Pikkipi source files

When I was building Pikkipi I had to really scratch around to find useful references for both the Lightwave 3D models and the Director coding.  So I thought maybe people would like to peep inside of the files that make Pikkipi.  They may not be the most perfect implementations but I figure they could be useful.  Also if you make something with them I’d love to see

Here’s the Adobe Director source file that the web version is built using.  You’ll need a recent version of Director:

download pikkipi Director source (zip file)

Here’s the object and scene files used to create the 3D people and their accessories in Lightwave 3D. The models are broken down into separate head, body and accessories (including hair) which are put together in Director.  (it was tricky to do this – I can see why they avoid it in video games)

download 3D Objects (zip file)
download 3D Scenes (zip file)

If you’re interested in bone animation for Director, I found that W3Ds needed only the most basic features of bone animation activated in Lightwave.  Check out the weightmaps on the objects and the rigs in the scene files…

For all these you’ll need the correct software of course.  They both pretty complex software so I wouldn’t recommend digging into these without a little knowledge of them.

Hope this stuff is useful – enjoy!

made with Adobe Director

I made Pikkipi using Adobe Director, which actually has quite a bit of history. It started off as the thing to make interactive CDs with, back when that was big and the Internet was small. Since then they repurposed it for the web and added a 3d engine. It’s now probably the best web-based 3d you can get with a plugin, and definitely the best known and best supported. Adobe are the people behind Photoshop and Flash, which you are probably very familiar with. It takes a short while for the plugin to load, and after the first time it gets a lot quicker. To be honest, downloading the latest plugin and waiting it to load are a bit more than I’d like but to have it runnable right in your browser is worth it to me.