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Creating a radar screen
I'm trying to create an animated 'radar screen', that has a continually rotating direction bar. To rotate it nicely I created a group with a transparent circle and a radius line, to sit over the top of my circular screen graphic. Then my idea was to convert this to a dial. SL didn't like it all that much; it grays out when I try to drag any of the dial handles. But is this way of doing things possible in any case? If I set the dial's variable to successive values with triggers along the timeline, will it rotate?
Is there a better way of doing this?
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Hi John,
Some time ago I prepared a radar animation for my game, unfortunately, I can't share the whole game so here is a preview
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/70c29748-75b4-47a0-81c7-967079548fbc/reviewand the file attached.
1 image or shape, circle animation and 2 triggers to loop the animation.
Lopping animation is best the Dial only has 3 turns possible , Adam's example looks greats
You can hack that by resetting the dial's variable to 0 when the variable changes if the variable is = to your highest number in the dial. This lets you spin it for as long as you like.
That's extremely helpful Adam, thank you!
Thanks for your advice also Phil.
Cheers
Nice example!
