Right now it's in alpha stage : ) -Pete
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:59 AM, GameDeveloper <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey guys, > > So I'm trying to create the basics behind an isometric engine that > uses the new Away broomstick but am unsure as to why my idea won't > work. I know that broomstick is obviously in production still but > wouldn't mind someone being able to tell me wether certain classes are > unfinished. For example MouseEvent3D? > > What I have done already is make a load of planes as tiles and set the > lens to orthographic as well as the camera position at 100,100,-100 > giving it that isometric view. I then added one large plane that fills > the view port, this was going to be used as my mouse event listener. > > So I intended that when you click somewhere on the large plane it > could use localX, localY and loaclZ to get the mouse position in 3D > and then grab hold of whatever object is under that position and allow > you to drag and drop it anywhere on the screen. However i fail to get > the correct results from localX, localY and localZ more than once > (have no idea why it only works once and then only returns NaN). > > So is MouseEvent3D finished? or am I just missing something? > > seeing as this did not work I then attempted to use the UV but i guess > the UV is not the UVW texture co-ordinates but the distorted version > instead? > > So failing that i had a look at ray casting a line from the camera > staright down the viewport but seeing as Camera3D does not have a > direction variable I decided not to use that. > > So what I know have is a large 2D array or Planes in 3D space. Each > tile has a name corresponding to its place in the array e.g Tile_0_1 > but this means I have loads of planes that i should not need. Also > this collection of planes would only be used as a reference area I can > pick up each plane but then I would not beable to place it anywhere on > screen but only at locations where there is already a plane (tile) as > I need something to get the MouseEvent in order to place it in the > correct position. > So this works for the time being allthough i would need to then create > another array of tiles that are then actually movable tiles not just a > grid reference. I have had a little exploration into classes such as > Grid, MouseManager3D and Ray and cant see any of the helping, has > anyone got any ideas of how to make this simple drag and drop > isometric engine using Away3D broomstick, also i may want to rotate / > angle the view differently from time to time so not just isometric so > i guess it would need to use a 3d plane which you can the get the > local position of the click on? > PLEASE HELP!?!?!?!? > thanks > -Rhys -- ___________________ Actionscript 3.0 Flash 3D Graphics Engine HTTP://AWAY3D.COM
