Hello,

I used Prefab to export object as an AS3 Class for away4.0

I wanted to reuse Geometry to create dozens of objects from that class but clone is not working.

Am I missing something here or should I export Object differently or with AwayBuilder for this kind of usage?

I want to reuse the same object mupltiple of wimes with best performance possible?

Material is also the same for all objects, all I change is UV on it.

You need to loop over the object meshes array to access your meshes.
During the loop you can check names.

for instance, you can do something like this:
new Mesh(AS3Obj.meshes[0].geometry, AS3Obj.meshes[0].material);

Note that If you change UV’s, its not the same geometry.

Thank you.

If changing UVs is changing the geometry, how is it possible to have one spritesheet that has different faces and just navigate to different part of spritesheet for different objects?

I have 12 objects that are all the same except up until now I was mapping to a different UV for different image.

In order to keep geometry unchanged, reuse material and define for animators. Look at the SpriteSheet tutorial (digital clock part) that I’ve posted a few weeks ago.

While I was looking at the tutorial one thing came to my mind.
I am not changing the UVs on the objects, all I do is animating UV by changing offsetU and offsetV.

So the question is if I use
new Mesh(AS3Obj.meshes[0].geometry, AS3Obj.meshes[0].material);
and then change offsetU/V on one Mesh, would it be changed on all the others too?

yes. thats why SpriteSheetMaterial/SpriteSheetAnimator approach is better. Because it doesn’t alter source uv’s. Sharing these would work, but all your meshes would display same cell of the sheet. While assigning same material but different animator would not, because the agal behind doesn’t affect the uv’s of the geometry, while what you do, using offsetU and V, affects the geometry, and since you want to reuse, you affect all the meshes sharing the same geometry.
Even if you need to have more animators or more materials, as they can share textures and animationSets, it will be way lighter than having new geometries.

Your help and explanation is great