KupaMan 2008-07-12 15:44:43

Whoa, that just melted my mind.

Phil 2008-07-12 16:13:40

My mind blew up. x(

Doberman 2008-07-12 16:34:39

is this basically an easier process in flash then or. . . .?

Kart-Man 2008-07-12 17:16:17

...Has anyone ever told you that you should become a math teacher?

Wingle-Flotz 2008-07-12 17:33:54

I have NO idea what you just said, but i'm gonna try and figure it out. Or, my brain'll shrivel up and die in the process. That was a useless comment, wasn't it?

TjA 2008-07-12 19:07:33

thats pretty smart how flash does that, how did you find that out?

Atgod88 2008-07-12 19:13:25

What do you think I am, a freakin' rocket surgeon?

Wholyish 2008-07-12 22:02:40

wow... that actually made sense to me, though ive never dealt with the scenario. thanks for that, ill keep it in mind. (you might want to explain the matrices and trig a little more for the typical newgroundser)

Wiiporter 2008-07-13 00:40:25

*pop*

Matt475 2008-07-13 00:48:34

Yeah I understood that

Sirkowski 2008-07-13 01:19:18

...and that's why I only make drawings. x_X

Kidlazarus 2008-07-13 01:45:46

I understand the mathematical lingo but you lost me in the ActionScript...

WolfBlitz2 2008-07-13 03:25:27

I think my brain broke

Drift-And-Die 2008-07-13 06:44:07

what

The-Super-Flash-Bros 2008-07-13 07:34:48

Flash is smart sometimes, but sometime not so helpful. You can see exactly how it stores the transform if you have the transform window open - type in -100% for width, then reselect the clip, you'll see it actually counts as a skew of 180 degrees

Try this one! Its a problem with AS3, I'm not sure if it used to do it in AS2. Bear in mind that height and width of a movieclip are always relative to its parent's x/y axis, not the clips own internal axis (unlike xScale and yScale)

Add a 100x100 square MovieClip to the timeline, call it mc and add this to the stage timeline:

mc.rotation = 90;
mc.width = 50;
trace(mc.width);
trace(mc.height);

You'll see that it completely scews up which way it scales! then try this:

mc.rotation = 90;
mc.width = 50;
mc.width = 50;
trace(mc.width);
trace(mc.height);

It seems like the first time it uses width (same goes for height) it hasn't updated the rotation on the clip, but the second time it has! Crazy Flash...

Tom-

vai90 2008-07-13 09:28:05

I understood the main message, but I've never used a flash program. It'd be freaking awesome to have the skills of Adam Phillips, Michael Swain or Jeff Bandelin, but sadly I know not one thing about it and I'm afraid of these mathematical bullshit you seem to have to go through. I hate math. :|

Any advice?
xx Martin xx

ace210493 2008-07-13 09:29:03

i understand the maths
but i fell swamped out by actionscript

JonBro 2008-07-13 12:53:13

I have more problems with _height and _width acting as positive when I try making them negative than I have with _xscale and _yscale.

UberCream 2008-07-13 14:04:43

I think my brain just popped... Painfully...

I-smel 2008-07-13 14:25:50

I think the point of this is:

Flash uses a square root function to flip things horizontally or vertically
the square root of any number is allways positive
so flipping something will allways give you a positive _xscale

I could be wrong there. Well done for finding out though.