01. The Developer's Guide is on this forum in the files section. Let me know if It does not cover your questions.
02. The instructions for viewing the link you visited are to just use the arrow keys for camera controls. 03. Right click on the stage and you will get to download the complete source for that example. [Elsewhere I have noted that the source code is garbled by InternetExploreer, but comes out correctly formatted and commented with FireFox or Safari.] 04. Also, as originally posted, if you want kerned words and formatted paragraphs, Mssrs. Wu and Li have that well in hand, and is not in scope for Bunko's next release. 05. If you would just like to drag and drop existing fonts and have them comverted to an Away Mesh, I think Bunko is the only facility that offers such an approach today. [By tomorrow, I expect everyone will do it!] On Jun 17, 4:55 pm, MadMax <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, a lots happened since I had a sleep, I should sleep more. > > Ok I see 4 solutions mentioned I think: > > 1. If the text needs to be full 3D (rotated, with perspective, etc) > you > could just use a function to generate dynamically a bitmap with the > desired text and use that as a texture on a Plane or use a > MovieclipMaterial (if the text or sprite has animation). This was a > little experiment using Dynamic text + MovieMaterial + > Plane:http://clients.stcassociates.com/stc/rss3D/index.html > > 2. If the text just needs to z sorted and always faces the camera, I > would use Sprite2D to display it. The advantage of this is that the > user can always read the text. > This is an example of Sprite2D text in a project I am working > on:http://clients.stcassociates.com/stc/locationsMap/demo2/STC_Locations... > > 3. dynamic vector text capability by Li by updating the svn, noting it > isn't finished, but is useable, and some sample code and explanation > how to use in both flex and flash above. > > 4. Glyphs using bunko ? (Didn't see enough info to try > this)http://groups.google.com/group/away3d-dev/browse_thread/thread/0d466f... > example:http://ssshq.homedns.org:8886/BunkoBox/AwayExample.html > > Thankyou all, > I will have another go at text in 3d soon. > Thankyou Li for committing the 3d text into away3d. > > Cheers, > Max
