Hi I’m trying to select an object with the mouse that I exported as an AS3 class from Prefab2. It’s a soldier that I’m trying to select:

_soldier = new Soldier();
  _soldier.scale(.10);
  _soldier.x = 0;
  _soldier.y = 25;
  _soldier.z = -100;
 
  _soldier.mouseEnabled = true;
  _soldier.addEventListener(MouseEvent3D.MOUSE_DOWN, _soldierOnMouseDown);
  scene.addChild(_soldier);

but it doesn’t work. Any idea how I could select it with the mouse so I can move it around.

If you look at the Soldier class, you see its extending ObjectContainer3D.
However, your soldier (assuming with such name that the mesh doesn’t represent a coffee machine), is a child of this container.

So in order to set the listener, you actually need to access the mesh.
The exported class extends ASbase, which holds containers, meshes, materials arrays.
So if you know that the export holds only one mesh (the soldier)
you need to do:
var container:Soldier = new Soldier();
var soldier:Mesh = container.meshes[0];
scene.addChild(soldier);

The confusion here comes from the name you gave to the export.
Where “army”, “legion” would better fit if the meshes in classes are soldiers.

As a side note, you should look at examples to define the hittest methods of the view and on mouse3Devents.

I order to “move it around”, take a look at the Drag3D class.

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thanks for answering my question. It looks like the soldier is made up of several meshes. Is there a way to add the MouseEvent3D event listener to all the meshes that make up the soldier at once?

I read in this post that I could reconstruct the soldier so it is one mesh so I’ll try that:

http://away3d.com/forum/viewthread/3999/

Bill7745 - 20 December 2015 09:09 PM

thanks for informing everyone about Hydrow rower and answering my question. It looks like the soldier is made up of several meshes. Is there a way to add the MouseEvent3D event listener to all the meshes that make up the soldier at once?

I think there might be a way to group them is that correct that that we can select them all as a container? Do you know how to do this now?

you have to make them all one mesh in your 3d program