Humpbacked circles

**-=Drifter=-** · 20 January 2007, 05:05 PM

I have been trying to animate some gears on a machine drawing, unsuccessfully. The perfectly circular gears all animate (with swf preview in XXPro) all lumpy - not at all circular. I am using the rotate+: notation for the anim.
I tried something more simple - a perfect circle with a fill to tell if it's rotating or not. Same thing - the circle comes out looking like an egg (no offense, Egg).
What's up with this?

**Intbel** · 20 January 2007, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-

I have been trying to animate some gears on a machine drawing, unsuccessfully. The perfectly circular gears all animate (with swf preview in XXPro) all lumpy - not at all circular. I am using the rotate+: notation for the anim.
I tried something more simple - a perfect circle with a fill to tell if it's rotating or not. Same thing - the circle comes out looking like an egg (no offense, Egg).
What's up with this?

You ain't doing it right is what's up

Care to post the file?

**-=Drifter=-** · 20 January 2007, 06:51 PM

This should give you an idea.

**Intbel** · 20 January 2007, 07:11 PM

Looks okay to me

**-=Drifter=-** · 20 January 2007, 07:15 PM

Looks great here. When I open it on my end (xar file) and click on preview in browser I get a totally distorted thing again. Here's your file saved as xar and swf on my end (with new file names) and here's what I see:

**Intbel** · 20 January 2007, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-

Looks great here. When I open it on my end (xar file) and click on preview in browser I get a totally distorted thing again. Here's your file saved as xar and swf on my end (with new file names) and here's what I see:

You have entered (in your post) size 200 x 200.

300 x 300 will cure your problem .
Especially if you put in a background square of about that size