FLASH: fake 3d navigation question

[Till Steinmetz]

Hi,


a friend of mine is working on a university project in flash and asked me 

to do a 3d navigation similar to the main menu in "Tomb Raider" (if you 

ever played that game)

The part of rotating and scaling ONE menu items seems simple. (take a look 

at my first approach to the problem at 

http://www.handlanger.de/nav_test.swf  --- btw ---  i cant get rid of the 

flicker that occasionally occurs, are some of the sin/ cos tables found on 

the net inaccurate?)


There are two problems

1. I dont know how to manage the Z Axis problem when i have more than one 

menu item.

2. I'd really like to help him out but actually i don't really have the 

time to figure this out myself...


So my question is, does anyone of you either have an math dummy proof 

explanation of how to do the z-axis limbo or (preferrably) a *.fla file 

where i could steal this navigation concept ?


Check out this Site to see that this (and a lot of other crazy stuff that i 

will not be able to figure out in a 100 years) is possible.

http://www.wireframe.co.za/



Till







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