Adobe Director Basics

ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS
3D: Controlling appearance
Default values
By default, the camera of a new #shockwave3d member is set to show a #perspective projection, with a projectionAngle
of 34.5160°. This makes for a natural-looking view.
v3DMember = new(#shockwave3d)
vCamera = v3DMember.camera(1)
put vCamera.projection
-- #perspective
put vCamera.projectionAngle
-- 34.5160
The camera's orthoHeight is already set to a default value, even if it is not yet in use:
put vCamera.orthoHeight
-- 200.0000
A camera created by the member3D.newCamera() function has a different projectionAngle of 30° by default:
vNewCamera = v3DMember.newCamera("Test")
put vNewCamera.projection
-- #perspective
put vNewCamera.projectionAngle
-- 30.0000
put vNewCamera.orthoHeight
-- 200.0000
Examples
The following example changes the projection mode of the camera of sprite(“3D”) to #perspective and sets the
camera's projectionAngle to 30°:
-- Lingo
vCamera = sprite("3D").camera
vCamera.projection = #perspective
vCamera.projectionAngle = 30.0 -- degrees
// JavaScript
vCamera = sprite("3D").camera;
vCamera.projection = symbol("perspective");
vCamera.projectionAngle = 30.0; // degrees
The following example changes the projection mode of the camera of sprite(“3D”) to #orthographic and sets the
camera's orthoHeight to 200:
-- Lingo
vCamera = sprite("3D").camera
vCamera.projection = #orthographic
vCamera.orthoHeight = 200.0 -- world units
// JavaScript
vCamera = sprite("3D").camera;
vCamera.projection = symbol("orthographic");
vCamera.orthoHeight = 200.0; // world units
Multiple cameras
By default, a 3D sprite displays the view from only one camera. Every 3D member has a camera named “Default View”.
The view from this camera fills the entire area of the sprite. In a 3D design application, you can create more than one
camera and export it as an object in the W3D file. You can change the camera that is used to create the main view for
the 3D sprite to any of these cameras.
Last updated 8/26/2011
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