Comments on: A Simple Papervision Carousel

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:09:47 +0000

I wonder if it can be modified so it looks like what iAds Toy Story 3 HTML5 menu? Without the arrows to control the movement, but just drag the items to make it move, then when click link to other pages. I really want to see such can be done in papervision – vertical draggable 3D carousel using XML to define the photos and links~~~~I am too greedy, hahaha

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:06:18 +0000

Hello!
Thank you so much for the tutorial, but I have a question, I need to incorporate more images in the carousel. I try to do with XML such as in other example that you have but a can´t.
PD: Sorry for my english I don´t speak so good.

By: Mickie

Mickie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:25:32 +0000

Ok so I figured out if I add this to the render camera code it rotates the carousel to the mouse:

var dist2:Number = ((stage.mouseX) – stage.stageWidth * 0.5) * 0.0002;
angle += dist2;
cam.x = Math.cos(angle) * 1000;
cam.z = Math.sin(angle) * 1000;

But I still would like to add a max speed. It also seems to go faster if the mouse if on the left and pretty slow if mouse is on the right Does anyone know why that is doing it and how to fix it? Also how could I insert an image into the center of the carousel that does not move/rotate? Thanks for the help!

By: Mickie

Mickie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:21:50 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I am new to flash and as3, and am having a hard time. I can’t seem to figure out how to make this carousel rotate relative to the position of the mouse (similar to your cow example). I also would like to set a min and max speed. Can someone help me please : )

Thanks

By: rabby

rabby — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:49:01 +0000

Heho,
Had to deal with the same issue last year. It was a bit confusing because the mat.interactive must be true and the plane gets the eventlistener.
Next confusion came with the event which can not be the standard events, but has to be InteractiveScene3DEvent and took lots of hours of reading through the source :-)
After that, it took some more minutes to find out the viewport.interactive which is not directly addressed anywhere in this sample, but played with viewport in another papervision test already.
Now it’s working properly.
Congratulation, papervision is a really cool “library”.
Best regards,
rabby

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:40:46 +0000

You’re on the right track. Yes the material “mat.interactive = true;” needs to be set. When you are doing mouse events you do not apply them to the material but to the object. so instead of mat.addEventListener you will do plane.addEventListener and instead of using a MouseEvent you need to use an InteractiveScene3DEvent as follows:

plane.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS, onPlaneClick);

The other thing to keep in mind is that you need to make sure that your viewport is set to interactive as well.

viewport.interactive = true;

Do that and you should have success.

Charlie

By: axel

axel — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:33:51 +0000

Hi,

the tutorial and view is great, but after one more desperate day with as, I still worry about this:
HOW TO MAKE THE IMAGES CLICK-ABLE.
I tried already any kind of AddEventListener… and also
mat.interactive = true;
mat.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ClickFunction123);

But it looks like this event is not implemented :-(
Please help