trigonometry

[jbum]

Yes... let's say you have a series of duplicate movieclips named star1 - star5.

You can use a loop like the following to arrange them in a circular manner.

code:

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kNbrPoints = 5; // number of segments to draw

cx = 100;

cy = 100;

radius = 50;



for (i = 1; i <= kNbrPoints; ++i)

{

  var a = i*360/kNbrPoints; // angle from 0 - 360 (degrees)

  var ar = a*Math.PI/180;   // angle from 0-2PI (radians)

  var mc = _root["star"+i];

  mc._x = cx+Math.cos(ar)*radius;

  mc._y = cy+Math.sin(ar)*radius;

  mc._rotation = a;

}

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You may need to add a fixed amount to the rotatation to correct it. The script assumes that your basic diamond shape is pointing to the right.