Creating a control using Knobman

Hi all,

Is it possible to have a draggable rotary control ?

I have been using this to generate sprite sheet for animation.

g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

This would be great for all kinds of healthbars/controls etc.

I am wondering if I can link the mouse x +/- to the animation frames and alter a parameter such as opacity.

It would presumably have to work with on clicked and drag up/down.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JKID.

You're essentially recreating the wheel with frames since all graphical objects can be rotated.

newt

Yes your are right, however using Knobman allows for lighting effects etc so that's the reason I would like to get this working rather than rotating a single object.

I suppose it would be possible to link rotation min/max to animation frames to achieve this ?

That must be what your implying no ?

Thanks for your help newt.

JKID.

So do you plan on making 360 frames?

Thanks newt

36 would be enough for 360 changing the frame every 10 I guess although in the case of a pot it would go from -145 to 145 degrees.

It would be 29 frames I think.

How would one go about setting this up ?

I suppose you could increment the frames on a percent basis ?

I am wondering if this might be a good behavior preset.

JKID.

I'd also seriously recommend against using set frames. Why go through all that hassle for a bit of trickery?

Using rotation towards a dummy object that uses the drag-and-drop behaviour, you can quickly put together a rotating dial as you can see in this example (taken from a metronome app I made a little while ago).

For the directional emboss (which doesn't rotate), I used an object with transparency overlaid on the dial. I think the effect is convincing enough, and I imagine you could extend it to some simple lighting effects.

If you are totally set on the masochistic practice of creating 30-odd frames for your dial, you could create an event to set its animation frame every tick to int(Dial.Angle/10)-1, with the frames loaded up in the correct order and the animation speed set to zero.