I've been using flash for a while now but ive never looked into using maths/code to make stuff move around so i come beggin your concil
What I have is a symbol and i want it to be rotating when the page loads and then if the user puts thier mouse over it for it to change direction/angular velocity in order of how fast the pointer/symbol interaction was
That wasnt very clear so let me give u an analogy, imagine a record spinning on a turntable with the motor turn of. If you put ur hand across the turntable and span it (in either direction) it would spin for a time in that direction at a speed relative to how fast u push the turn table and then come to a stop.
That is the kind of thing i want to do, but instead of coming to a total stop...just spin very slowy.
Any advise or information and guidance you can offer greatly appreciated
See the attachment for a visual. Whenever the mouse is over the turntable, you should save the angle (green lines) between the mouse (blue dot) and the center of the turntable (black dot) in a variable. Once you have two angles, find the difference between them (short black arcs) and you have the angular velocity of your turntable. Save that in a variable and then every onEnterFrame you should A. increase the turntable's rotation by the angular velocity and B. multiply the angular velocity by a "friction", probably somewhere between .9 and .95
To leave it spinning slowly after the user plays with it instead of coasting to a stop, put a test around the friction multiplier:
if(Math.abs(aV) > MinSpeed){ aV *= Friction; }
If your turntable is especially small or you just want a lot of accuracy, you'll probably want to use the mouse position just before it touches the turntable and the one just after it leaves.
I've pretty much given you a general overview of how it should work, so I can understand if you need help implementing it. It uses some trig for the angle stuff. Feel free to ask me for further explanation of anything or everything.
woah man thats cool - uba helpful. I am going to need masses of help with the implmentation as my AS skillz are next to nill... i can just about do timeline control lol. Accuracy isnt a major issue this is just something to look nice.
www.thefieldofchampions.com/home.html [NB: best to use firefox if you have it...my flash design and IE are not liking each other atm and it may cause some problems i.e. movie not loaded]
in the top left of the page is the icon that i have been given to work with. I have done a simple motion tween on it for now jst to see what its like (feel free to ignor the crapy template of a webpage underneath i intend to change it shortly...)
Well ive done/am doing A level physics/maths (high school i think is equivalent over the pond) so dont be afraid to hit it with the maths and trig etc.
So ive got my little symbol on the stage...what now?
I couldn't get the very top movie to load with IE or firefox. Anyway, since you seem to not know very much about AS at all, it's easier to just code it for you and let you see how it should go than to try to walk you through coding it yourself.
code:
//radius of record
radius = record_mc._width/2;
Friction = .95;
MinSpeed = 5;
//rotational speed
rSpeed = 0;
//tells if the mouse is over the record or not
contact = false;
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
//find distance between mouse and record
xDiff = record_mc._x-_xmouse;
yDiff = record_mc._y-_ymouse;
dist = Math.sqrt(xDiff*xDiff+yDiff*yDiff);
//set contact variable based on if the record is being touched or not
if(dist <= radius){
contact = true;
}else{
contact = false;
//set sentinel value
oldAngle = undefined;
}
if(contact){
//get current angle with arc tangent convert from radians to degrees
angle = Math.atan2(yDiff, xDiff) *180/Math.PI;
//see if more than one angle has been found; set new rSpeed if there are two
if(oldAngle != undefined){
rSpeed = angle-oldAngle;
}
//send angle back to oldAngle
oldAngle = angle;
}
//manipulate record based on speed
record_mc._rotation += rSpeed;
//decrease speed if it is fast enough
if(Math.abs(rSpeed) > MinSpeed)
rSpeed *= Friction;
}
This code would go in the timeline, and it assumes that the instance name of your record is record_mc. I tried to make it obvious what I was doing with comments but you're bound to have a lot of questions anyway since you don't know the language.
how odd... i was messing round with files on the server earlier so that mite have been y it wasnt loading
Anyway i will have a bash with this when i retrun home, tho looking thru the code it all seems fairly straight forward - as in i know wt ur doing...i couldn;t have written that, my programing knowledge extends as far as VB and thats about it. Thanks alot man ill let u know how it comes out
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