Reorient child MC when parent is orient to bezier

[swiftmend]

Hi,

 

I'd like to have a movie clip that follows a Bezier path with its rotation oriented toward its path as per normal with the usual orientToBezier: true.

 

However the twist is I need a child of that movie clip to have a movie clip that doesn't rotate along with it, so I need to correct its rotation every frame to make it up right.

 

Any ideas on this one?

[Carl]

ahh, this reminds me of my AS3 Code Challenge:

 

http://www.snorkl.tv/2011/06/as3-code-c ... #more-1007

 

the general idea is that you need:

 

onUpdate callback to constantly rotate the child clip

you need an equation in the onUpdate that rotates the child clip the proper amount of degrees.

 

Here is an example:

 

http://snorkl.tv/dev/bezierChild/

 

here is some sample code:

 

import com.greensock.*; 
import com.greensock.easing.*;

TweenMax.to(arm, 3, {bezierThrough:[{x:136, y:115}, {x:209, y:178}, {x:328, y:128}], delay:.5, orientToBezier:true, onUpdate:fixBox});

function fixBox(){
trace(arm.rotation);
arm.box.rotation = 0-arm.rotation;
}

 

fla attached

[swiftmend]

Fantastic, that solved it.