RE: [flexcoders] Game Depth Management

[Nihit Saxena]

I am working on something similar (3D Charts) for Flex 3.0. A prototype for the same can be seen here   http://www.geocities.com/nihits/columnC.html http://mannu.livejournal.com/357113.html   The depths are kept in a sorted list based on distance from viewer (and not based on Z coordinate value)   Nihit     From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralf Bokelberg Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:23 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Game Depth Management   I think, you have to create your own depth property and keep the displaylist sorted by this property. So, instead of swapping the depth, you need to find the place in the displaylist, where a object with a certain depth has to be inserted. Cheers, Ralf. On 8/1/06, John Chipps-Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi: I have just started using Flex Builder 2 and am finding authoring Actionscript 3.0 projects a dream. I am having issues getting my head round the new way of managing depths. Specifically in an isometric game I am porting to AS3. Here is a snippet of code that shifts a sprite to a specific depth: _sprite.swapDepths( int(newX + (newY * 900)) ); The important thing here is that I am swapping to a SPECIFIC depth... so when other movieclips redraw and swap depth they are placed in the correct depth relative to the others. This is very loose (you could have movieclips at depth 100,000 easily) but is worked fine in AS2. Has anybody got any ideas on how to approach this in AS3? If you think my question is too vague let me know and ill try to elaborate more. Regards: John -- Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Flex & Flash Consultant based in Cologne/Germany __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___