Comments on: Z-sorting 3D DisplayObjects for Flash Player 10

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:46:41 +0000

Nice solution, thanks for posting!

By: Cron

Cron — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:03:25 +0000

@Philip van Allen Wow - never would have figured that one out. Thanks Philip!

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By: Tonny

Tonny — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:37:11 +0000

Thank you!It helped me!

By: drew

drew — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:55:30 +0000

I don’t think I have the demo source still, but it would be easy enough to recreate it if necessary. Is your object on the display list? Otherwise stage will be null.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:11:18 +0000

Can you give the source of a working example? I’m also getting a null value for transform = doc.transform.getRelativeMatrix3D( doc.stage ); even though 3D properties have indeed been set on my doc

By: mikeccuk

mikeccuk — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:08:08 +0000

Hi im new to AS3
I saved the code above as engine.as file, import engine; on the first line
I added a 3d cube made in a symbol
made a frame 2 -> 1 loop
//
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,newlooper);

function newlooper(event:Event){
this.obj1.rotationX=mouseX
this.obj1.rotationY=mouseY

}
///

I dont see the sorting work at all. The box still see inside out.
Any ideas?

By: drew

drew — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:22:25 +0000

what is the error you’re getting? compile-time or run-time? a couple assumptions are made that could result in a run-time error. 1) the DisplayObjectContainer is on the display list. 2) as in Philip’s comments above, that a 3D property has been set on the DisplayObjectContainer.

By: flashmad

flashmad — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:10:58 +0000

Thanks. I am using CS3 to publish as Fp10 3D . Your Sorting code shows error in it. Should i get CS4 or is there any trick?

By: Philip van Allen

Philip van Allen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:38:50 +0000

@Philip van Allen

Okay, here’s a workaround. It seems the DisplayObjectContainer must have its “z” property set explicitly. Drew’s code works in Flash 10.02 if you insert the following line

doc.z = doc.z;

Before this line

transform = doc.transform.getRelativeMatrix3D( doc.stage );