Setting Up Your Free Integrated Development Environment: FlashBuilder With Away3D

Installing FlashDevelop with Away3D is straightforward.

Firstly download FD.

Then download Adobe Flex SDK.

This link to the SDK refers to SDK 3.4. You can try a newer SDK version if you like, especially the 4.5 SDK. However, make sure you get roughly 120 megabyte zip file and not the open source version or other unless you want to try.

Here is the screenshot to setup the SDK in FlashDevelop. I've taken a creative liberty and just went ahead and drew in the missing instructions. I guess a picture isn't worth as much as the 3 or 4 words I had to put in. Ha:

So also, to quote the Flashdevelop website: "Java 1.6+ is required for the Flex compiler for ActionScript 3 development."

So make a quick run to the Sun Microsystems Java site and make sure you are installed to at least the 1.6 version of Java. Here is the link to the easy agent: http://www.java.com/en/download/

However, if you want to find 1.6 explicitly and go ahead with just that... congratulations because that is exactly what I did!

Enjoy! Ahhh. Stress Free Computing is what friends are for!