Thanks, Shigil

Alternately I could post it, but I’m not looking to take any traffic from here.

I actually got it working acceptably and just hadn’t had time to update this page. (truth be told I got caught up in playing with changing markers etc.)

Here are the changes I had to make to get the code working; first I just added the current swc’s for tweener and papervision3d to my project.
(tweener 1_31_74; Papervision3D_2.0.869)

next in GlobeView.as I did the following (thanks to anyone who posted code above; I made some slight corrections, but these were all the changes that were necessary to amke this work the same or very very close):

**changed a protected class variable
// protected var longitudeDegreeOffset:Number = 15;
protected var longitudeDegreeOffset:Number = 0;

**changed function onRenderTick
//Set the target rotation properties for the camera based on the mouse position.
// var rotationY:Number = -( -mouseX – globeMouseDiffX );
//var rotationX:Number = -( mouseY – globeMouseDiffY );
var rotationY:Number = ( -mouseX – globeMouseDiffX );
var rotationX:Number = ( mouseY – globeMouseDiffY );

//Set a maximum amount that the camera can rotate around the x-axis.
// rotationX = rotationX > 10 ? 10 : rotationX 225 ? 225 : rotationX < 140 ? 140 : rotationX;

//Reposition the camera away from the globe and null object.
// camera.moveBackward( 360 );
camera.moveBackward( 1200 );

**changed function mousedownhandler
//Track the amount the mouse has moved.
// globeMouseDiffX = -mouseX + cameraTarget.rotationY;
//globeMouseDiffY = mouseY + cameraTarget.rotationX;
globeMouseDiffX = -(mouseX + cameraTarget.rotationY);
globeMouseDiffY = mouseY – cameraTarget.rotationX;

right below this line:

longitude -= ( longitudeDegreeOffset * ( Math.PI/180 ) ); // offset longitude by n degrees (in radians).

add in this:

longitude += .265;

This gets the markers where they should be, or at least close enough for me.

This is a really nice application–thank you for sharing it. I am glad I found it before I started building something like it from scratch.

I haven’t been able to fix the coordinate system, but if I do I will be sure to post the fix here.

I believe this has something to do with how the yaw method works in the new release of pv3d.

To fix this delete or comment out this code:

//Rotate the camera target to have the camera face America.
cameraTarget.yaw( 180 );

replace it with this:

//Rotate the camera target to have the camera face America.
Tweener.addTween( cameraTarget, { rotationX:30, rotationY:180, time:0 } );

You can change the parameters to make the globe start at anyplace you want.

I implemented Garold’s fix:
//Reposition the camera away from the globe and null object.
//camera.moveBackward( 360 );
camera.moveBackward( 1200 );

and that made the perspective right. By the way Garold, you’ve probably found this out by now, but if you run the file locally in IE – through the filesystem rather than via http (as in localhost or from a server) you will get those errors.

Last, I tried Daniel’s fix, but I have a problem that I am working on trying to sort out. When I click the globe, it immediately flips over, then I can interact with it normally. Also, the markers’ latitude seems wrong. I’ve only been messing with it for an hour, so I’ll post any fixes I can find, but has anyone else already solved these issues?

So it works well now! For some reason the rotation was working inverse, meaning it rotated the other way as my mouse moved. Also, when I performed a rotationX and clicked again, it performed a rotation in the opposite direction. Don’t know why, but this fixed it for me:

[in mouseDownHandler:]
globeMouseDiffX = -mouseX + cameraTarget.rotationY;
globeMouseDiffY = mouseY – cameraTarget.rotationX;

[in onRenderTick:]
var rotationY:Number = -( -mouseX – globeMouseDiffX );
var rotationX:Number = ( mouseY – globeMouseDiffY );

Cheers,
Daniel