3D sphere example for SortaCore

[SEELE]

This example displays a 3D sphere which you can play with.

-Commented
-Requires no extensions (so can be used with the demo)

Enjoy.

[Johnny]

looks very nice !

Good Job

[LB]

Very nice, SEELE! Now, if only I could figure out how to scale the dots for better perception depth...

[Phi]

wow...that's not really what I wanted, but it's quite amazing :grin:
I was thinking of text-based sphere. In a ad pane I once saw, a bunch of hyperlinks were hovering in a sphere shape. When I put my mouse on one, the sphere would rotate until the hovered-over one was closest to the screen.
This example is useful as well though

[SEELE]

Yep I've seen it also.

I used actives to be generic, try positioning strings to follow the actives.

As far as mouse hovering; it should be easy, just 'set' rotate based on mouse position instead of 'add' rotation.

Also thanks for the nice feedback Johnny and LB.

At LB, scaling is easy;

+ Zposition > camz
- scale = 1.0 / (Zposition - camz)

[Czentnar]

It's really nice, SEELE! I think it's better than mine was. The one I made some months ago was slower, I don't know why.
Thanks to Nivram, my example is available on his website:
http://www.castles-of-britain.com/mmf2examplespage10.htm

[SEELE]

Hey Czentnar,

Thanks and, nice example too! i was able to speed it up alot with a few tweaks.

Change:

+Always
-Run loop 'cube1', 9 times

--To--

+Always
-Run loop 'cube1', 1 times

Also there are dots on-top of each-other...

Latitude only works between -90 and 90 so some are being positioned identically.

Also the turning loop is very wasteful; the 'Move'(rotate) loop is called 640 times a frame (Thirty-two thousand times a second) mostly with nothing todo, an exit loop could fix that; but i would remove the loop and replace it's actions with an expression.

[Czentnar]

Wow, you're really a professional. Thanks a lot!
I will change it if I'll have some time.

[Tymon]

For scalling:
+Always
Object "Point" (2.6+(2*Zposition( "Point" )))/CamZ

[CrazyMLC]

Holy cow! This is absolutely mind blowing!
I didn't even think you could even do something like this in MMF2, not to mention without using extensions!

Time to pick the mfa apart, condition by condition.