Adobe Director Basics

ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS
3D: Controlling action
on SetView(me, aFloorName) --------------------------------------
-- INPUT: should be one of the symbols used as a
-- property name in pViewList
-- ACTION: Sets the transform and projectionAngle of the
-- camera to recreate the preset view
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vViewData = pViewList[aFloorName]
vPosition = vViewData.position
vRotation = vViewData.rotation
vProjectionAngle = vViewData.projectionAngle
vTransform = transform()
vTransform.position = vPosition
vTransform.rotation = vRotation
pCamera.transform = vTransform
pCamera.projectionAngle = vProjectionAngle
end SetView
If you click inside one of the rooms which has a preset view associated with it, the SetView() handler will be called. For
more details on how this is achieved, see “Picking” on page 242.
Following a pre-defined path
To create a fly-through of a scene, you may want to provide a pre-defined path that the visitor can follow. To see a
demonstration, download and launch the movie FixedPath.dir.
The camera follows a track
The monorail track for the FixedPath.dir movie was created in 3ds Max. The track represents a spline which passes
through a number of points in space. The designer exported the position of each of the points in the spline from 3ds
Max as a text file. The beginning of the file looks like this:
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