[Papervision3D] Papervision Cube: Building an entire site within it

[Steve D]

Looking at your demo, I see that you only ever have 1 active face visible at
any one time.  I would suggest that you don't need to have your active sites
on the papervision cube at all.  What many designers will do is use the
cube's properties to animate a transition between faces.  But as soon as the
cube stops animating, they hide the cube and replace it with a flat, 2D
interactive movie file.  Then, when its time to rotate the cube again, take
a snapshot of the 2d movie, make that the new texture for one of the faces
on the cube, hide the movie file, show the cube, rotate the cube and repeat
with a different side.

There are probably a bunch of examples on the web.  The first one that comes
to my mind is the pixel perfect demo:
http://www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/07/pixel-precision-in-papervision3d/

Why try to shove a fully working site into a papervision texture, when you
can cheat it and get better performance while cheating it?


On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:04 AM, WebWorx <sutter_kaine66 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hello Fellows,
> I'm currently developing a Flash site where the client is interested in
> using the Papervision cube (it'll actually be more of a rectangular box) as
> a means to represent their site; each of the cube's sides would function as
> one of the site's pages. Here is the link to the mock up, pardon the
> crudeness of the quality there is simply no need to go all out just yet.
>
> http://www.hectorarandawebworx.com/SandBox/Burning/
> http://www.hectorarandawebworx.com/SandBox/Burning/  (Only the first two
> buttons are active)
>
> There are a few issue I'd like to chat about and hope someone may be able
> to
> enlighten me.
>
> 1. Is it possible for each side to contain all the content for an entire
> site page (ie: full text with scrolling capabilities, a video player,
> links,
> etc.)? I know that each side of the cube is composed of a movie clip;
> however, when I put a simple button within the MC it wouldn't react to the
> mouse rollover. As an added note, I'm not looking for the entire cube's
> face
> to be one big active button like the sample provided on gotoAndLearn.
>
> 2. The navigation menu shifts wildly when the script for the cube
> initiates.
> I purposefully added a 1 sec delay before the cube becomes active to
> simulate a time allotment for when the site will build after it is done
> preloading. In my tinkering I've found out that if the flash object is
> programmed to run in a fixed width-height manner the shift doesn't occur,
> but does if the flash object is displayed in full browser mode.
> Unfortunately, the site I'm working on needs to be displayed as full
> browser. Is there any way to overcome this shift?
>
> 3. In addition to the previous notation the cube flashes as the script for
> the cube initializes. Can this be reduced?
>
> I'd really like to come to a conclusion and find out if this is the
> appropriate solution for my client and would like to thank you before hand
> for reading my post.
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