# How can i do this effect
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 21, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706 "2003-01-21T08:50:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@b4m77](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/b4m77)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/1 "2003-01-21T08:50:56Z")
how can i do the 3d-spiral menu in the attached file
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/2 "2003-01-21T08:59:32Z")
What do you mean? Be more specific…
if you have a problem check the ultrashock fla forum for help…
this issue has been discussed there many times.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/3 "2003-01-21T12:58:40Z")
thx for this great help
i think i was cz i need to know how did they did it(the whole thing):beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/4 "2003-01-21T13:13:44Z")
hmm… you HAVE the fla… dont you know already how they did it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/5 "2003-01-21T13:41:28Z")
That fla is just too ■■■■ complicated… :hangover: It almost looks like it’s been obfuscated on purpose :crazy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/6 "2003-01-21T13:48:13Z")
> \*Originally posted by ilyaslamasse \*
> \*\*That fla is just too damn complicated… :hangover: It almost looks like it’s been obfuscated on purpose :crazy: \*\*
:beam: that deserves a looksee
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/7 "2003-01-21T14:05:40Z")
Its not that bad considering what its doing. The flash 4 syntax can be a little confusing, though that might have been a concious decision for reasons of speed (though this isnt doing so much that its really an issue).
basically you have a ‘button’ movieclip to represent your section (this being the circle and ‘option’ text. Each one of these is pseudo-rotated around a bar using trig, each offset from the next based on a global rotation value. There are hidden buttons behind each of the positions of these sections to change that global rotation to that position which would make that current selection appear frontmost (and would also control your actions for that section).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/8 "2003-01-21T14:11:37Z")
Glad you could decipher the code. 🙂 I know I could never get anything to appear instead of the default text :-/
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-do-this-effect/11706/9 "2003-01-21T20:24:16Z")
thx to all,
i did not think that its a very complicated :hangover: