Steven

I'd like to create a dial which uses a single rotating image. It'll be a large image, around 800x800 pixels. It doesn't need to animate like the knob example in pictctrl, simply rotate. It would be crazy to do multiple frames... and I'd like at least a 360 degree level of resolution.

Anyone got any tips? I've been searching the forums and maxobjects.com but haven't found anything that does this.

image-based-dial

Do it in Jitter: rotate a videoplane with the dial image on it. in a 

pwindow you can get the mouse position & use that or jit.gl.rotate to 

On Jun 8, 2008, at 20:47, Steven Taylor wrote:

> I'd like to create a dial which uses a single rotating image. It'll 

> be a large image, around 800x800 pixels. It doesn't need to animate 

> like the knob example in pictctrl, simply rotate. It would be crazy 

> to do multiple frames... and I'd like at least a 360 degree level of 

> Anyone got any tips? I've been searching the forums and 

> maxobjects.com but haven't found anything that does this.

Do it in Jitter: rotate a videoplane with the dial image on it.  in a  
pwindow you can get the mouse position & use that or jit.gl.rotate to  
move it....

>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to create a dial which uses a single rotating image. It'll  
> be a large image, around 800x800 pixels. It doesn't need to animate  
> like the knob example in pictctrl, simply rotate. It would be crazy  
> to do multiple frames... and I'd like at least a 360 degree level of  
> resolution.
>
> Anyone got any tips? I've been searching the forums and  
> maxobjects.com but haven't found anything that does this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve


Image based dial