[Papervision3D] Animating camera to target

[Ross Sclafani]

happy to help.
i use a custom class called SmartPlane instead of Plane
which has width and height properties
i have attached it. enjoy.

On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Eric McConkie wrote:

> Omg! This makes my day! I wish I thought of that. This could be the  
> perfect formula. THANKS!
>
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Ross Sclafani <ross.sclafani at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> there is no width property of Plane.
>>
>> try the following:
>> function getPlaneWidth(p:Plane){
>> 	with(p){
>> 		return (geometry.aabb.maxX - geometry.aabb.minX)*scaleX
>> 	}
>> }
>> On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:06 AM, montey wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Gordon,
>>>
>>> I can't seem to be able to get the width of the evt that was  
>>> clicked on. I
>>> set my click event on the plane  When I try to do a call like this  
>>> it throws
>>> an error.
>>> My plane consists of a bunch of color materials. which are  set to  
>>> be
>>> interactive = true
>>>
>>> Property width not found on  
>>> org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Plane and
>>> there is no default value.
>>>
>>> 		private function onPlaneClick( evt : InteractiveScene3DEvent ) :  
>>> void
>>> 		{
>>> 			//camera.lookAt(evt.target as Plane);
>>> 			var targetPlane : Plane = evt.target as Plane
>>> 			trace("evt.target = "+targetPlane.width)
>>> 			/*var xpos:Number = evt.target.x - evt.target.width/2;
>>> 			var ypos:Number = evt.target.y - evt.target.height/2;
>>> 			var zpos:Number =  evt.target.z - 100;
>>> 			TweenMax.to(camera, .8, {x:xpos, y:ypos, z:zpos,  
>>> ease:Expo.easeOut});
>>> 			camera.lookAt(evt.target as Plane);
>>> 			*/
>>> 			
>>> 			trace("camera target = "+camera.target);
>>> 		}
>>>
>>> gordee wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I have understood what you are trying to do, then try this;
>>>> interactiveScene3DEvent.target is the plane clicked on;
>>>>
>>>> var xpos:Number = iS3DEvent.target.x - iS3DEvent.target.width/2;var
>>>> ypos:Number = iScene3DEvent.target.y - iS3DEvent.target.height/2;
>>>> zpos:Number = iScene3DEvent.target.z - 100;
>>>>
>>>> Tweener.addTween(camera, {x:xpos, y:ypos, :z:zpos, time:1});
>>>> hth
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Gordon Everett
>>>>
>>>> My preferred email address: gordon.everett2 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> My Blog: http://flashgordonmedia.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:18:15 -0700
>>>>> From: e_account at mac.com
>>>>> To: papervision3D at osflash.org
>>>>> Subject: [Papervision3D]  Animating camera to target
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have 20 planes positioned with z spacing what I'm trying to do  
>>>>> is move
>>>>> the
>>>>> camera through all my planes as the user clicks on each plane.  
>>>>> I'm trying
>>>>> to
>>>>> figure out how to do that. I tried setting the camera target to  
>>>>> the
>>>>> clicked
>>>>> plane but that didn't work. I just want to tween the camera  
>>>>> through each
>>>>> plane like a fly through.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas please.
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