Hi,

In my application I need my users to throw a dice.

I’m using the code published on http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d/throwing-dice-with-the-jiglib-physics-engine-and-away3d/ .

This all works fine, and I really love the effect, but I can’t find any method to calculate what face is on top after the dice has been thrown.

In the comments someone posts a solution, but this only works with Away3D 3.6, and I’m using 2.3.3. It depends on the deltaTransformVector of the Matrix3D. I can’t find the equivalent of this method in 2.3.3.

Does someone has a solution to find the top faced material after the dice rotation, that works in 2.3.3?

This is for away4 and awayPhysics

For 3.6 you can use

Matrix3DUtils.getforward(yourMesh.transform)
instead of
diceRb.front etc

Just change the top face numbers to how you have your material mapped to the die.

Thanks for your reply.

Ah, how I was wrong. The example is using Away 2.3.3 for Flash Player 9. I tried to port the example code to 3.6, but all the sudden only two of the six materials are placed on all the six faces. They are using the following code to apply the materials to the faces. This should work in 3.6 too, right?

  Cube(Away3dMesh(dice.skin).mesh).cubeMaterials.left = diceTextures[0] 
  Cube(Away3dMesh(dice.skin).mesh).cubeMaterials.right = diceTextures[1] 
  Cube(Away3dMesh(dice.skin).mesh).cubeMaterials.front = diceTextures[2] 
  Cube(Away3dMesh(dice.skin).mesh).cubeMaterials.back = diceTextures[3] 
  Cube(Away3dMesh(dice.skin).mesh).cubeMaterials.top = diceTextures[4] 
  Cube(Away3dMesh(dice.skin).mesh).cubeMaterials.bottom = diceTextures[5]