As in the title, I have an embedded font being used by a Flex Label that is overlaying a View3D. The label disappears after I call view.render(). I have other Labels with the same font that use glow effects and these render fine. It seems that only the normal labels using the font disappear once the View3D renders.  If I change the font to a normal font, I do not get this problem, but I would like to use my embedded font. Anyone know what is going on?

I think this is just a bug with the projector flash player. The 3D + text seems to work fine in the browser.

Hi Stephen;

I’m afraid I’m here to ask for advice rather than give it.  I’ve been eyeing several 3d open source platforms for use in some data visualization projects.  Because of the nature of the project the labeling functionality is one of the most important features for me.  How to you find away3d to be in this regard?  Any advice on what to read?  I’m looking to do animations of growth (population, purchases) consisting of just edges and nodes, where most every node would need to be clearly labeled.

Thx for any advice,

Mark

Away3D has 3D text and sprite capabilities and is fairly easy to pick up I think. Its definitely one of the better engines. Spark:Label with custom fonts worked fine if my program ran in the browser, as I said in my previous post. It’s probably just a bug from adobe.

Even without tutorials, making a scene and viewing it only takes a few lines

view = new View3D()
view.scene.addChild(new Sphere())

yourSprite.addChild(view)

//assume view added to stage
view.render()
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As for other engines, I plan to take a look at/try minko whenever I have time.

Thanks!