# Rotate Object Around Center Axis

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotate-object-around-center-axis/314626>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 4, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotate-object-around-center-axis/314626 "2010-10-04T20:32:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanillabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9f8e36/32.png) [@vanillabeast](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vanillabeast)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotate-object-around-center-axis/314626/1 "2010-10-04T20:32:22Z")

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Hey peoples, new to flash here. I’m using CS3 with ActionScript 3.0. What I want is simple, and I’ve done some [COLOR=blue][FONT=verdana][FONT=verdana]searching [/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR]but nothing that can get me the right results. I’m going to post a link that does exactly what I want:

[http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/…c892c425cbbd1e](http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d25a3dd46f2ff49f2ec892c425cbbd1e)

This rotates the circular object around a center point in a way that you can distort the object yet is still remains turning in a circular motion. A simple motion tween rotating the image will only work if the object is perfectly round, so distorting the object to make it more straight or curved won’t work with a simple tween. I want to do exactly what is happening here (with my own object), is there some AS3 behind the scenes here making this turn on a center point?? Thanks for the help