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JakobSternberg
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March 17, 2022
Question

Animate Bugs: Editor Transformation point of movieclips

  • March 17, 2022
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1. Make a colored square 20x20 px.

2. Convert it to movieclip (with registration center)

3. Edit the movieclip and move/align the square to left/top (so that registration/transformation point is 0:0)

4. Exit the movieclip

5. Resize/transform the movieclip (simply drag one of the corners)

6. Note that the registration point is no longer at 0:0  - the more you resize the movieclip, the more the transformation point gets offset.  

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    Firewood：D
    Firewood：D
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2024

    There are many small problems like this. This software cannot even achieve floating-point precision, which is probably due to the limitation of the underlying language of the software.

    After scaling, it can only be converted back to symbols.

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    JakobSternbergAuthor
    Known Participant
    September 18, 2024

    Yea, it's a shame it's just left to rot. 

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 17, 2022

    1. the transform point != the registration point.

    2. when i follow your steps the transform point and reg point remain at 0,0 when i return to the main timeline at step 4.

     

     

    regardless, to change the transform point:

     

    select the object

    click the transform tool

    and move the transform point (open circle) to the desired location:

     

     

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    JakobSternbergAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 17, 2022

    Ok, then try this 

     

    1. Make a square movieclip 20x20px

    2. Move the transform point to the top left 0:0

    3. Now use your mouse and drag-resize that movieclip to something around 1000px wide 

    3. Now you should see that the registration point has moved. 

     

     

    Side effect: Because of this, the x/y positions gets affected on the consecutive drag-resizes, which is really annoying of you're working in whole pixels

     

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    JakobSternbergAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 17, 2022

    I meant:  "transformpoint has moved."

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