[Papervision3D] My attempt at a carousel

[David Harris]

Thanks!

The master plan with PaperVision involves her and my son...

stay tuned...more to come later! ;-)

On 4/4/07, Carlos Ulloa <c4rl054321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I've been following the 3d images of your daughter for quite a while!
>
> Congratulations for both,
>
> C4RL05
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> On 03/04/07, David Harris <djohnsmarie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Thanks for that, it works perfectly!
> >
> >
> > On 4/4/07, John Grden <neoriley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > mabye you could create a dumby object in the middle and tell the planes
> to
> > > look at it?
> > >
> > > scene.addChild(new DisplayObject3D("center"));
> > >
> > > ...  then with your planes:
> > >
> > > var obj:DisplayObject3D = scene.getChildByName ("center");
> > > plane.lookAt(obj);
> > >
> > > this is completely off the top of my head, and you might have to reverse
> the
> > > image textures so they're not backwards, but it's alot easier than doing
> the
> > > math ;)
> > >
> > >
> > > On 4/3/07, David Harris <djohnsmarie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Every one,
> > > >
> > > > I am attempting to create a carousel with PaperVision.
> > > >
> > > > If you look at
> > >
> http://www.harrisfamily.net.nz/devblog/enclosures/carousel1.swf
> > > > you can see how far I am.
> > > > The problem I am wanting to fix is when you view that, the far left
> > > > and far right are not correct, and are flapping round a bit, not
> > > > staying facing directly away from the center.
> > > >
> > > > in the rendering function I have the code to set the rotation values:
> > > >
> > > > planeArray[i].plane.rotationY =  rotationRadians * 180 / Math.PI;
> > > >
> > > > planeArray[i].plane.z = radius * Math.cos(rotationRadians) * -1;
> > > > planeArray[i].plane.x = (radius * Math.sin(rotationRadians))* -2;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > where "i" is the position in the array
> > > >
> > > > I am very newbie to this, so am I missing something obvious?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
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