3D sphere Widget (public beta)

[size:17pt]3D sphere Widget[/size]
I made a simple widget that can place customizable dots around a customizable 3D sphere.
http://czentnar.try.hu/3DsW/3dsw.jpg

This widget generates a 3D sphere that can be rotated with the mouse.
You can customize it with the Alterable Values of the widget:
_DotAtDegree: the number of the dots depends on it. The widget will generate a dot in every X degrees.
_Radius: the radius of the sphere.
_CenterX: X position of the sphere's center.
_CenterY: Y position of the sphere's center.

Downloads:
http://czentnar.try.hu/3DsW/3DsW.mfa - the widget
http://czentnar.try.hu/3DsW/3DsWdemo.exe - demo of the widget
http://czentnar.try.hu/3DsW/3DsWdemo.mfa - source of the demo

http://czentnar.try.hu/3Drotation.exe - preview of the 3D engine, possible variations (these can't be made only with the widget, you have to modify the source code (the widget's behaviour) too!)

If there aren't any problems I will release it as "stable version". ;)
Any comments and suggestions are welcomed! I know, it isn't very useful but it can be used in many cases: it's a sample for 3D rotation, you can make a 3D menu from it...

Very nice! Great work on this! I saw your previous post with the wierd null character, lol, what was that about? Anyway it works pretty well, and I think it's a nice idea.

:) thanks, I don't know what was the problem but you can imagine how frightened I got when I noticed that almost the whole description disappeared... Fortunately, it was in my clipboard.

Excellent job, Czentnar! All your 3D crazy stuff have a guaranteed space in my MMF2 cool examples folder :)

Excellent Czentnar, and thanks.

Marv

Thanks a lot, everybody!

Oh, and thanks Dynamite for the idea! He asked me to make the engine for his project.

This is very cool. :)
Great work!

stephen1980

Great widget, a update idea would be to have the option for lines between the dots so it looks like a wireframe mesh maybe. :D

This is really cool!

Ditto @Atom ;)

With a Radius of 90 & a dot every 8 Degrees, I ended up with having 1 Frames Per Second lol.

It is a good widget but I can find no use for it, can anybody find a use for it? Somebody find a use for it.

I've made proper working spheres with MMF2 using OpenGL, which are faster and less dotty.

Dragon guy, OpenGL is HWA'ed... if you use this widget with HWA you will find faster results.

... And tho i cannot find a use for it :S, i think it's really cool!

Of course there are uses for this. If you're making an RPG, it could be used as a special effect. If you're doing an arcade, you could develop an entire game concept from this, I don't know. Everything's useful :)

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Originally Posted by SEELE

... And tho i cannot find a use for it :S, i think it's really cool!

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Czentnar made this for me because I came up with a rather interesting concept for my game. I new he would be perfect for the job since he's also created the 3D menu widget.

This was initially made only for my project but Czentnar decided to release it as a widget to the public.

Care to share what you use it for?

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Sorry... it's corrected now.
Thanks for the report. :)