Rolling a sphere with the keyboard
Jim Foley pinged me and said he’s running a contest about creating a pv3d soccer ball:
http://madvertices.yuku.com/topic/11/master/1/?page=1
The contest made me think up this little example (make sure you click on the .swf to give it keyboard focus):
package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.KeyboardEvent; import flash.ui.Keyboard; import org.papervision3d.core.math.Matrix3D; import org.papervision3d.core.math.Number3D; import org.papervision3d.lights.PointLight3D; import org.papervision3d.materials.shadematerials.FlatShadeMaterial; import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Sphere; import org.papervision3d.view.BasicView; [SWF(width="640", height="480", backgroundColor="#000000", frameRate="60")] public class RollingASphereWithTheKeyboard extends BasicView { private static const UP:Number3D = new Number3D(0, 1, 0); private var sphere:Sphere; private var velocity:Number3D = new Number3D(); private var friction:Number = .98; private var isDown:Boolean = false; private var isUp:Boolean = false; private var isLeft:Boolean = false; private var isRight:Boolean = false; public function RollingASphereWithTheKeyboard() { //move camera up to look down on sphere camera.y = 300; //create a faux horizon line var whiteBackground:Sprite = new Sprite(); whiteBackground.graphics.beginFill(0xeeeeee); whiteBackground.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, width, 140); whiteBackground.graphics.endFill(); addChildAt(whiteBackground, 0); var light:PointLight3D = new PointLight3D(); var flatShadeMaterial:FlatShadeMaterial = new FlatShadeMaterial(light, 0xcc0000, 0x222222); sphere = new Sphere(flatShadeMaterial, 100, 16, 8); scene.addChild(sphere); startRendering(); stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownHandler); stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyUpHandler); } private function keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void { switch(event.keyCode) { case Keyboard.DOWN: isDown = true; break; case Keyboard.UP: isUp = true; break; case Keyboard.LEFT: isLeft = true; break; case Keyboard.RIGHT: isRight = true; break; } } private function keyUpHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void { switch(event.keyCode) { case Keyboard.DOWN: isDown = false; break; case Keyboard.UP: isUp = false; break; case Keyboard.LEFT: isLeft = false; break; case Keyboard.RIGHT: isRight = false; break; } } override protected function onRenderTick(event:Event=null):void { if(isDown) velocity.z -= .5; if(isUp) velocity.z += .5; if(isLeft) velocity.x -= .5; if(isRight) velocity.x += .5; //gradually slow down velocity velocity.multiplyEq(friction); sphere.x += velocity.x; sphere.z += velocity.z; //where the ball is headed var distance:Number = Math.sqrt(velocity.x * velocity.x + velocity.z * velocity.z); //Since the ball is rolling around back, forth, left, right //it's rolling on the "XZ plane". Ignore the ball and think how //the XZ plane would rotate around the y-axis (just like rotationY) //which is defined here as "UP". So you find the "cross" (the axis //the ball will rotate around) by finding where the ball //is heading and the axis the of the plane the ball is rolling on. //I hope that makes sense :) var rotationAxis:Number3D = Number3D.cross(velocity, UP); rotationAxis.normalize(); //create a matrix from the axis and the angle var rotationMatrix:Matrix3D = Matrix3D.rotationMatrix(rotationAxis.x, rotationAxis.y, rotationAxis.z, distance/100); //apply the rotation to the ball sphere.transform.calculateMultiply3x3(rotationMatrix, sphere.transform); super.onRenderTick(event); } } }
3 Comments to Rolling a sphere with the keyboard
Why do objects become distorted towards the edges? I’m having a lot of trouble with this and have failed to find a solution. I was kinda thinking it had something to do with the focus value, as I seem to recall focus affecting perception similarly in earlier versions of pv3d, but it doesn’t do the trick now.
/Enso
May 25, 2009
How to import Collada model instead of this ball?
please let me know the AS codes for that,
Thanks
June 4, 2009
矿用调度机,生产各类矿用调度机,杭州华络通信设备有限公司
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