flash actionscript: Hello all:

My question...

Is in reference to the rotating 3D cube located at this site:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/faces_depths.htm I'm interested
in making a slight change to how it works and I'm hoping someone here can
provide some guidance.

I want to have 4 to 6 different video movie clips on the faces (that are also
buttons which link to other pages) instead of the solid gray color. So, as the
cube rotates different video clips will be visible (and clickable). Is this
possible?

Any help is greatly appreciated! -Yvonne

Sorry to say, but I don't think you will be able to do that. I don't think that
a video can be distorted in the ways that provide the illusion of depth. If I'm
wrong I'd love to find out how!

There may be some way with some pre-rendered images and the bitmap class or
such in Flash 8, but it would be way beyond my understanding. (Well that and I
haven't yet upgraded to Flash 8!)

Good luck and let us know what you find out.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:37:01 +0000 (UTC), "yself"
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Hi Yvonne


I don't think it is possible (that's yet anyway) to put the video
clips on the gray faces.

The reason is because the cube rotating is VECTOR based. That is, its
made up with mathematic rules and matrices calculations and NOT
Bitmapped infomation.

To have something like images - (or moving images, at that) on the
faces would require pre-rendering technologies such as found in 3D
software like Blender, Maya, 3D Studio Max etc... and even further
technologies of 'texture' mapping.

Sorry, to put a downer of this, hey, I could be wrong, but I think
that the difference between vector animation and bitmapped is massive.

Vector = realtime (today's computers handle this well). No frames.

bitmapped = (any 3D animation movie) vector information that is
pre-rendered over many hours with many computers. ie a series of
images is created (frames) of the 3D movie.


hope this helps.