How do I select& scale/rotate in a certain way?

Hi... actualy I have 2 questions...

1.) I have many objects quite close together...and If I like to select a small one, it selects always the bigger one...or the one in higher z-order. Even if I go to click on OBJECT panel on it, and I like to move it, it go to be deselected, selecting again the bigger...can I somehow freeze a selection to move a object ...did U understand what I mean...or maybe "hide" objects for a moment...

2.) How can I scale/rotate more sprites like one big sprite...for example,,..if I made a bridge from many lines...and I like to rotate a selection of 10 lines...each single will be rotated...but I like to rotate it like a entire long line...

thankssss

For 1 you can zoom in to help or move objects to a locked layer.

For 2 select all the objects you want, right click and select "Wrap Selection".

Thnaks

R0J0hound Do you know any way of emulating the functionality of "wrap selection" during runtime? I had a physics game I stopped worked on because I couldn't figure out how to scale the compound object like "wrap selection".

Thanks!

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If you have a center (centerX, centerY) and scale factor you could do it like this:

x = (object.x - centerX)*scale + centerX

y = (object.y - centery)*scale + centerY

width = self.width*scale

height= self.height*scale

Nice! So I could use the midpoint of all object centers as the centerX and centerY? Thanks!!!

Yes, that would work.