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    NinjadoodleNinjadoodle Member
    edited October 2015 in General questions
    Hi guys

    When adding anchor points to movie clips, do they have to be added one by one fro each frame (like below)?
    local frames = {}
 
	frames[1] = Bitmap.new(pack1:getTextureRegion("lightbulbAnim0001.png", true))
	frames[2] = Bitmap.new(pack1:getTextureRegion("lightbulbAnim0002.png", true))
	frames[3] = Bitmap.new(pack1:getTextureRegion("lightbulbAnim0003.png", true))
 
	frames[1]:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0)
	frames[2]:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0)
	frames[3]:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0)
    Thank you in advance!
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    • piepie Member
      @Ninjadoodle I think so, since MovieClip is Sprite based, and Sprite natively doesn't support setAnchorPoint (while Bitmap does).
      However in giderosCodingEasy there is a Sprite:setAnchorPoint() method that should enable this feature on MC too :)
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    • keszeghkeszegh Member
      if all of your bitmaps are of the same size then using setAnchorPosition (note that it's not Point but Position) should work:

      myMc:setAnchorPosition(myMc:getWidth()/2,myMc:getHeight()/2)

      does it?
      Longtitle Productions, creator of
      Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
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    • NinjadoodleNinjadoodle Member
      edited October 2015
      Hi @pie

      Thanks for the reply!

      I think I am using giderosCodingEasy (its in my project folder), because I can set a anchor points for sprites.

      It however doesn't seem to work with mc.
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    • NinjadoodleNinjadoodle Member
      Hi @keszegh

      Ahh, that world make sense, since myMc is kind of like a container for all the frames.

      Thanks for the tips!
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    • NinjadoodleNinjadoodle Member
      Hi @keszegh

      I've tried ...

      myMc:setAnchorPosition(myMc:getWidth()/2,myMc:getHeight()/2)

      and also

      myMc:setAnchorPoint(myMc:getWidth()/2,myMc:getHeight()/2)

      but neither one works.
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    • keszeghkeszegh Member
      edited October 2015 Accepted Answer
      it seems to work for me after a quick test, remember to call
      myMc:setAnchorPosition(myMc:getWidth()/2,myMc:getHeight()/2)
      before calling any setscale etc things.
      and if you want to have "frames[1]:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0)" effect then of course do
      myMc:setAnchorPosition(myMc:getWidth()/2,0)

      but all in all
      for key,value in pairs(frames) 
frames[key]:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0)
end
      is not that much of a hassle, so you can stick with it if that works.
      Longtitle Productions, creator of
      Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
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    • NinjadoodleNinjadoodle Member
      Thank you, this helps a lot!

      Using the for loop, will be the easiest in my case :)
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