@Patrick Geiller: I've played around with NanoLife and hit problems when using layers in 3d
There's actually a "sphereContainer" sublayer that holds all of the floating orbs. I'm not sure what the exact effect was that you were going for, I changed this line in your copy of the source:
mainLayer.sublayerTransform = transform;
To this:
sphereContainer.sublayerTransform = transform;
And it looks a lot better. I think Core Animation is actually doing exactly what you're asking. The NSView's backing layer had the sublayerTransform applied, so the sphereContainer layer was floating out in space.
by Scott Stevenson — Mar 14
There's actually a "sphereContainer" sublayer that holds all of the floating orbs. I'm not sure what the exact effect was that you were going for, I changed this line in your copy of the source:
mainLayer.sublayerTransform = transform;To this:
sphereContainer.sublayerTransform = transform;And it looks a lot better. I think Core Animation is actually doing exactly what you're asking. The NSView's backing layer had the sublayerTransform applied, so the sphereContainer layer was floating out in space.