Movieclip rotation to 360 degrees?

[itsallgood]

Hi guys,

I know this should be simple! It's driving me nut's that i've had to ask this question!!! I've searched google, searched the board -- but i cannot work it out.


trace(myMovieClip..rotation) is returning the -180 for left side and +180 for right side


How do i get this rotation to be out of 360 degrees?


Thanks so much for the help!

[spacemonk3y]

hey, if you want to use from 0 to 360, you can always convert it with a function like

function toFlashRotation(value:Number):Number
{
return (value%360<180) ? value%360 : -(180 -(value%360 - 180)) ;
}
//trace(toFlashRotation(200)) = -160
function fromFlashRotation(value:Number):Number
{
return (value>0) ? value : 180 + (180 -Math.abs(value)) ;
}
//trace(fromFlashRotation(-175)) = 185

[rynoe]

To explain why you get -180 to 180:

Your using the rotation property of a diplayObject. Values of that are -180 to 180. Values outside this range are added to or subtracted from 360 to obtain a value within the range.

This applies to all other rotation properties as well, ie. rotationX, rotationY etc.