Still haven't been able to figure this one out. Any ideas or code samples successfully using MovieClipSprite out there?
On Mar 18, 12:08 pm, Revalis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm using the latest Away3D for Flash 10 and am having some > difficulties getting sprites to work. > > I have a sphere in the scene that I can revolve around and I want data > points on various areas of the sphere as billboards (that continuously > face the camera) -- as they will also have dynamic text blocks, I > figured MovieClipSprite was the way to go. > > Doing a search on the issue, I found a post with someone using MCS for > similar purposes, so I figured his code would work fine for my > purposes: > > var tf:TextField = new TextField(); > tf.textColor = 0x00CCFF; > tf.text = NAME; > > var s:Sprite = new Sprite(); > s.addChild(tf); > > var mcs:MovieClipSprite = new MovieClipSprite( s ); > mc.addChild( mcs ); > > mc is a reference to my container, objectContainer3D, in which the > main sphere is held. > Testing with this code gives me the following error: > > 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type > away3d.sprites:MovieClipSprite to an unrelated type > away3d.core.base:Object3D. > > If I try to cast the mcs as Object3D in the addChild(), I get: > > Error: ObjectContainer3D.addChild(null) > at away3d.containers::ObjectContainer3D/addChild() > > Any suggestions for where I might be going wrong? :)
