How to do 360 rotation?

[Kbee]

How does one do this - go to

http://www.hibore.com/

and click on the XL driver - do they simply take still shots from every angle and then import those into flash? How then the rotation? The scrub bar?

Thanks

KB

[infinityspiral]

So this is a 3D animation of the different angles. It's like a movie and the scrub bar just moves you from one frame to another based on the relative position between the start and finish. It's not actually calculating the textures and reflections realtime :D

[Kbee]

OK thanks for the breakdown - do you know of a program best suited to do this kind of animation?

KB

[infinityspiral]

I'm a Maya guy so that's my preference, but any 3D animation package would be able to handle this. XSI, 3D Studio, Lightwave and Maya are all very expensive and difficult to learn. Blender might still be free, but again 3D packages are difficult to learn. Best bet is if you need an animation like this to farm it out to a freelancer that knows 3D

[Kbee]

Thought so - thanks for info.

KB