ActionScript 3.0 :: Rotating A Clip Around A Dynamic Anchor?
Jan 5, 2011
I ran into a problem, I'm trying to create a class where I can rotate a clip according to the position of another marker. I attached my source code, it's hard to explain but I think the project speaks for itself.Initialy it works great the way it should but after just one rotation the clip to be rotated starts moving in the wrong direction. I feel like I'm almost there but I could be wrong.
ActionScript Code:
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