Flash CS4 - Moving 3d menu following mouse needs limits + clickable buttons behind a movieclip

Hi guys,

Here're my 2 problems:

1-I did a menu moving in 3d following my mouse movement. But i would like it to have a limit of rotation on the left and on the right, cause i don't the user to see the back of the image (the image is rotating 360°right now, i would like it to rotate maybe like 90° or less). Here's the code i am using:

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);

function loop(e:Event):void
{
var xDist:Number = mouseX - stage.stageWidth * 0.5
var yDist:Number = mouseY - stage.stageHeight * 0.5

karate.rotationY -= xDist * 0.001;
karate.rotationX += yDist * 0.0005;


2-My second question is about my menu buttons. I want them to be on lower layer cause it help creating my 3d scene cause sometimes it is a part cover by my image on the top. But the buttons stop to be clickable when they are behind something (even a part behind). I want them to be clickable at all time. The strange thing is i checked out in the forum and a lot of people have the opposite problem... their buttons still work. How can i make mine clickable ?

I would really appreciate your help guys
Thanks
Thevibe

Hi, you could trace rotationX to find out what the cut off values you want are and then use those in an if/else statement i.e.

I'm not saying 90 is the actual figure, that's what you'd have to trace to find out.

If your 3d scene is none mouse interactive then you can the top most display object in its heirarchy to:

this.mouseChildren = fale;
this.mouseEnabled = false;

Which means they will no longer receive mouse events which in turn means your buttons below them will no longer be blocked.

Thanks Tann San,

2-the buttons are include with the image called karate (in the animation below) so i don't think it will work... any other ideas ??

1-Your code did the trick for the rotation limit. But the rotation stop is a bit hard. Do you know a script that i could put after the ''else", that would make play the rotation back to the start or at least restart the moving rotation on X or Y , but still in my boundaries, just to keep it like it is always moving. But as soon as someone would reenter my boundaries it should follow the mouse again... Any ideas ?

Thanks a lot

Here's the new code:

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);

function loop(e:Event):void
{
var xDist:Number = mouseX - stage.stageWidth * 0.5
var yDist:Number = mouseY - stage.stageHeight * 0.5

if((karate.rotationY - (xDist * 0.001) >-10)&&(karate.rotationY - (xDist * 0.001) <10))

karate.rotationY -= xDist * 0.001;

else

karate.rotationY -= xDist * 0.000;

if((karate.rotationX - (yDist * -0.001) >-5)&&(karate.rotationX - (yDist * -0.001) <5))

karate.rotationX -= yDist * -0.001;

else

karate.rotationY -= yDist * 0.000;
}

Hi, you shouldn't need the else clauses with what you have as multiplying by 0.000 is the same as multiplying by 0 which is always 0 which means you are doing rotationX -= 0 which does nothing essentially.

You can't play it backwards since it's linked directly to the mouse position.