[F8] Keeping rotations equal

[jasonpeinko]

I have a character with several movie clips set up inside.

I have three movie clips that i need to stay in the same possition as they rotate with the mouse. But they dont rotate around the same point. see attachment for an image.

[taifunbrowser]

Simple. See those crosshairs? The movie clips rotate about them. Go inside each movie clip, and move the graphic so that its oriented around its "crosshair".

And then make the crosshairs overlap.

OR, just select all 3, and convert that to a movieclip. you can have movieclips in movieclips, doncha know. then you just hbave to rotate the parent, and everything inside rotates.

cool. first helpful post

[jasonpeinko]

yes but then i cant animate the arms when they are no in use.
also then the arms dont rotate around the shoulders. That is what i was doing but i had that problem.

[gparis]

use guided frame by frame animations.

gparis

[jasonpeinko]

what is that and how do i do it?

[gparis]

manually. with a guide layer.

gparis