Have you tried tracing the pointItem.x/y/z vars to the console, just before the render method to make sure they are what you are expecting?
Greg On Feb 24, 8:58 pm, Darko Radiceski <[email protected]> wrote: > Any advice or ideas what i should be chasing? > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > I have a sphere to which i would like to add a point. But that sphere > > is behaving really weird: > > > public function loadLocationOnSphere(x:Number, y:Number, > > z:Number):void > > { > > //updating the call > > var pointItem:Sphere = new Sphere( { material:"red", > > radius:20, > > segmentsW:6, segmentsH:4 } ); > > > group.addChild(pointItem); > > > var myX:Number = new Number(x); > > var myY:Number = new Number(y); > > var myZ:Number = new Number(z); > > > pointItem.x = myX; > > pointItem.y = myY; > > pointItem.z = myZ; > > > //pointItem.x = -491.80505; > > //pointItem.y = -691.41640; > > //pointItem.z = -2338.26134; > > > this.view.render(); > > > as you can see the code is nothing special. > > > But the weird thing is that if i pass to the function the values that > > are hardcoded in the call the point does not get drawn. > > > Like: loadLocationOnSphere(-491.80505,-691.41640,-2338.26134); - > > doesnt work > > > But if i remove the comments around the hard coded numbers the point > > draws on the sphere. > > > Can anyone please suggest what could be possibly going on? > > > Any advice is appreciated. > > > Sincerely > > Dan > > -- > Radiceski Darko > University of Wollongong > Australia > SIFE - UOW Chapter - Alumni > CASUAL ACADEMIC STAFF TEACHING - UOW SITACS > (School of Information Technology and Computer Science,University of > Wollongong) > Univeristy of Wollongong - Alumni
