Away 3D – Constructing A Sphere

So I decided to play around with Away 3D and after a brief review it seems very cool. Looking through the Lessons that they provide I decided to take the lesson’s code out of the timeline and place them in a class file. Here is the first demo of the sphere.

Here is the document class – note that I originally was using a Mouse Event instead of the ENTER_FRAME event, but it would not work, so once I used the ENTER_FRAME event everything seemed fine. :

package
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import away3d.containers.*;
	import away3d.core.base.*;
	import away3d.primitives.*;
	import away3d.core.math.*;

	public class SphereDemo extends Sprite
	{
		private var sphere:Object3D;
		private var view:View3D;

		public function SphereDemo()
		{
			// create a 3D-viewport
			// our movie is 700 x 700
			view = new View3D({x:350, y:350});

			// add viewport to the stage
			addChild(view);

			// create a sphere
			sphere = new Sphere({material:"red#cyan", radius:500, segmentsW:12, segmentsH:9, y:50, x:10, z:10});

			// add the sphere to the scene
			view.scene.addChild(sphere);

			// point camera at the sphere
			view.camera.position = new Number3D(1000, 1000, 1000);
			view.camera.lookAt(sphere.position);

			// create motion
			addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, Timeline);
		}

		private function Timeline(e:Event):void
		{
			sphere.rotationY = mouseX / 2;
			sphere.rotationX = mouseY / 2;

			// re render
			view.render();
		}

	}
}