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[davidp]

Ok, you guys have been of great assistance so far and now i have yet another Flash related question.

Terms might be taken from game maker (sprite in combination with origin) but i hope you get the point. I'm trying to find out how to set the image xy origin. This is quite easy to do in adobe flash csX, but i can't figure it out in pure flash code.

to illustrate what i mean:



let's say this rectangle is my sprite. its xy originate on 0,0, but I'd like to set it to 32,32 (for rotation purposes, etc). how would i do that?

[grapefrukt]

You can do it the complicated way and use some trigonometry when rotating, but it'll be a bit cumbersome and potentially slow. What I would do is wrap the graphic in another sprite. My standard hiearchy looks a bit like this (in pseudocode)

Code:

public class Player extends Sprite {
  private var _gfx:Sprite;
}

This let's me keep the position of the player separate from the relative position of the players graphics, so, offsetting the _gfx object's coordinates by 32 on each axis will give the effect you desire.

This also makes it easier to switch your graphics to say a Movieclip or a Bitmap, since it's all internal to the class.

[st33d]

In CSX you generally have a Bitmap inside a Sprite like grapefrukt says.

But if you're unfamiliar with it already, you should look at the Transform object that is a property of all DisplayObjects in Flash:

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/geom/Transform.html

In particular, look at the Matrix property. This object is connected to your Sprite's rotation and position.

[davidp]

yes, i thought i'll end up with matrixes eventually

i'll take both suggestions in consideration.

thank you.