True, this feature had been requested and been in desperately needed for 2 years ! that’s a totally amazing feature!

You can always do it this way:

Away3D 4.x - Video mapped onto a plane
Full source and example @
http://www.allforthecode.co.uk/aftc/forum/user/modules/forum/article.php?index=4&subindex=3&aid=331

Away3D 4.x - Video mapped onto many planes on sphere vertices
Full source and example @
http://www.allforthecode.co.uk/aftc/forum/user/modules/forum/article.php?index=4&subindex=3&aid=332

Away3D 4.x - Video mapped onto a panoramic plane cube
Full source and example @
http://www.allforthecode.co.uk/aftc/forum/user/modules/forum/article.php?index=4&subindex=3&aid=334

Away3D 4.x - Video mapped onto a OBJ model
Full source and example @
http://www.allforthecode.co.uk/aftc/forum/user/modules/forum/article.php?index=4&subindex=6&aid=335

You can use VideoTexture for TextureMaterial too.

Video Texture
http://www.away3d.com/livedocs/away3d/4.0/away3d/textures/VideoTexture.html

Thanks for the replies,

however, this is not entirely what I would like to achieve.
In this feature request, I would like to have the opportunity to actually use Flash Movieclips (mc’s) as interactive textures on objects. I know this comes a hard long way, but it was possible as far as I can remember in away 3.6. Due to technical difficulities with Stage3D it is not yet available in away 4.x.

Is there any update on this? I was trying to create myself such a feature but it is way to complicated for my simple mind -.-

-Q

I was just thinking, I should have included your fine to use MC’s instead of Videos from my method but you will loose interactivity.

The old MovieMaterial did work, I often used it myself and I still miss it.

The rendering of the MC to a Plane is easy. Only way I can think of getting interactivity would be to define a hit area on the MC via a rectangle definition 0,0,100,100. Then check MouseEvent3D for uv.coordinates and if they fall within the rect, activate the movieclip while still rendering bitmap data. If the mc is static till triggered by hit area you could save cpu while in this state by passing a flag to the custom class stating update on initialisation only and then on enter frame once MouseEvent3D.CLICK / Over / Out etc has taken place etc and even which part of the mc you want to play.

Darcey - 24 December 2012 09:57 AM

The old MovieMaterial did work, I often used it myself and I still miss it.

The rendering of the MC to a Plane is easy.

Trying to accomplish this but have not yet found any examples other than for 3.6 and might go back to it after reading:

Richard Olsson - 22 August 2012 10:34 AM

Interaction and animation, no. Because that requires frequent uploads of bitmaps to the GPU, which is very slow. It can be done, but not very optimally, so the use cases would be limited which is why we haven’t prioritized this feature.

I do not need animation or video, just intend to build a 2d design window you can place images or draw in and then show the result on a 3d model.
Maybe by converting the movie clip into a bitmap and then using it as texture if that can be done fast enough.

I understand why the Away 3D Team “haven’t prioritized this feature”, even if it makes me sad. But does it mean, that MovieMaterial() will never be accomplished for Away 3D V4?

MovieMaterial?