3d E for Carl (and whoever) 2

[coldfused]

indeed..will be looking for it..

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[davdesign]

PRETTY PICTURES:

http://www.pinkzeppelin.com/tektips/3dE/t1.html

should help a little

dave

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[coldfused]

damn dave you are the man...leave that up for a while would ya..i will copy and paste this thread..and give it ago..i mean sheesh, you spent all that time answering a post(that just so you know i wish had been a lot more simple)i should atleast make it work..but i'm sure i will have plenty of stupid questions so be prepared..

thanks again man

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[davdesign]

good luck! ;-)

link will stay indefinitely.

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[coldfused]

ok dave let me get this straight..i'm not actually creating anything in flash as far as drawing the E..by doing it on paper and creating the nodes, x,y,z co-ordinates, and the node to node values you are telling flash to draw the E for you right..by placing these co-ordinates in a string like you do is creating the E..ok so i understand(atleast i hope)how the E is being created..now explain to me how it knows that the line mc you made (which has a line with a stop action in a frame)becomes the axis for the rotation..and what about the rest of the frames in the fla with the actions i think it was 2-10..do those always stay the same..say for instance if i created a cube with new nodes and co-ordinates and pluged them into the variables in the first frame..the cube would appear and rotate..or would the actions from frame 2-10 change?

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[coldfused]

check this out dave..now i have a question?.if i wanted to make the z-axis deeper the what it is i would change the z axis from 020 to something like 080 is that right?

http://www.endangeredgraphics.f2s.com/virt1cube.swf

any way atleast i have the jist of it..now if you will explain to me how it knows that the line you have made in the line mc is there..what exactly does that line do as far as telling flash to create the cube..why the r's inbetween the strings of #'s..is that just to simply break the string up..and once again man your help has been much appreciated..now i can get some cool effects with 3-d while keeping my file size down to nothing..i think i owe you some more coffee..one day!

ps:it's a good thing i just got out of college algebra and it was still fresh in my head..who woulda thunk that all those damn graphing exercises would be usefull again..

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[coldfused]

i found the answer to the z axis question already..man this is awesome..i feel like i did when i was younger and i learned about girls for the first time..

sorry different thread

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[davdesign]

lol !!!

Forget the rest of the actions for now, you don't have to go near them. I'll explain them when I get round to finishing the FAQ. And no, you don't need to change any of these actions if you change the shape, you only need to change the actions I mentioned above.

Nice cube by the way, wasn't too difficult huh?

By the way, did you check out the E3.html link above, I changed the background to a deep-navy blue and it really looks cool, clear your cache and have a look, very nice.

talk to you later, I'm going for big ZZZZzzzzzz'z.

dave

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[coldfused]

yep looks good..but not as good as it's gona look on my site..thanks again dave..

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