Ok, so to explain exactly what I'm seeing: The movieclip graphic following under the mouse is not rotating smoothly. What actually appears to be happening is that the graphic is snapping to 45 degree increments at slow speeds. This only gives eight steps in a rotation. Again, this only happens when the mouse is moving slowly.
When the mouse is moving in a direction that is not exactly ...
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Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Trugas
Ok well I'm not really replacing the mouse cursor exactly. Just placing a custom image of a pointer below it so it will follow the mouse cursor as it moves around the screen. I want this pointer image to move with the mouse and to rotate and point in the direction the mouse is traveling. Simple stuff.
The problem is that the rotation of the pointer graphic is not smooth at all. It is jumpy ...
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Trugas replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Trugas replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ok I think I found the problem. Mouse coords are only integers not numbers. This lack of precision means that the smallest distance the mouse can move on the x or y axis is exactly 1 px (or -1px), of course it can also not move at all (0 px). These values can only give eight solutions (left, right, up, down and the four diagonals). So the graphic will only point in one of these eight directions ...
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