Rob, Thanks. It's not locating an object or accessing the parent that is the problem, it's getting the 2D co-ordinates (along with the width and height) that I am after. If I access the parent and trace out the x and y co-ordinates you just get 0,0.
What I am trying to achieve is to position a 2D square over the top of an object in the 3D scene. The 3D object resides in a standard flash sprite which I refer to as the "container" as this is what they call it in other 3D engines. There does not however seem to be anyway of accessing this object from the 3D object (it is not simply the parent). I've found a ton of posts about people trying to do this but as yet no solution. It seems such a simple and obvious thing to need to do? Tim On Feb 13, 2:30 am, Rob Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > to access the parent of any object, simply use: > > myObject3D.parent > > generally speaking, it is good practice to keep object a scene hierarchy > with names, so that they are easy to access. A named object can be returned > simply by doing: > > scene.getChildByName("myobjectName"); > > this will locate the object with the given name no matter where it is in the > scene hierarchy > > Rob > > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM, timdiacon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I need to get the position and size of a 3D object so that I can > > overlay some text on it. I have found the following method in the > > away3D examples: > > >http://away3d.com/examples.php?example=203&_searchterm=; > > > However the problem I have is that my scene contains many items, and > > as I have no way of getting the name or depth of the 3dObject I cannot > > access it. > > > Surely there must be some way of accessing the parent container of any > > 3dObject. I know in Sandy you can simply call myObject.container. > > > Any ideas? > > -- > Rob Bateman > Flash Development & Consultancy > > [email protected]
