Hi,

I would like to render a view using code on the timeline of a flash file.

Right now I am using the following code:

which renders nothing but when used in a DocumentClass it renders the Sphere no problem. I would greatly appreciate some advice on how to make it work when written on a flame on the timeline and no within a DocumentClass. A link to a tutorial would be ok as well but I have not found anything on it after extensive searches.

I attached the DocumentRoot class which was downloaded from a tutorial online.

Also like to know if possible when a book on Away3d 4 will come out.

Thank you.

The main difference between the two files is that the ‘Document Class’ adds an enter frame event listener so it is calling view.render() at the framerate of your SWF.

In your timeline code, view.render() only gets called once.  You should add an enter_frame handler and call view.render() each frame.

Thanks man, it worked but I don’t really understand something. I dropped a stop() in there and one view.render() without the EnterFrame should be enough to render the scene once, is that not right? Does it disappear or not get rendered if I only call view.render() once? I am confused about why this does not work.

I have run into this myself.
The scene has to be initiated on the GPU before it’s ready to be rendered.
Though in theory you would expect this to happen in one frame cycle and what you’ve done is perfectly logical. In practice though, you need to initialize your scene in one frame, and render in the next, as the scene is rendered as the frame is ENTERED.
If you want a single frame, you could use a Timer that only fires once.

Good Luck!

Hey Atom,

thank a lot for the info. Clears things up .