Spining a model on a touchscreen

Question

Hello I have another question related to 3D.
I made a little modification to the behavior automatic model
rotation, I added this block:(default rotation speed 0(pSpeed))
-- CONTROL ROTATION -----------------
<<<<<<<<<<<<<
on mouseUp me
if _mouse.mouseLoc > _mouse.clickLoc then
testTest = pSpeed - 1
pSpeed = testTest - 1
else
testTest = pSpeed + 1
pSpeed = testTest + 1
end if
Also added a property called testTest. On the stage I have a
3d Member which contains a simple box :
beginSprite me
sprite(me.spriteNum).member.resetWorld()
-- create the model resource
myModelResource =
sprite(me.spriteNum).member.newModelResource("My Box
Resource",#box)
myModelResource.height = 10
myModelResource.width = 20
myModelResource.length = 100
-- create the model
myModel = sprite(me.spriteNum).member.newModel("My
Box",myModelResource)
-- rotate to see it better
sprite(me.spriteNum).member.model("My Box").rotate(45,45,0)
end
The short block that I added to the [automatic model
rotation] sets the deafult speed to 0, then everytime I touch the
screen and move from left to right or right to left the 3d model
spins following the direction. This works well, BUT only on the
lower half, if I do the same thing on the upper half, the resulting
movement is the opposite. I've been trying to solve this, and I
guess it must me simple, but I cannot figure it out.
Any comments? ... please.

Answer 1

Post Author: debdeb
CA Forum: Xcelsius and Live Office
Are these 5 models inter-related? I'd guess no based on your descriptions (and separate .swf can't talk to each other anyway - not with Xcelsius that is). I would just create a .html page and put the 5 .swf objects inside that. That would give the user one page with the five separate models. They would sit on the page like images but be interactive. Create the tabs with css or images and the .swf sits below that as if the are one. The tabs load the respective .swf file.
The example you referred to uses a web page and overlays the 3 .swf files (shown in the title bar as finance1.swf, etc.) These are separate files and not connected to each other (changes in one aren't reflect in the other). An alternate is to use the panel component in 4.5 Pro which lets you view multiple .swf files in one larger view. These are not connected, however so the user would see 'n' number of panes (like a window in your house) each with a separate .swf file. This only looks good if the .swf are small and simple.
On the AnalysisFactory site, they have it for sale and you can see one using a web page front-end, http://analysisfactory.com/af_finance/profit_and_loss.html
Deborah