Smooth Movie Clip Rotation

programming flash
1

is there any way to get a smooth rotation in AS? I would assume i would use this._rotation, but it doesn’t smoothly rotate the way i want it to…
I’m trying to make a movie clip that randomly goes to a location while rotating. here’s what code i have now.

onClipEvent (load)
{
speed = .2;
xLocation = 0;
yLocation = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
if (Math.ceil(this._x) == xLocation && Math.ceil(this._y) == yLocation)
{
xLocation = random(390);
yLocation = random(190);

}
this._x = (this._x + (xLocation - this._x) * speed);
this._y = (this._y + (yLocation - this._y) * speed);

}

Any Ideas?

2

Ok, i’ve put in a clip of code where it continuously rotates, but how do i get it so it slows rotation when it gets closer to the point it’s going to?
i used this._rotation += random(20);

3

I guess i might as well turn this into a tutorial, or someone else can, cause i figured out how to do this now.
This is the line of code to make it rotate, i put some extras in there to make it seem like it’s rolling…

this._rotation = (yLocation - this._y) - (xLocation - this._x);

So there we go, i’ve solved my own problem.

4

Sorry no one replied to you in time. Glad you got it working though. Good job sir.

5

hehe yeah good work…i was working on a menu thing once and it sorta stuffed up after clicking the button 3 or 4 times…
Rotate Thing

i havn’t looked it in a while…but yeah i dont know what the problem is…
i think that if i had a look it might work agian hehe :slight_smile:

6

Guess i might as well post this so that y’all can see what it looks like…only 1k. Sorry about it being geocities, just had to set something up real quick.

http://www.geocities.com/randommovement2002

By the way, here’s the code:

onClipEvent (load)
{
speed = .1;
xLocation = 0;
yLocation = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
if (Math.ceil(this._x) == xLocation && Math.ceil(this._y) == yLocation)
{
xLocation = random(390);
yLocation = random(190);

}
this._x = (this._x + (xLocation - this._x) * speed);
this._y = (this._y + (yLocation - this._y) * speed);
this._rotation = ((yLocation - this._x) + (xLocation - this._y)/2);

}