RE: FLASH: Graphics 'wilting'

[Dorian Nisinson]

This may be completely off base as I couldn't see the urls you listed, but

the weird folding corners sounds somewhat like you might have a shape tween

in there somewhere? Is that possible?


Dorian


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> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Chad

> Kraeft

> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:48 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: RE: FLASH: Graphics 'wilting'

>

>

> 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

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Gregg

> Caines

> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:25 AM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> 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...

>

> ---------------------------------------------------

> Gregg Caines

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

> http://www.neometrixsystems.com

>

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

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>

From: "Helen Triolo" <designeri-technica [dot] com>

>

> > 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

> > ----------------------------------------

> >  helen triolo  �  http://i-technica.com

>

> designeri-technica [dot] com � 301-424-6037

> > ----------------------------------------

> >

> > 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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