Importing 3d tga files in to Flash??

[itchy finger]

Hi,

I have some really nice 3d animation (not sure what it was created in) which has been supplied to me as exported .tga files.

A particle 3d animation has been supplied to me in 610 single stills so as you can imagine when I import it into flash the SWF file size is large in fact it is around 80mb.

Does anyone have any suggestions i.e. use a specific flash plugin for .tga files or suggest the 3d animation be exported as a different format??

I wanted to add each still to a separate frame so that I can control the animation.

I'm really not sure so any suggestions would be a big help.

Cheers

[dukeufan4]

I have no experience with 3d files in Flash, but have faced a similar situation. I created a program to "spin" an image of a product. There were actually 180 images (one image for every 2 degrees of rotation), and I DID NOT want to import one image to each frame. I renamed all of the photos in sequential order (image_1, image_2,...) and then had the images load depending on the location of what I called the "mover" in relation to the "slider_bar". It looked similar to this:

var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(container);

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loadImage);

function loadImage(ev:Event):void{
while(container.numChildren>0){
container.removeChildAt(0);
}
var pos:uint = ((mover.x-slider_bar.x)/slider_bar.width)*180;
var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("images/image_"+pos+".jpg");
var ldr.load(url);
container.addChild(ldr);
} 

[itchy finger]

Thanks, I've tried this but for some reason it doesn't like it. Do you have a sample FLA you could supply?

[dukeufan4]

I no longer have the one with 180 images, it now belongs to the client I made it for. Here is one I threw together really quickly this morning. Hope it helps you.

Just add a slider from Window>Components to your library and here is the AS3 code:

import fl.controls.Slider;
import fl.events.SliderEvent;

var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
container.x = 125;
container.y = 15;
var slider:Slider = new Slider();
slider.x = 50;
slider.y = 350;
slider.minimum = 0;
slider.maximum = 7;
slider.width = 450;
slider.snapInterval = 1;
slider.tickInterval = 1;
slider.liveDragging = true;
addChild(slider);
addChild(container);

var initLdr:Loader = new Loader();
var initUrl:URLRequest = new URLRequest("images/0.jpg");
initLdr.load(initUrl);
container.addChild(initLdr); 

I also attached a folder of 8 images. Just save it in the same location as your fla.