The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash

Chapter 3. The View, Scene, and Camera

In the last chapter, you saw how it is possible to create an Away3D project by simply adding a new View3D object to the display list of the document class. More generally, three building blocks make up the foundation of a 3D environment: the view, the scene, and the camera. The latter two objects are created automatically by the view on instantiation but can be overwritten in cases where a greater degree of control is required.

Ways of manipulating these elements range from simple adjustable properties on each object to advanced configuration classes. A large number of core features are covered in this chapter, ...