Featured Flash FLA 11303 Flash Movies | 7 New Flash Movies Added What's New | Top 100 Featured FLA » Author: Nitin Tikhe » Title: Cart » Description: This Animation Tut is a fun and useful for kids below 15 years. Watch the Flag, Doors, Stick and Horse movements. » More by Nitin Tikhe Random FLAs | Add Flash Movie Featured Flash Site 6008 Flash Sites | 0 New Flash Links What's New | Top 100 Flash Site Featured Site » Posted in the Flash Kit Links section » Title: Banana Swimwear » Description: This is a banana swim wear interactive catalog we designed and animated in Flash Random Links | Add your own Flash Related Links

1255 Tutorials 7 New Tutorials Added! What's New | Top100 » Make flash video player for broadcasting live streaming video / TV on website » How to convert the project file of Flash Demo Builder 2.0 into FLV file » FLV to PSP for Mac - How to convert YouTube video to PSP on mac » How to Convert FLV to MP4 for Playback on iPod » how to download and convert youtube video to AVI with Leawo Free FLV converter » Flash Multi-player Game Tutorial - TicTacToe » How to make Flash elearning tutorials with screen recorder? » Fader API:Slideshow with MovieClips on stage » How to convert MS PPT file into an FLV File » Unknown Tag: Title10 Random Tutorial | Add Site

Network Design Manager The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-VA-Hampton Post A Job | Post A Resume

Tutorials Home What's New Top Rated Submit myTutes Random!

Tutorials » Actionscripting/Basic

Rotation Made Easy
Author: Jason Riegner | Website: http://www.innousa.com |

If you're like me then rotating any object by tweening is frustrating. After hitting 180 degrees the movie then runs backwards and now you have to spend time fixing it just to get it to rotate correctly. On top of all this, if your movie is running too fast or slow the adjusments to the tween can be a bit time consuming. Here is a way to rotate any movie clip with only 3 frames and one variable for speed.

1. Create an object. In this movie I made a box.
2. select the object and convert it to a Movie Clip symbol.
3. Name the instance. I named this one "box" for ease of use
4. Span the object over three frames
5. create a new layer
6. Insert three blank keyframes on this new layer
7. In the first blank keyframe insert this action: r = 0; This varible is the rotation angle. We set it to 0 (normal position)
8. In the second frame add these actins: setProperty ("box", _rotation, r); r = r + 1;
9. Now in the last frame add the action: gotoAndPlay (2);

To change the speed of the rotation just change the second frame action r = r + 1; to whatever number you need ex:r = r + 5; - speeds up the rotation while r = r + .05; slows it down.

Adding some if statements and other variables will allow you to control the rotation in even more detail.

Jason Riegner www.innousa.com

» Forums
	More help? Search our boards for quick answers!

Please rate this tutorial, 10 is the top rating, you can also click the comments link to read/write a review.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1