Adobe Director Basics

ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS
3D basics
The position of vertex 1 after the cube has been moved and rotated
As before, use the Rotate Camera tool to look at the cube from all sides.
In this movie, the cube can be imagined with respect to two different frames of reference: model space and world space.
The first vertex in the model resource's vertexList is still at vector(25, -25, -25), when it is seen from the model's
point of view. Because of the altered position of the model in the 3D world, the same point is now at a different point
when it is seen in world space. (See the orange circle). The output in the Message window indicates the position of the
vertex in world space: vector(59.1506, -50.0000, -9.1506).
Using the debug property of a model
Type the statement below into the Message window.
member("3D World").model("Cube").debug = TRUE
When you do so, Director displays:
The x-, y- and z-axes for the model
The model's boundingSphere. This is the smallest sphere that can contain all the vertex points in the model.
The image below shows the result. Note that the statement shown in the Message window has exactly the same effect
as the statement quoted above.
Last updated 8/26/2011
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