[Golist] Sneek peak at DepthTween

[Moses Gunesch]

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On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Joel Stransky wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback Donovan! It's been fun to develop so far  
> thanks to Moses but I sense there's even more power I could leverage  
> so I'll be hitting you guys up for tips soon.
>
> I think I'll add a toggle for upper left and mid/center locations. A  
> lot of trouble could be saved if I could just figure out a way to  
> add dynamic methods to all Display Objects.
>
> --Joel
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:49 PM, donovan at hydrotik.com <donovan at hydrotik.com 
> > wrote:
> This is great Joel! Very useful.
>
> Personally I would go for a center/middle registration point just  
> because it's standard with most 3D environments, but some conversion  
> methods would definitely be useful:)
>
> Looking forward to seeing what comes of this.
>
> Donovan
>
>
>
> On 6/23/08 8:10 PM, "Joel Stransky" <joel at stranskydesign.com> wrote:
>
> Hey peeps,
> My first Go package is finally taking shape. It's very early in  
> development but I couldn't wait to show you all.
> I really wanted to have this done in time for flashbelt but hey,  
> maybe next time. :)
> DepthTween is a 2.5D position manager. It basically manages a list  
> of objects and updates their stacking order when any of their draw()  
> methods are called.
> You first create an instance of DepthManager and pass a  
> DisplayObjectContainer. Children of that DOC can then be initialized  
> and have 3d tween methods called on them.
>
> http://lab.stranskydesign.com/depthTween.html
>
>
> Currently I'm struggling with what form of virtual x and virtual y  
> to go with. The goal of the class is to simply add a z property to  
> existing DisplayObjects. Currently I'm using a right-hand system  
> which makes calling 3dtweens a little weird if you're not used to  
> thinking in 3d as an objects 0,0,0 point becomes the center of the  
> DisplayObjectContainer and half way between the foreground and  
> background instead of the upper left corner like we're used to.
>
> The catch is, if I keep x and y relative to the upper left corner  
> (reverse cartesian), you still have to get used to thinking in terms  
> of those coordinates augmented by z-depth.
>
> I've got a lot of planned features and although it's very early I'd  
> appreciate any feedback/questions/suggestions.
>
>
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