smooth rotation

[Bogeyman]

Hi folks,

i wonder why this wasn't asked before (at least i couldn't find nothing).

Since MMF only use rational numbers for rotation that means I only have 360 degrees. So one complete rotation will contain max 360 moves?

Is there a way of smoother rotation? I have a huge space background and I would like it to rotate really slow and smooth.


Thanks in advance!

[Eliyahu]

cncwizard, MMF2 also has rotations by setting angles. If it only takes integer values then yes there are only 360 possible rotations.
Bogeyman, rotating a huge background will be very slow, so a better solution may be to load it into the Surface Object and rotate it there. I can't tell you how to do that, as I don't have a clue, but I'm fairly sure it can do decimal rotations.

[Nifflas]

Perhaps it's different on the HWA mode (it's the only one I use so I wouldn't know about the Standard), but I have no problem using floating point angles. NightSky and Saira would look horrible without it.

[Tsun]

I believe there's an example in this: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=46443

There's a very slowly spinning smiley face or something.

[Jacob]

Perhaps it's different on the HWA mode (it's the only one I use so I wouldn't know about the Standard), but I have no problem using floating point angles. NightSky and Saira would look horrible without it.

HWA supports floating point angles with 2 degrees of precision, so you get 0.00 to 360.00 degrees

[Jacob]

No, use the Set Angle action. You can rotate objects to any angle you want.

[Eliyahu]

A circle consists of 360 degrees. MMF2 measures in degrees.

[Bogeyman]

Thank you folks. The HWA was what I forgot.
With HWA you can smoothly rotate an image from 0.00 to 360.00 degrees.