I’ve been playing around with it and I want to be able to ‘walk around’ the cube in 3d space but I cannot seem to move the cube along the z axis, making appear closer or further away.

Have you any information on how I might implement this type of ‘camera’ and what matrix transformation’s need to take place?

Thanks,
Iain.

This is great stuff and worthy of study. Just wanted to direct your attention to a more general discussion of the CS4 3D rendering topic, as raised by Keith Peters (bit101) – seems there is the degradation of graphics at high z depths, due to bitmap rendering – this is a real bummer for designers…something of a surprise too….

the discussion was added to by one of the original software engineers at Adobe (Cnuuja) suggesting workarounds – was thinking you might have the time to read and perhaps contribute to some kind of workaround – seems a lot of people are surprized at the render to bitmap feature.

As the article discusses, graphics/shapes suffer as a result – in the case of ‘hairline’ outlines at high z values – they simply disappear – Cnuuja (from adobe) offers explanation and suggests several workarounds, expecailly using the flash.geom.Utils() methods – your thoughts?

here is the link
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1674

cheers
john