I have a mesh loaded from awd2.
MouseEvents are effective on the avatar’s hip position and lower half of the spine. Nowhere else.

What could possibly cause this?

I modified something and used a more proper way for detection. The image shows what’s happending now. The green area is the avatar and the red area is the clickable range. I drew them by hand from what I saw in the app. Not very accurate but shows the rough picture.

In the first post the clickable area was very small. As the black rectangle shows. I don’t know what I’ve changed but it’s big as the red one now.

Looks like a bug with the bounds of the animation (see image)
You can set the view picking to shader and that will get past the issue.
eg
view.mousePicker = PickingType.SHADER;

Got a crash under some EnterFrame. May be in the middle of avatar loading.

event.localPosition = collider.localPosition.clone();
localPosition is null here.

at away3d.core.managers::Mouse3DManager/queueDispatch()[C:\workspace\Away3d\src\away3d\core\managers\Mouse3DManager.as:123]
at away3d.core.managers::Mouse3DManager/fireMouseEvents()[C:\workspace\Away3d\src\away3d\core\managers\Mouse3DManager.as:75]
at away3d.containers::View3D/render()[C:\workspace\Away3d\src\away3d\containers\View3D.as:635]

Should say the above is for 4.1 (DEV).

If your using localPosition, you need to add

myMesh.shaderPickingDetails = true;

You could also ignore all the above and set your own bounding box

eg after addchild
MyMesh.showbounds = true; //just to see
MyMesh.bounds.fromExtremes(-100,-100,-100,100,100,100);

Basically shader will allow you to pick on the mesh of the animation.

But its slower than setting the bounds and using default bounding box picking.

I tried the svn code. But the api changes stopped me there.

Manually setting the bounds worked. But how do I determin the values? Bounds.getMeshBounds(_mesh) gave me the same old large box. And it’s difficult to estimate sizes for all the possible meshes to come.

Thats a good question. I’ve run into that problem myself.

Is there a way to get an up-to-date bounding box of a model thats currently being animated by the gpu? I remember reading a while ago that there wasn’t, but that may have changed with away3d 4.1…

beers