I have a question here, i have no problem to follow your example here and make a sphere that will allow me looked inside it; but when i tried to add an image inside of it then i got a problem.

the only thing i’m able to see in the sphere is only a red square of thing. i assumed that’s the indicator for the mouse, though it wouldn’t move around in this test like the example i’ve tried earlier.

when i tried to zoom out a bit, then i’m able to see the image i’ve pasted. its outside that sphere, but i still wouldn’t be able to move rotated the sphere what soever.

here is what i have wrote..

package
{
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.ui.Mouse;

import org.papervision3d.core.proto.MaterialObject3D;
import org.papervision3d.core.utils.Mouse3D;
import org.papervision3d.materials.ColorMaterial;
import org.papervision3d.materials.special.CompositeMaterial;
import org.papervision3d.materials.BitmapFileMaterial;
import org.papervision3d.materials.utils.MaterialsList;
import org.papervision3d.objects.DisplayObject3D;
import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Plane;
import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Sphere;
import org.papervision3d.view.BasicView;
import org.papervision3d.view.layer.ViewportLayer;
import org.papervision3d.view.layer.util.ViewportLayerSortMode;

public class space extends BasicView
{
private var lookAtMe;DisplayObject3D;
private var sphere:Sphere;
private var mouse3D:Mouse3D;
private var plane:Plane;

public function space ()
{
viewport.interactive = true;
mouse3D = viewport.interactiveSceneManager.mouse3D;
Mouse3D.enabled = true;

lookAtMe = new DisplayObject3D();

var bitmapFileMaterial:CompositeMaterial = new CompositeMaterial();
bitmapFileMaterial.interactive = true;
bitmapFileMaterial.doubleSided = true;

sphere = new Sphere(new BitmapFileMaterial(’sky2.jpg’), 400, 12, 12);

var planeMaterial:MaterialObject3D = new ColorMaterial(0xcc0000);
planeMaterial.doubleSided = true;
plane = new Plane(planeMaterial, 50, 50);

var viewportLayer:ViewportLayer = new ViewportLayer(viewport, plane);
viewportLayer.layerIndex = 1;

viewport.containerSprite.sortMode = ViewportLayerSortMode.INDEX_SORT;
viewport.containerSprite.addLayer(viewportLayer);

scene.addChild(plane);

camera.z = -300;
camera.target = lookAtMe;

scene.addChild(sphere);

startRendering();

Mouse.hide();

}

override protected function onRenderTick(event:Event=null):void
{
lookAtMe.x += (mouse3D.x – lookAtMe.x) * .009;
lookAtMe.y += (mouse3D.y – lookAtMe.y) * .009;

plane.copyTransform(mouse3D);

super.onRenderTick(event);
}
}
}

please let me know i have done wrong.

Do you have some examples for flex?

Many thanks
Sacen

Thanks
Sacen

lookAtMe.z += (mouse3D.z - lookAtMe.z) * .03;

But you’ll have to manage/limit the movement yourself since the axis of the camera will get all screwy. For example, imagine you want to look at something behind you. And instead of turning around like a normal human would, you do a back-bend so you now see everything upside-down. Then something is in front of you, so you turn around normally, but everything is still upside-down. A whole bunch of those types of problems creep in when you just let the camera follow the mouse. So if you just use that line above, expect weird stuff to happen