Drag To Rotate
When you don't want to go through the trouble of making an actual 3D model, this pseudo 3D object will do a nice job of interactively showing many sides. Similar to the popular QuickTime 3D object movies, this activity rotates through a series of 2D sides in a way that simulates a 3D object.
To simplify the task, I have created a simple "Rotate Side View Trigger" behavior to tell director when to swap the image. The activity is done by creating 17 hotspots (16 for each view) and assigning the behavior to each hotspot telling what image you want via a pulldown menu. You can also use this behavior with 8 or 10 sides as well.
The only challenging part is lining up all the layers in Photoshop so that everything looks pretty strait and does not jitter. For Photoshop 7 or lower developers, I have created an action that will save each PS Object layer to a separate file Ob1, Ob2...etc. (kind of a free photocaster plug-in). This will help you greatly and you can find this in the authoring behaviors section.
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