Skewing a movie clip using 3D rotation tool

Question

Check out the swf below.  I'm trying to skew the images as they approach the edges of the screen.  My goal is to create a 3D effect so the images appear to be falling back to a vanishing point.  Any suggestions?  

Answer 1

If you're using the timeline to animate the rotation instead of code just add in some frame scripts at the appropriate time to swap children. The easiest thing to do is to set a childs index to the top of the stack.
In a timeline script where you know, for example, image_5 is coming around and you want it to be in the front, you could do something like this:
// move image_5 to the top of the display list
carousel_mc.swapChildren(carousel_mc.image_5,carousel_mc.getChildAt(carousel_mc.numChildren - 1));
Not trying to make it overly complex but where you put the code matters. If you put it inside your carousel itself (I'm loosely calling carousel_mc in my examples) then you'd replace "carousel_mc" with "this", e.g.:
this.swapChildren(image_5,this.getChildAt(this.numChildren - 1));
Sprinkle those on the timeline where you know any specific image is supposed to be front facing.
If you're rotating the carousel via code then you'll just need to pay attention to the rotation property and at specific points run this same type of code to position the image stack correctly.