Re: FLASH: rotate a mc around an endpoint

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:40 PM 4/8/00 , you wrote:


>Is there a way to rotate a movieclip around one of its endpoints instead

>of the middle using the _rotation property?  If I do

>Modify/Transform/Edit Center on the mc in Flash and move the little plus

>sign to an endpoint, then a Modify/Transform/Scale_and_Rotate makes it

>rotate on the endpoint, but it still rotates around the midpoint when I

>use the set property(_rotation) command and Test Movie.


Try editing the position of the movie clip in symbol edit mode, relative to 

the center point in the edit window. If you need to retain the original 

center point for other purposes, make a copy of the symbol first and then 

swap instances when you need the off-center version.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com



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