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In a recent post someone said it's not possible to do a 3D skeleton in AS. Well, it is, but with lesser degrees of freedom (of movement) than in "real" 3D.

I just tinkered with this for some 20 minutes. Instead of moving the camera around the tree, I just tilted the earth layer to let it lie flat so it could be rotated around the axis of the tree layers. To make things easy, I created the first bone/vector layer pair, duplicated and flipped it, then duplicated both again, put them into a group and turned this group layer 90°.

http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/baumtest.swf

Since anything on a layer lacks volume, I can't think of a possible purpose for this trick, at least not within my range of styles.

Brilliant effect slowtiger!!!
D.K

Great effect!
I love that tree. It reminds me of Dr. Seuss!

-vern

Nice...
It would look even better with more random animation of curly branches,
and with moving them a bit from each other.

What about this stretchy ends, that side effect of '3D' rotation in AS.
How can that be fixed, faked. It annoys a lot sometimes.

The "stretchy ends" are a result of the virtual wide angle lens of the camera. As far as I have tested the camera zoom tool (5) changes this, but the effect isn't really satisfying. The default value of 60 seems to indicate a wide angle, smaller values give a kind of tele lens. You have to compensate for this with moving your camera further apart from your objects in order to keep them fully visible.

What about this stretchy ends, that side effect of '3D' rotation in AS.
How can that be fixed, faked. It annoys a lot sometimes.

Are you talking about the perspective distortion? I think you can "fix" that by changing the distance of the camera and the zoom.

-vern

Thanks for info both of you. I'll experiment with that some more.