Rotation question. Bear with me, please

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I’ve searched a few flash sites that came up in google searches, I’ve looked around here for anything that might help, I’ve done a search of the forum for my question, but nothing posted so far answers it. If this IS answered somewhere on the site, and i somehow missed it, I apologize in advance.

I drew a car. I made a wheel that was a movie clip symbol. I want all instances of the wheel to rotate continuously, but I can’t figure out how to do it.

I’m VERY new to flash animation. I’ve been going to Newgrounds for years, but I’ve never tried using flash to make anything until a week ago. I’ve got no grasp on using actionscript, and I barely ahve the UI and tweening down. I’ve tried messing with different things, but nothing works.

The first thing I tried was editing the movie clip. I put a keyframe in frame 5. I tweened the wheel rotating 360 degrees by the 5th frame. Then I put an actionscript in frame 5 that said “goto frame 1 and play”

I assumed that would make it loop over and over again, but it just stopped at frame 5. Maybe it’s something obvious, or tha fact that I’m new, but I don’t see what I’m doing wrong.

Help?

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OK, what you need to do is make the movie clip symbol for the wheel, just don’t bother putting any scripting in it. If you leave it with just the tween, then it will loop continuously just like you need. :slight_smile:

When you’re doing the tween, make sure that the last frame is just a bit before the finish of the rotation. That when when it loops back to the beginning, the first frame will also count as the last frame and complete the movement for you. :slight_smile:

If you have any problems still, post the fla and I’ll show you waht I mean. :slight_smile:

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Thanks alot!

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No worries. :slight_smile:

If you get any problems, give us a yell. :slight_smile:

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:frowning:

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong NOW. When I try to make the wheel rotate more than 180, Flash wants to have the wheel rotate the other direction so it can get the the point quicker.

Say I type 340 degrees into the rotation box and press enter. Flash changes the field to say -20 degrees.

Why can’t I amke it rotate more than 180 degrees without it changing this on me?

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try specifying CW or CCW