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What is the best way to display text to mimic an 8 line by 40 character LED display? I'll have multiple messages that all need to be centered, and put in a dot matrix font, including blank lines...

We need to get this working, so I'm going to give you my "universal approach" to problems like this.

First, build your string for doing the pointing:

foo:String = _global.callevel +...

Assuming that "_level2.slider_movie.a._y= cal_y;" works, and assuming the following:

callevel = "_level2"
cal_ab = "a"
cal_y = (some number)

then

[callevel]slider_movie.[cal_ab]._y = cal_y;

[callevel].[slider_movie].[cal_ab]._y= cal_y;

I think, anyway.

I'm lost.

Vertical is a direction of either 90 or 0 degrees, depending on whether we're talking Cartesian or compass directions.

Rotation goes 360 degrees.

What is vertical rotation?

Your problem is in your if statement. Put a trace right after the if on your loader code and you'll see you never evaluate the if to true.

I don't have time to go deeper... sorry. I'll look...

If you have a "stop()" at the end, then instead replace it with an if statement.

Initialize a variable at the start (call it something like "movieHasPlayed") and set it to false.

At the end,...

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/advanced/Color_fade/index.shtml

That link will take you to a complete tutorial which also explains hex to rgb, and vice-versa.

rotationSpeed <= 72 instead of == 72 may do it.

Well, it isn't easier, but try setTransform as well. You can do each (rgb) as well as alpha with it. Follow the examples in the help, plus there are good tutes online if you look for them.

Then make it:

if (this.stem01 == "e")

and publish it to flash 5

OK, I'm not certain, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I looked at your code. What you apparently want to do is to compare the text in the dynamic textbox to your value ("e" in this case), however,...

Well? What'd you do?

The circumference of the wheel is 2 * pi * radius. So, if you move (distance formula is: distance = square root of (new X - old X)^2 + (new Y - old Y)^2), the circumference in distance, it will take...

I just did a cursory skim of this thread, but couldn't you just find the perimeter, and multiply that by 0.05? We'll call that the "perimeter rectangle."

Subtract the perimeter rectangle from your...

So if I have Swift3D and FlashMX, would I have any need for 3DFA?

Nothing on your computer can do 3D. Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. Bupkiss.

What the "3D" programs do is allow you to define an illustration in three planes, creating a database of all of this. Then,...

[sarcasm on]
C'mon! There's no movie label on it! How are we supposed to know what's on the tape?
[sarcasm off]

Another primo job. Well done.

You can't go wrong by starting here on Flashkit doing the tutorials, after you finish the tutorials that came with Flash. When you finish those, you can do more tutorials at Kirupa.com and then the...

You're almost there. You need to change the sweep angle to less than 360 degrees. The sweep angle can be found on the scene editor, on the left, when the lathed object is selected, and the "Lathe"...

Mahvalous, simply mahvalous. ;)

Thanks for the link to the thread. I'm downloading the requisite programs now to see how they work out.

Thanks for your time.

Can you tell us any more about Milkshape3D? I saw it is just $20. I have Swift and Plasma (just got my authorization code from them two days ago, since I have a slow connection ;) ) Anyway, what's...

And although I disparage its modeling tools on occasion, the Swift3D package itself is more than enough for most applications.

Photo-realistic and human modeling are the only things that are...

I'd try reinstalling.

Your output looks pretty cool, though. ;) Sorta like a Picasso in his "straight edge" period.

The export function acts on the left hand window. Is that where the proper animation is playing?

It does not matter which window is active. The left-hand window will be rendered.

HTH