Newbie Rotation Issues

Question

I've looked around the forum (probably not hard enough) and
I'm still looking, but I haven't seen this question pop up
anywhere. My problem is that I would like to have a movie clip
rotate around a static focal point while also being able to move
up, down, left, right, without changing the point on the screen in
which it rotates from. I'm trying to find ways to clarify what I
mean, but I'm having trouble right now. If this doesn't make sense,
then let me know. I will try and rephrase it better. Thank you.
Redux.

Answer 1

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Redux112358 wrote:
> I've looked around the forum (probably not hard enough)
and I'm still looking,
> but I haven't seen this question pop up anywhere. My
problem is that I would
> like to have a movie clip rotate around a static focal
point while also being
> able to move up, down, left, right, without changing the
point on the screen in
> which it rotates from. I'm trying to find ways to
clarify what I mean, but I'm
> having trouble right now. If this doesn't make sense,
then let me know. I will
> try and rephrase it better. Thank you.
how about some drawing using or screen shot of something like
that ?
Can't really picture what is that you try to do.
Or perhaps something like that in real life to take sample
from ?
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Okay, heres my real life example. Take a pen/cil and paper.
Take the pen and make a dot in the center of the paper and hold the
pen on that dot. Now if you were to spin/rotate that paper it would
naturally want to rotate around the pen. Now if you were to move
the pen an inch away from that dot and again tried to rotate the
paper, the paper would, again, want to rotate around that pen. THIS
is what I want to have happen. Instead, in my flash, the "paper"
rotates around the original dot. So, my question is, how to I place
that dot elsewhere.
If this is still unclear I will try photos next time.