aaaah yes I see the issue now... good point! thx and keep submitting! class will be update asap.
Fabrice On Jan 14, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Axelle Ziegler wrote: > Precisely, we are usually doing it using the movieClip it self, but > that doesn't work in this case, because MovieClipSpriteProjector > overwrites the movieClip scaleX and scaleY to handle distance with the > camera. So, as I said in my first e-mail, our work-around was to wrap > the movie clip inside another movieClip that I'd use as a texture for > the movieClipSprite, but it didn't sound perfectly right to me, which > is why I figured that since there already was a "scaling" property in > the movieClipSprite I'd just need to extend that into xScaling and > yScaling to get what I was after. And that's about it. > > Clearly this feature is not an absolute must have, since you can > work-around it by wrapping two movieClips inside each other. I just > figured it made sense since the MovieClipSprite already had a > "scaling" attribute. And don't worry about killing my spirit, I'm much > more resilient than that. :) > > Hope this clarifies what I was after however, and thanks and congrats > again on the great work on the engine. > > -- > Axelle > > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Fabrice3D <[email protected]> wrote: >> k, I can figure out the "sprite" flipping idea and imagine the resulting 2d >> use you are after. >> Yet I still not see why not just affect the source mc itself? >> I mean, that if the handling of angle movieclipsprite/cam was automatically >> handled by the class then the class should handle the distorsion as well. >> But here its not the case. >> >> Just keep in mind that I'm not trying to kill your spirit here! :) >> we love when we get patches or inputs, but in this case, I'm just not >> convinced it would be a usefull addition >> considering the fact that you can do this very easyly without changing a >> single line. >> >> feel free shoot at me, if I'm wrong or miss something! :) >> >> Fabrice >> >> >> On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Axelle Ziegler wrote: >> >>> Well that's actually 2D, and not 3D, behaviour. The use-case is >>> simple : you display animated 2D sprites in a 3D scene. You are going >>> to have, say, 8 different directions from your sprite, which you >>> select by matching the angle between the camera and the sprite. Being >>> able to "flip" (basically, scaleX = -1) a sprite, allow you to draw >>> only 5 direction and to obtain the 3 remaining by flipping. That's a >>> massive gain of time and space down the line. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Fabrice3D <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Do you have a preview of the fx somewhere? >>>> I have hard time to figure out in which case you would want a "distorted" >>>> 3d behavior like this... >>>> >>>> Fabrice >>>> >>>> On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Axelle Ziegler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Great. >>>>> >>>>> I enclose the patch. Hope it works ok, I had some character encoding >>>>> issues. >>>>> >>>>> As one can see, it's pretty dumb. Two sidenotes however : >>>>> * I've kept the global scaling variable, which means the sprite will >>>>> be scaled by scaling*xScaling and scaling*yScaling respectively. It's >>>>> not entirely satisfactory, but that insures that the previous >>>>> behaviour remains unchanged. The other option would be to turn scaling >>>>> into a property, and have it set both xScaling and yScaling. >>>>> * I've used xScaling and yScaling for the names, so as not to override >>>>> Object3D.scale(X|Y). However those properties (scaleX and scaleY) >>>>> seems to have no effect on a MovieClipSprite. Would it be better to >>>>> use them, or are they used for other purposes in that case. >>>>> >>>>> I'd be glad to here from you on either of those issues. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Axelle >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Peter Kapelyan <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Away3D is open source, and we'd love any helpful additions, it seems your >>>>>> addition could come in very useful for some people. >>>>>> Thanks for contributing to the project! >>>>>> -Pete >>>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Axelle Ziegler >>>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The patch is written, and seems to work ok on our project. Can I have >>>>>>> a feedback about whether there is a chance for it to be included in >>>>>>> the trunk, or whether it's a dumb idea ? (I've only been using Away3D >>>>>>> for a few weeks, I might very well be missing something). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Axelle Ziegler >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> I specifically need horizontal and no vertical scaling, to flip >>>>>>>> animations, wich is, unless I'm missing something, not possible with >>>>>>>> the current version of the code. >>>>>>>> The patch I was suggesting was simply to separate scaling : Number in >>>>>>>> scaleX : Number and scaleY: Number, if there is no obvious >>>>>>>> inconvenience with doing that. I could of course write and test the >>>>>>>> patch before submitting it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Fabrice3D <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Why not use sprites/MovieclipSprite.as, with rescale:true and >>>>>>>>> scaling:Number ? >>>>>>>>> its designed to do this automatically... >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Fabrice >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Axelle wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> First of all thanks for the great work on Away3D :) >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I'm currently using MovieClipSprite to display 2D Characters inside a >>>>>>>>>> 3D Scene. Since these are actually elements of the scene I need them >>>>>>>>>> to be rescaled according to distance with the camera, but I also need >>>>>>>>>> to retain the scale from the movieclip, because some of them are >>>>>>>>>> flipped (to reduce the number of direction from animation). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> The working solution we are currently using is to have two movieClips >>>>>>>>>> embedded within one another, the inner one being flipped and the >>>>>>>>>> outer >>>>>>>>>> one being scaled by Away3D. It would be way simpler however to simply >>>>>>>>>> patch MovieClipSprite to have a "scaleX" and "scaleY" property >>>>>>>>>> instead >>>>>>>>>> of one "scaling" property. If I submitted such a patch, would there >>>>>>>>>> be >>>>>>>>>> any chance of it being merged into the trunk ? Are there any specific >>>>>>>>>> requirements to make a patch for the trunk ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>>> Axelle Ziegler >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> ___________________ >>>>>> >>>>>> Actionscript 3.0 Flash 3D Graphics Engine >>>>>> >>>>>> HTTP://AWAY3D.COM >>>>>> >>>>> <movieClipSpriteScaling.patch> >>>> >>>> >> >>
