How do you change an actor's vertical/horizontal anchor point?

iKandy

They are greyed out in the actor's attributes section.
Is there any way to do this? Change from "bottom left"

Socks

Do you mean the image's anchor point (rather than the actor's anchor point) ?

iKandy

Actors anchor point.

Socks

@iKandy said:
Actors anchor point.

What is the name of the actual attribute, is it called 'anchor point' ?

Armelline

If you're talking about the "Horizontal Anchor" and "Vertical Anchor" under the Graphics section, you need to set the Horizontal and/or Vertical Wrap to "Fixed".

Socks

@Armelline said:
If you're talking about the "Horizontal Anchor" and "Vertical Anchor" under the Graphics section . . . .

That only effects the image rather than the actor itself, I think he means where the actor rotates from (??)

Armelline

@Socks said:
That only effects the image rather than the actor itself, I think he means where the actor rotates from (??)

There are no attributes for that, though - I was guessing since he mentioned greyed out attributes, he meant the image ones.

Socks

@Armelline said:
There are no attributes for that, though - I was guessing since he mentioned greyed out attributes, he meant the image ones.

'There are no attributes for that' - that's what confused me ?

Armelline

@iKandy said:
anchor
They are greyed out
"bottom left"

That's my only reasoning really If he's talking about something else, he's out of luck I suspect it's a confusion between image anchor and actor position/rotation anchor.

Socks

@Armelline said:
If he's talking about something else, he's out of luck

I thought it was a chance to pimp my offset rotation thread/project but I'm not so sure now

Armelline

@Socks said:
I thought it was a chance to pimp my offset rotation thread/project but I'm not so sure now

I think that's what he wants, and is just confusing these attributes with that kind of effect. So pimp away!

iKandy

I am talking about the greyed out attribute for Horizontal/Vertical Anchor (as show above.) Obviously, you can't change them to "right/top" or "center/center" when they are greyed out. But is there a way, to make them not grey and be able to choose from a drop down menu?

floatingwoo

I believe @Armelline said it...
you need to set the Horizontal and/or Vertical Wrap to "Fixed".

Socks

@Socks said:
Do you mean the image's anchor point (rather than the actor's anchor point) ?

@iKandy said:
Actors anchor point.

@iKandy said:
I am talking about the greyed out attribute for Horizontal/Vertical Anchor . . .

There attributes change the image's anchor point rather than the actor's anchor point.

tatiang

What might help this discussion is to explain what you're trying to do with the anchor point. For example, are you needing to swing one actor around another, or change where an image appears or something else entirely?

iKandy

Merely change the anchor point of the actor from "left/bottom" to something else. For instance if I want to orient an actor to angle/direction towards another actor and I would rather have the "right/bottom" point in the direction as opposed to "left/bottom."