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    Help with rotating shape

    hi everyone - my first post here

    I am struggling to do what I would to with Koolmoves

    I have just written a book called The Logos and am putting together a website

    On the home page is the logos symbol. It is a circle shape and I want this to rotate when someone goes to the website

    When I use koolmoves and create frames it takes the shape out of true and when it rotates it looks like an oval – also the background is white and I want it black - now very frustrated!!

    The image is



    What is want is for this to stay a true circle and when someone goes to the website for it to rotate through 360 degrees and then stop. Also while it is spinning the background has to remain black like the rest of the webpage

    happy to provide better quality graphics if anyone out there can help?

    in anticiapation

    Mark

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    To fix the rotation problem, either use Effects > Rotate or make the shape a symbol. What you currently have is due to linear morphing of a vector shape.

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    Bob

    Thanks

    you make that sound sooo easy and I am sure it is if you know how

    how do i make the shape a symbol and i wont even pretend to understrand the bit about linear morphing of a vector shape - isnt this how the LHC makes black holes or something

    Mark

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    Double-click on the shape to get its properties. Set "Is a symbol" to yes. It might help if you set the selection scope to all frames (Shapes > Selection Scope) before changing the property.

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    hi

    did that - thanks

    it does rotate but the inside still turns to an oval on the 90degree and 270 degree turn

    Mark

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    Send me the image. I will create an example that doesn't have a rotation issue.

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    Last edited by Bob Hartzell; 02-01-2010 at 12:33 PM.

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    Bob

    hi

    the image is the same as the one in my post



    and the link to the image is

    http://www.the-logos.co.uk/spinning_img.JPG

    M

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    I created an example. I used Effects > Rotate inside a movie clip. I found that it doesn't work if the export version is 9 or higher.
    Attached Files Attached Files

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    Bob

    you are a star - thank you very much

    thats just what i want it to do

    the only issue is that the inside still turns it to an oval

    ie if you look at the design - where all the edges of the while symbols form a black circle in the middle - the issue when it spins is that when the symbol is at the 90 and270 degree position the inside does not remain a circle but looks like an oval

    what is want is for the inside black circle to remain a circle when it spins - is just like a wheel or disc - not fluctuate to an oval and back again

    do you know why it does this

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    The white part is not perfectly centered in the outer black rectangle. Crop the rectangle to the edges of the circle part.

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    Bob

    tried that but the image just is not behaving

    see attached

    the first is the image as it
    the second one is the same image and i just rotated 90degrees
    it goes out of shape and for the life of me i dont know why

    mark




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    The cropped rectangle should be a square and it isn't. The outer boundary to the white part is clearly not defining a circle. Squish it into the proper aspect ratio using image editing software.

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