Rob and team,
I had a look at some away3D for a friend last night and it seems that
when loaded Collada does not make it easy to access meshes that
materials are related to.
trace( getQualifiedClassName(loader.children[0]) );
trace( loader.children.length );
traces
away3d.primitives::Cube
1
(also tried this in the render)
Now this might not be an away3d problem it might be something else in
the code... but it struck me as rather a pain to get the mesh from a
MovieClip used as a material... looking at the turtles which confused
me... it seems that if mouse events are routed from a mesh hittest to
a movieclip then an event propogation could be added that allows the
MovieClip to find its mesh.
mat.hasMeshListener = true;
mc.addEventListener( Event.LISTENFORMESH, foundMesh );
After all it should not be so complex for a movie to change its own
position in 3D space and a real hassle to be getting meshes by name...
at the end of the day once a movie is used as a material it is
destined to be in a mesh or plane. To just add magic mesh and
materials to a MovieClip is not ideal and a listener structure allows
a MovieClip to do something each time it gets assigned to a mesh..
like fade in. It would really allow you to work with a MovieClip,
less having to worry about Collada or away3d details, like mouse
events really simple.
Realise Rob is busy getting ready for later.. so I will try to quiz
him after the meeting.
Cheers
;j
