I was looking at the latest bbdo worldwide and matthew mahon site; noticed its a the latest trend; creating 3D navigations and using them as menu to watch the content. Also notice that the guys at wefail.com used it alot.
Since a monitor screen can show you only two dimensions - width and height. To show depth, we have to resort to various tricks, the most obvious being that as things go further away, they get smaller. I already created this effect in my 3D perspective experiment.
On your screen, height is represented by Y (_y,_yscale,_height) and width by X (_x,_xscale,_width). Depth will be represented by Z. Since flash is a 2D program, it does not have _z properties, but we will create one.
The menu is created by randomly placing elements on the XY axis and placing all Z to the same depth. Thus creating a plane, our 3D camera renderer will render x,y,z coordinates and scale the items appropriately.
posted by Paul Ortchanian in scripted 3D (79) | Comments (6) |
Tom said...
Hey, your work is trully nice!
I often refer to your code. I have a little problem with the back button, can you give the source of your? I want to make a background button so when you don't click on an element you rewind to begin.
Thanks a lot!
Tom
Dan Schmidt said...
Paul,
I've combined some of your code to TRY tocreate a WEFAIL type nav. If I didn't want to randomly place ojects with your above code but rather attaching specific clips on the stage, how would you suggest doing it?
Paul+Ortchanian said...
hi Dan,
I suggest you creat a 2D array in which you place all the clips x,y positions as such
myXYarray = new Array([0,0],[10,15],[x,y],[x,y],...);
and refer to them as such
clip.x = myXYarray[i][0];
clip.y = myXYarray[i][1];
Dan+Schmidt said...
Thanks Paul...
Thanks for all the info on your site. Great stuff.
dan said...
do you get into anywhere on your site centering these examples in a browser, not just in the Flash file. I know your site is not a forum for questions but there really isn't much similar anywhere else. this is a fun site to poke around in
ds
Mac Gunu said...
That was exactly what I was looking for... thanks for sharing these... good luck.. good work..