Flash Video Tutorial – 3D in Flash CS4

In this tutorial, you'll learn all about the new 3D features included with Flash CS4. The latest release of Flash supports the ability to rotate and move flat objects (movie clips) around in 3D space. In the tutorial, you'll also learn how to animate the 3D rotation of an object using ActionScript's new rotationX, rotationY, and rotationZ properties.

Here is the code for this tutorial:

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, rotate3D);
 
function rotate3D(e:Event):void
{
   sof_mc.rotationX += 4;
   sof_mc.rotationY += 4;
}

User Comments

Stephane

November 20, 2008

Great tutorial but :
3D Movie Clip on the stage is quite easy to understand, but have you tried to use a MovieClip ( named MC for example) with a 3d Movie Clip inside (named MC2). It’s hard to undestand because, if you move the MC on the stage, MC2 will change too !!. Actually, i don’t understand how to really control it. A tutorial ?
PS: sorry for my bad english, i’m french !!

Ryan Henson Creighton

November 27, 2008

Characters are possible. They’re a lot of work, but they’re possible. A 3D model is just a series of flat planes like the one you’re playing with here.

ssj3mohan

November 30, 2008

Ty a lot for tutorial.I am so happy for your help.
I am wacthing all your tutorials .Cya

Kurt

November 30, 2008

Great tutorial, but is there a way to change the X, Y or Z axis with actionscript?

Han

December 3, 2008

I can’t really saw the text of action script from this video. Do you mind to upload the text of action script on the page as well?
anyway, thanks a lot for your chip, It is really helpful for me

Kurt

December 4, 2008

how do people watch this? the camera sucks so much! i can’t see what you are doing man with that sucky camera work.

Hello sir

January 16, 2009

I have one problem with this and that is when you rotate on the y scale ( trying to rotate a playing car on an angle like a diamond)after i go past a certain angel the animation messed up the card does not spin it flips everywhere. anyone wanna help me on that?

Riiich

March 19, 2009

Hey, just to say, great vid. keep it up. i was wondering, is there any way to make 3D models? or should i just use a program like swift 3D to make them? as im using 3D models in flash

Michaelc

April 26, 2009

Very interesting stuff, and not too bad even for newbies. I am interested in developing a flash game (running on osx) designed to be controlled with the wii balance board. Are there any good examples of someone doing that out there?

John

April 29, 2009

Very intersting lesson. I interest in this flash 3d side. Do anyone know any free learning site about image flipping and related stuff?
Thanx for this tutorial.

adssf

May 2, 2009

kanker wat slecht

Phot

July 27, 2009

hello
i did it but have error:
1120: Access of undefined property sof_mc.
help me

Sachin Ghare

December 21, 2009

I like the video. Cool. You can visit my blog i have also mentioned it using video file, ttp://www.sachinghare.com/blog

THX.

3d tutorials

January 9, 2010

It’s really cool video. And cool stuff. I get an idea for my new project from it. Thanks for sharing.

Brian

February 17, 2010

Thanks for taking the time to put this up and including the bit about action script at the end. I dusted off some of my books to dig deeper into what’s possible with flash as a result. Having a great time and see a lot of possibilities. Your tutorial inspired that. So thanks again for taking the time to put it together