(Flash CS5.5) Basic Away3D setup help

Question

I've got Flash CS5.5, and I wanted to fiddle around with some 3D, so I downloaded Away3D from the website, and don't really know how to get it 'working' with CS5.5?

Can I just place the folder with my .fla files? Or do I have to setup a actionscript path of some sort?

Also can someone give me a snippet to verify away3d works, as i've tried the following code:

package
{
    import away3d.containers.View3D;
    import away3d.primitives.Sphere;
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    [SWF(width="500", height="400", frameRate="60", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF")]
    public class physicas extends Sprite
    {
        public function physicas()
        {
            // create a viewport
            var View:View3D = new View3D({x:250,y:200});
            addChild(View);

            // create a sphere and put it on the 3D stage
            var sphere:Sphere = new Sphere();
            View.scene.addChild(sphere);

            // render the view
            View.render();
        }
    }
}

And I keep getting the output error message:

1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type away3d.containers:Scene3D.

What does this mean?

Thanks alot.

Check which version of Away3D you use. This error might happen if you use Away3DLite instead of Away3D. — Miha, Nov 20 '11 at 23:25
Are you using newest versions that target Flash Player 11? If so, have you done other stuff to update Flash Pro CS5.5 to know how to publish for FP11? — fenomas, Nov 21 '11 at 03:12
I believe I have FP 11 initialized for CS5.5 yes, and yeah defo Away3D. — James Andrew, Nov 21 '11 at 08:59

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '11 at 13:44

The constructor for the View3D class takes a Scene3D object. Change

var View:View3D = new View3D({x:250,y:200});

to

var scene1:Scene3D = new Scene3D(); 
var View:View3D = new View3D(scene1);

You also need to import the Scene3D class.

import away3d.containers.Scene3D;

You can find the docs here.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 22 '11 at 16:34

Here's a short tutorial on the topic of creating a Away3D scene: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/creating-games-away3d.html

It's on Flash Builder but the code is he same both for flash and flash-builder the difference is just where you put your imports. If you don't know about that just edit the publish preferences under the actionscript settings.

Cheers!

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '13 at 06:01

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We just need to import the class to our fla files using the code

import [foldername]/.../[className];

... to make our flash file optimize, import only the class needed.

answered Apr 30 '13 at 06:01

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