Creating Line By Resizing? Active Object Sample

[drnebula]

This file, under the Line group, duplicates the code below. But no line is drawn. How come? Any help appreciated.

Steve

Likely what they did was make an active with a height of the thickness of your line, and a width of 1px. Then the events

Always:
Set Angle to 0
Set X Scale to sqr((X("Object 2")-X("Object 1")) pow 2+(Y("Object 2")-Y("Object 1")) pow 2)
Set Angle to atan2(Y("Object 1")-Y("Object 2"), X("Object 2")-X("Object 1"))
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JacobPariseau

[Fernando]

Hi,

the problem is that the line is drawing outside the frame.

try to do this.

create event

Start of Frame-> and set the line object to back (Order)

in you last line of group Line

below the Atan2 calculations

add the following action

choose active Line, and set position 0,0 relative to pendulum1

and that is all in the event.

choose line for the image editor and set the hot spot and action spot to the center bottom.

this should fix it.

hope its help

[drnebula]

Thanks. It works now! Very usefull idea which saves trying to use the Overlay Redux or Suface object which add many other complications.
Steve