Resizing a Parent Sprite Without Resizing the Child Sprite
Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 26th, 2009A co-worker approached me with a problem today. He wanted to resize a parent Sprite (or MovieClip, DisplayObject, etc) without resizing the child Sprite. So, in a nutshell, here's how you do it:
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ACTIONSCRIPT:
_mcParent._mcChild.scaleX = 1 / _mcParent.scaleX;
_mcParent._mcChild.scaleY = 1 / _mcParent.scaleY;
_mcParent._mcChild.x = _nChildStartX / _mcParent.scaleX;
_mcParent._mcChild.y = _nChildStartY / _mcParent.scaleY;
And here's a simple demo [...]
