# Smooth Movie Clip Rotation
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 13, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528 "2002-09-13T21:00:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mr\_Twinkles](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mr_Twinkles)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528/1 "2002-09-13T21:00:45Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528/2 "2002-09-13T21:06:19Z")
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);
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528/3 "2002-09-13T21:44:41Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528/4 "2002-09-14T02:40:54Z")
Sorry no one replied to you in time. Glad you got it working though. Good job sir.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2002, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528/5 "2002-09-14T09:57:39Z")
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](http://home.iprimus.com.au/berryfam/temp/rotate.swf)
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 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-movie-clip-rotation/5528/6 "2002-09-16T21:39:12Z")
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](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);
```
}