3D rotation

I’d like to figure out how to do some tricky rotation…

The object I want to rotate is a 2D rectangle that can easily be drawn with the rectangle tool.

The rotation is to occur about a vertical line drawn through the center of the rectangle.

Do you follow?

Lets say we are looking at the rectanlge strait on, we can see it’s full dimensions. As it starts to rotate we begin to see less and less of it, and when it is rotated 90 degrees it looks like a verticle line. Hope you guys understand.

Any help or tutorials would be cool?

Thanks

okay, first draw the rectangle and make it a movieclip. Have an instance of your clip in frame 1, now click on frame 12(or any frame depending on how long you want it to be) and press F6 to make a new keyframe. select that rectangle and go to Modify/Transform/Flip Horizontal.
now right click on the first frame in the timeline and choose Create Motion Tween.

thanks

that works pretty well…

can I make this rectangle have different “_alphas” so it looks more realistic?