hi all, are there a way to get parsed mesh from [embed ...] tag? as I understand using this construction will not provide mesh as result but byte array, so next step is use parser to retreive 3d objects:

what to do next with variable ‘data’?
I saw examples with Loader3D, the data can be loaded and then parsed from callback, but I want not to use callback and return mesh from function that get class name as argument, is this possible?

e.g.:

Loader3D.enableParser(Max3DSParser);
var loader = new Loader3D();
loader.parseData(objclass, null, new AssetLoaderContext(false));

var obj:Mesh = Mesh(loader.getChildAt(0));

what is loader.parseData() method? I use away3d 4, and there are only loadData

You want loadData(). It used to be called parseData() but was renamed to loadData() before Away3D 4 went beta.

var obj:Mesh = Mesh(loader.getChildAt(0));

Try set asset events instead of this above example. As not every parser returns a mesh as child 0. But on assetEvent you can check the type of the asset returned and surely access the element of the file that you want to edit. On complete you can addchild safely the event.currentTarget as ObjectContainer3D

thank you for the answer. yes, if add event listeners the mesh can be get from (ev.target as Loader3D).getChildAt(...), but can I do this without using event handling? the idea is to use single function that take class name of the embedded .3ds file as argument and return mesh from that file, so all parsing actions are done within this function. with approach you mentioned mesh can be get only in event listener function onResourceComplete…

First of all, what Fabrice is referring to is not the RESOURCE_COMPLETE event, but the ASSET_COMPLETE (or even MESH_COMPLETE) events that are fired by the parser for each asset (i.e. each mesh, geometry, material et c respectively.) These events will contain a reference to the asset in the AssetEvent.asset property, allowing you to access it by simple type casting:

myMesh = ev.asset as Mesh;

The short answer to your question however is no. All parsers in Away3D 4.0 are asynchronous, meaning that you cannot rely on it to happen from one line of code to the next. Actually, it should never do that. It works much like the Loader class in Flash, which even if you load embedded files (using Loader.loadBytes()) will be asynchronous. So you need to listen for the RESOURCE_COMPLETE event to know that the resource has finished loading and that all the assets contained within have been parsed.

ok got it, but why? are the parsing procedures too complex? another idea… what about to write extension to use something like:

I mean res will be Loader3D object with contained resources already when new class instanciated

Yes, the parsing procedure is (often) too complex to happen within the 16ms window of a single 60fps frame. Even more so when external dependencies like textures need to be loaded, which inevitably must happen asynchronously.

What you are suggesting is interesting, but again hard to achieve because of the asynchronous nature of parsing a big resource and loading any dependencies.