Question

I’ve got Flash CS5.5, and I wanted to fiddle around with some 3D, so I downloaded Away3D from the website, and don’t really know how to get it ‘working’ with CS5.5?

Can I just place the folder with my .fla files? Or do I have to setup a actionscript path of some sort?

Also can someone give me a snippet to verify away3d works, as i’ve tried the following code:

package
{
    import away3d.containers.View3D;
    import away3d.primitives.Sphere;
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    [SWF(width="500", height="400", frameRate="60", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF")]
    public class physicas extends Sprite
    {
        public function physicas()
        {
            // create a viewport
            var View:View3D = new View3D({x:250,y:200});
            addChild(View);

            // create a sphere and put it on the 3D stage
            var sphere:Sphere = new Sphere();
            View.scene.addChild(sphere);

            // render the view
            View.render();
        }
    }
}

And I keep getting the output error message:

1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type away3d.containers:Scene3D.

What does this mean?

Thanks alot.

Answer 1

The constructor for the View3D class takes a Scene3D object. Change

var View:View3D = new View3D({x:250,y:200});

to

var scene1:Scene3D = new Scene3D(); 
var View:View3D = new View3D(scene1);

You also need to import the Scene3D class.

import away3d.containers.Scene3D;

You can find the docs here.