Interactive 3D Object

[youngmj]

Hey Everyone,

I'm looking into creating an interactive 3D object much like this globe:
http://www.etsy.com/geolocator.php#

Does anyone know how this is built? Are they using something like Swift 3D?

Thanks!

[renderhjs]

displacement filter since FLahs 8
its uses a normal or displacement map the distorts the orignal pixel in a way so that in that example they displace spherical.

this guy here
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...5&postcount=45
recently pimped with something like that,- have a look at it- he used sandy functions to get the coordinates