Away3D - Horizontal Spiral navigation (with source) 9 comments
Last November I had the pleasure of attending a great 2 day course on Away3D. Rob Bateman, who is a great teacher, helped explain tons about 3D development in flash. I’d highly recommend doing a course if you get the chance! Anyway, after the course I mocked up the below as a test. The codes been sitting around gathering dust so without further ado:
Demo:
http://www.darklump.co.uk/experiments/away3d/spiral-navigation/
Source: (you’ll prob need to compile it in flex builder)
http://www.darklump.co.uk/experiments/away3d/spiral-navigation/Spiral3D.zip
9 Responses to 'Away3D - Horizontal Spiral navigation (with source)'
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that is awesome, nice job!
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Great idea and example!Many thanks for sharing it! May I have your permission to borrow the idea and modify it for my site? Best Regars, vEsso
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hi Vesso,
Thanks for getting in touch and asking to use the code. If you don’t plan to profit from it feel free. Else I was going to put a donation button on the post and ask people to donate $15 (£10) or more with all proceeds going to charity but been too unorganized to do it. If you wanted to use it in a commercial capacity and wish to support a charity dealing with one of the following areas: Tibet, Palestine or Fire victims in Australia. Let me know which area and I’ll stick a button up. Otherwise the chances are I’ll never find out if you use it anyway ;) -
Hi Paddy,Many thanks for your kind response and permission! I will certianly donate if I decide to use your code, or if you really plan to rise some money for Tibet and Palestine.. For the moment I am only a beginner, introducing myslef to flash and 3D web ideas, have no business plans in this direction :-) I like your site and I’d like to learn more about these concepts. Do you have any instructions how to compile the spiral demo swf from the source you provide? I am not sure I have the right environment . I would really appreciate your help to speed um my learning curve ! :-) All the best, Vesso
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Hi Vesso, to publish the code you’re going to need ‘Flex Builder 3′ (or a flex SDK complier IDE). Then import the source code as an ‘ActionScript Project’. Another thing you may need to do is got to the Global Security Manager (http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html) and give access to your local development folder else the images may not load in, giving a Security error. Hope that helps?
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Hi Paddy, trying to run the spiral example using the Flex builder 3, I am gettin error on 3 lines of Spiral3D.as :
private var scroller:HUISlider;
import com.bit101.components.HUISlider;
scroller = new HUISlider();Am I missing a librrary(HUISlider)?
Thanks again in advance! Vesso -
Should be a file here ‘libs/MinimalComps_0_96.swc’ ? if not get it here http://www.bit-101.com/minimalcomps/. But looking at the code above, the import statement should come before the var scroller is created
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Yes, the order I gave above is wrong, it is as you say. The library is there as well, in the path you mention . Here are the exact error messages :
SeSeverity and Description Path Resource Location Creation Time Id
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: HUISlider. Spiral3D/src Spiral3D.as line 50 1239611357037 18
1172: Definition com.bit101.components:HUISlider could not be found. Spiral3D/src Spiral3D.as line 26 1239611357053 20
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method HUISlider. Spiral3D/src Spiral3D.as line 128 1239611357053 19
Hi
Thanks for the demo and source. Just what I have been looking for.
Cheers