I want to display a View3D in the major screen and have a small popup preivew View3D panel. I tried but it seems the small popup review View3D panel cover the major screen. Does anyone know how to do it?

Thx

Maybe looking at MultiViewTest.as in the examples will give you some ideas?

Thx, Somokon. It works.
But I am dealing a more complicate case.
My case is using away3d inside Flex Spark.
I try to put first View3D in the Background and try to open a popup with the second View3D.

The first View3D work when I wrap it inside SpriteVisualElement. When I try the same way using popup, the second View3D draw on the first View3D and cover it.

Any solution? thx

=================Code=================
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx=“http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009”
    xmlns:s=“library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark”
    xmlns:mx=“library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx”
    xmlns:sh=”*”
    width=“640” height=“480” frameRate=“60”
    backgroundAlpha=“0”    applicati>
<fx:Script>
  <![CDATA[
  import mx.events.FlexEvent;
  import mx.managers.*;
 
  protected function handler(event:FlexEvent):void
  {
  var 3d:SomeView3d= new SomeView3d();
  cont.addChild(3d);
 
  var pop:SomePopup= new SomePopup();
  PopUpManager.addPopUp(pop, this, false);
  }
 
  ]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:SpriteVisualElement id=“cont”>
</s:Application>
=================Code=================

=================Popup Code=================
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>
<s:TitleWindow xmlns:fx=“http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009”
    xmlns:s=“library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark”
    xmlns:mx=“library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx” width=“381” height=“258” title=“Popup”    creati>
<fx:Script>
  <![CDATA[
  import mx.events.FlexEvent;
  import mx.managers.*;
 
  protected function handler(event:FlexEvent):void
  {
  var 3d:SomeView3d= new SomeView3d();
  cont.addChild(3d);
  }
  ]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:SpriteVisualElement id=“cont”>
</s:TitleWindow>
=================Popup Code=================

Anyway can help me for the “more complicate case”? thx

Hi everybody and hi jtopaz! How are you?
So, I think we are facing quite the same problem, jtopaz. I need to transform a render in a texture or, in this case, in a bitmapData.
I was planning to capture images from a camera, set it in a material and set this material in a Sprite3D, then I found a method in the Away3D (v.3.5.0) docs(http://away3d.com/livedocs/3.5.0_lib/away3d/core/render/BitmapRenderSession.html) that does exactly what I need (“getBitmapData(view:View3D):BitmapData”). But I couldn’t find it neither in later docs(v.4.0 Beta) and neither in the Away3D files.
So, can anyone tell me if this method gonna be in this version or another way else to solve this problem?
Thanks for your time.

Anyone have a suggestion?

jtopaz > I think your problem is that Spark is designed to manage members of the flash displaylist, and not Molehill windows that have a separate life below the display list. So when you move a pop-up window, it’s not going to move the Molehill window automatically.
In Molehill you would use Stage3D[0].x and Stage3D[0].y as well as setting the size of the backBuffer in Context3D.
With Away3D you can set the size and width of the window. Try setting the size and position of the Away3D view, every time you position or move your floating window.

HowlingBard > until recently you could get the back buffer directly in Away3D using

which would draw the window contents into the specified BitmapData.
(I used it for test at the end of july http://videometry.net/broomstick/transparentMolehill/ )
I can see this no longer works in the more recent builds of Away3D 4.0 and should be reported as a bug. (I’ll get on to that

Good Luck!

To get it working, add this function to RenderBase.as in your away directory (or wait for update

I’ve no idea why they removed it in the last month.
You need to set swapBackBuffer to false and render the scene just before you take the snapshot.
Something like:

Anybody have an idea why context is no longer public?

theMightyAtom, thank you so much!
It’s working very well!

Hi, muflo. Well, I don’t understand your problem. What you didn’t find? Could you explain it with more details, please?

_view.renderer.swapBackBuffer = false;
_view.render();
_view.stage3DProxy.context3D.drawToBitmapData(bitmapHolder.bitmapData);
_view.renderer.swapBackBuffer = true;

Seems to work.

I also encountered a similar problem at the bottom, I display ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer loaded pictures titlewindow display 3d This when ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer picture block the 3d display away to see, do not know how to solve this?