目前可以用的AR类库有开源的FLARToolkit、商业的D’Fusion和Flare。此外，还有一个开源类库FLARManager，是用于简化和统一各种接口API的框架（目前支持FLARToolkit和Flare）。FLARManager还提供了多Marker增加、更新、移除等事件的管理功能。我目前在项目中主要使用了这个框架，感觉很方便。 另一个类似的框架叫FZFlar，代码托管在git上，感兴趣的也可以去尝试一下。 [...]

Hi, thank you for this job , i have a question about this , so can i use video layer in flarmanager ( augmented a video in our scene) thank you .
Greetings.

halo ..
how to moving object with marker
can anybody explain how to make this kind of
exp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO66qcXrbvo

Hello,
I find FLARManager as a very useful and easy to use framework.
I am currently working on a project with some augmented reality features.

However I have a small problem.
I am using the Flash3D example as a base for my project. The problem is that I want to stick the 3D object to the marker no matter its position. Now if the marker is in the center of the stage the 3D object is exactly on top of the marker. If I move the marker to one of the corners then the 3D object goes away from the marker as a result of the 3D transformation.
I want to dynamically move the projection center at the current marker position.

I know that probably I have to edit FLARCamera_Flash3D class. I see there that the center of projection is set in the center of the stage in this class:
this.sceneProjection.projectionCenter = new Point(0.5 * viewportSize.width, 0.5 * viewportSize.height);

Is there a way to change it dynamically so that it follows the position of the marker?

I hope my question is clear enough.

Thanks in advance,
Marvin

OK. I found how to do it. After playing with focalLength now I have what I need.

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its a pity that the flarmanager is not compatible with away3D4.0

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it doesnt work. because i have two camera so the whole program example doesnt show anything. even wrose i can not remove the camera.

Flarmanager as3 can run ios device?

I tried it use Air 3.5 Desktop (use FLARManagerTutorial_2D example),but it can’t run ,use player11.1 ,it run well, can you wirte a demo for air publish?

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Hi,

Great Examples Thank You.

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I am trying to work on an AR project. However, each time i try to import the FLAR classes, i keep getting errors, generated from within the classes and not my code. Is there any thing i may have missed? Help really needed

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