Comments on: FIVe3D Rocks, but name is hard to type fast…

By: nilloc

nilloc — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:01:57 +0000

@ Laurie – Cool Cool. Yeah I’ve made a bunch more changes to the Sprite3D in the FP9 version since this post, I’m gonna get them committed to my google project as soon as they are documented.

I’m going to possibly convert the current project I’m working on over to the FP10 branch if the performance can’t be optimized by other methods. (Or worst case switch it to PV3D *hearing hand arthritis forming over background music*).

By: Lawrie

Lawrie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:49:06 +0000

Hey – I actually completely forgot about leaving this comment until I found myself googling for ‘Sprite3D width’ again after a few months away from FiVE3D. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but Mathieu’s recently released a new AS3 version and an FP10 version, which I’m playing around with now.

I took a look at your code and implemented the changes in the FP10 Sprite3D.as, but it just returned NaN, so I actually just commented out the whole public override declaration for get width() and bingo! Totally works… well, at least with what I wanted to do; I added one big container sprite and then added a rotating cube inside that. The rotating cube pushed out the boundaries of the Sprite3D that contained it, leading to a changing width value. Worked like a charm.

By: nilloc

nilloc — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:45 +0000

Thanks Lawrie, I just took a new look at the childrenSorted option and it does the same thing as mine, though mine's might be bit more efficient, since each sprite doesn't sort the whole sprite each frame. (though i suppose this could be solved by only setting childrenSorted on one of the sprites?) Example code is now up on googlecode: http://code.google.com/p/blowingthroughlines/.../Sprite3D.as The changes I made were basically just to set and get height to a new __height variable. Quite a hack, and doesn't work if you have changed the height internally without setting the new value. (See lines 333-350ish)

By: Lawrie

Lawrie — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:54:30 +0000

I’d be interested to know how you made the amendments to the sprite3D class to retrieve width and height – I was slightly alarmed when I realised I couldn’t do that.

Also, it’s worth noting that FIVe3D v2.1 has z-sorting – you just have to do some hunting through the source to find it. You just have to use mySprite.childrenSorted = true; and all your child sprites will be sorted according to z-depth.