Comments on: 8. Keyboard Interaction (To move the camera)

By: Q Kim

Q Kim — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:08:35 +0000

Thanks for giving us a great tutorials.
There were a few problems to follow this chapter as FreeCamera3D
But I found a solution among replies :D

By: Nils N. H.

Nils N. H. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:26 +0000

Thanks for the fix Steve W. I was so stumped when I just couldn’t find the FreeCamera3D. :S

Great tutorial nonetheless.

By: Greg Tatum

Greg Tatum — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:40:03 +0000

“Also, for other Flash noobs like me, ‘A’ and ‘S’ will not work when viewing from the Preview mode since A and S are existing Flash hotkeys.”

You will have to export the movie and not just use the test movie. For some reason it doesn’t report the onKeyDown events for those keys. You can see what keycodes are being read by the script by adding the following to the atKeyDown function:

trace(event.keyCode);

By: Hasbi asyadiq

Hasbi asyadiq — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:07:33 +0000

i’m using flex builder 3 as compiler and it works. But, I’v got a problem with my own 3D object, i’ve made using Sketchup 7. There was a wire shows around the object and also the material didn’t works properly, it looks mess. Can u help me please?

By: Lawrence Ong

Lawrence Ong — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:48 +0000

@Steve,

Thanks for your update — That’s what solved it after about an hour of head pounding.

Lawrence

By: cernosko

cernosko — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:40:15 +0000

Thanks Steve, it works for me but have a strange behaviour. After compilation in flash CS3
I can only move forward and right. When I open swf file directly everything works fine. Any ideas what is wrong? thanks

By: Emir

Emir — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:05:45 +0000

Hey Steve Washute, thank you man, your solution really worked out great!

By: asdkjfew oaw ejtowa

asdkjfew oaw ejtowa — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:54:29 +0000

Thank you Steve Washuta, your updated code worked like a charm, the first try.

I tried tinkering around with this on my own (VERY FUTILE).

Also, for other Flash noobs like me, ‘A’ and ‘S’ will not work when viewing from the Preview mode since A and S are existing Flash hotkeys.

By: Steve Washuta

Steve Washuta — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:24:23 +0000

For those that got snagged on the missing FreeCamera3D class in Papervision 2.0 like I did:
If it’s the best way or not, Here is what I used to get it to work.

Replace this:
import org.papervision3d.cameras.FreeCamera3D;

With this:
import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D;
import org.papervision3d.cameras.CameraType;
import org.papervision3d.view.BasicView;

Replace this in the Main class:
public var camera:FreeCamera3D;

With this:
public var camera:Camera3D;

And the final change,
Replace this in the init3d function:
camera = new FreeCamera3D(1, 500);

With this:
camera = new BasicView(800, 600, true, true, CameraType.FREE).cameraAsCamera3D;

For reference I got the newest API from the docs folder in the downloaded source.
Hope it helps.

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:45:51 +0000

I also see a white screen. I tried using just a plane using colorMaterial but no luck.
Anybody know whY?