I’m digging into the tutorial on spinning images.
heres all the as:
// create a scene movieclip to contain all 3D elements
// and center it on the screen.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("theScene", 1);
theScene._x = 150;
theScene._y = 100;
// now we'r going to create an array to keep track of all the
// objects in the scene. That way, to position all the objects
// you just need to loop through this array.
objectsInScene = new Array();
// no camera, but a rotation will be needed to keep track of the
// spinning involved (though its the same as the camera)
spin = 0;
// focal length to determine perspective scaling
focalLength = 500;
// the function for controling the position of a friend
displayPane = function(){
var angle = this.angle - spin;
var x = Math.cos(angle)*this.radius;
var z = Math.sin(angle)*this.radius;
var y = this.y;
var scaleRatio = focalLength/(focalLength + z);
this._x = x * scaleRatio;
this._y = y * scaleRatio;
this._xscale = this._yscale = 100 * scaleRatio;
// on top of the normal scaling, also squish the
// _xscale based on where in the rotation the pane is
// since you would be looking at its side when at a z
// of 0, it would be at its thinnest which would be
// 0 since its a completely flat pane. So for that,
// we can use the trig function of z (sin) to squish the
// _xscale based on its position in z.
this._xscale *= Math.sin(angle);
this.swapDepths(Math.round(-z));
}
// attach each pane in a loop and arrange them in a
// circle based on the circumference of the circle
// divided into steps
angleStep = 2*Math.PI/8;
for (i=0; i<8; i++){
attachedObj = theScene.attachMovie("pane", "pane"+i, i);
attachedObj.angle = angleStep * i;
attachedObj.radius = 100;
attachedObj.x = Math.cos(attachedObj.angle) * attachedObj.radius;
attachedObj.z = Math.sin(attachedObj.angle) * attachedObj.radius;
attachedObj.y = 40;
attachedObj.display = displayPane;
objectsInScene.push(attachedObj);
}
panCamera = function(){
// rotate camera based on the position of the mouse
spin += this._xmouse/1000;
// Now, with the camera spun, you need to perform the rotation
// of the camera's position to everything else in the scene
for (var i=0; i<objectsInScene.length; i++){
objectsInScene*.display();
}
};
// make each figure run backAndForth every frame
theScene.onEnterFrame = panCamera;
What I can’t figure out is how to populate the stage with different movie clips as opposed to just looping through and duplicating just the one “pane” movie clip.
