Drawing a perfect circle that rotates
Hi
I tried to draw a circle while holding down the Shift-key. Then centered it inside a MovieClip named 'circle_mc'
Every frame I'm rotating it like this:
circle_mc.rotation += 5;
That seems pretty simple but the circle is not perfectly round. Why?
You can see the result here:
http://boostmode.com/dev/circle/circle.html
Any ideas?
Thanks
Rolf
I didn't find a solution to drawing the circle withing Flash. However I did manage to get a perfect circle by drawing the circle in Illustrator CC and then copy it and paste it in Flash.
Thanks for the help. And thanks for duplicating the experiment Ned.
I'm a little disappointed with Flash drawing capabilities.
Heres the new circle drawn in Iluustrator:
http://boostmode.com/dev/circle/circle2.html
And the old one drawn in Flash:
http://boostmode.com/dev/circle/circle.html
Rolf
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