[Golist] Sneek peak at DepthTween

[Joel Stransky]

Cool man. Yeah hopefully that will be built in. I went ahead and emailed
Richard but haven't heard back. Either way, I have some time before
flashplayer 10 is on enough machines and it's been extremely educational
working with Go. Even knowing ahead of time how easy it would be to
implement easing functions didn't prepare me for how cool it is to seem the
work so quickly.

Now I just need to add the ability to use relative via strings and add
sequencing. Then I can add a bunch of methods like orbitTo().

Oh and in honor of Ladislav, I was thinking of calling this ZGo. :)

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Moses Gunesch <moses at goasap.org> wrote:

> Not shooting down your idea at all, it's very cool – especially for Flash
> Player 9. My guess is that FP10 will probably automate z-sorting since it
> adds 2.5D, including a z property for DisplayObjects.
> m
>
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Joel Stransky wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info Moses. I've known about the 3D coordinates and 3D plane
> (hence why I don't plan on any orientation tweens) but don't see anything in
> the FP10 API mentioning z-sorting. Have you read something saying that will
> be automatic?
>
> Guess I'm not sure if you're shooting me down or saying I should suggest
> z-sorting to adobe. As it stands, it looks like I would need only replace my
> ZObject class with their Matrix3D class when FP10 has a big enough adoption
> rate.
>
> --Joel
>
> P.S. Interestingly, adobe chose to make 0,0,0 the upper left corner.
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Moses Gunesch <moses at goasap.org> wrote:
>
>> Flash 10 adds 2.5D, you should get on their beta. Write to Richard Galvan
>> (galvan at adobe) and be sure to mention your interest in GoASAP in your
>> email.
>> m
>>
>> 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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