RE: FLASH: Graphics 'wilting'

[Chad Kraeft]

The rotation isn't a full 360 in my file, it shifts a max of 180...  But

even if values never change, the graphic begins to collapse in upon itself:

it stays the same apparent size, but the ends begin to fold together in a

way that I cannot explain with scaling...


I threw both out on the net for anyone to take a look at if they would:

http://www.ivory-tower.net/gageloaded.fla

http://www.ivory-tower.net/gageloaded.swf



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Subject: Re: FLASH: Graphics 'wilting'



I've missed most of this thread, so excuse me if I'm

blabbing irrelevantly...


Since you're rotating 360 degrees, I assume it's for the

purpose of a rotation tween, because otherwise, it

seems pointless (an object looks the same at 0 degrees

and 360 degrees).


If it is a motion tween that you are trying to do, then

don't rotate the MC at all.  Go to the motion tween

settings, set it to rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise

and tell it to rotate 1 time (or more if desired).


It sounds like you want the rotation to be based on

actionscript though, BUT this way would work for that

too...


I've done something similar at

http://www.neometrixsystems.com/flashclock.html

(it uses FSCommand with JS, for those with browsers

that support it).    The background is a large disk that

rotates to show the current time of day (set your system

time to another time and hit refresh if you don't believe

me).  The disk is rotated in the manner I described above

(over 360 frames) and I use actionscript to 'tell target' it

to the correct frame based on a function I wrote to change

the current time to a value from 0 to 360.


Anyway... I hope this does more than just add confusion

to the good suggestions so far...


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

From: "Helen Triolo" <

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>


> I bet you're right, Catherine, about the rotating causing the problem (I

> guess the combination of rotating and masking would make it look like

> it's wilting instead of just shrinking, which is what rotate does --

> yes, it's a bug).  Anyway, if that's the problem (mc shrinking when

> rotated), the fix is just to add an extra 2 lines to set xscale and

> yscale back to 100 after doing the rotate.

>

> Regards,

> Helen

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>

> Catherine Kunicki wrote:

> >

> > Hi. In vague memory somewhere, there was discussion of a bug in flash

> > rotation. If you rotate 360 degrees, the graphic would also scale. The

fix

> > was not to rotate 360, but 359 degrees, I think. Don't take my word for

it

> > though - do a search at macromedia or other flash tech info sites for

> > rotation bug.

> >

> > Catherine





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