Rotation Trouble With Gimp

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Keedo420
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I've finally discovered why I'm having such trouble keeping my small ships centered when doing their facing rotations. It is a bug/design flaw with the Arbitrary Rotation tool. Here's a few screenshots to show the problem. In this first screenie, you can see the PREVIEW of the rotation before I hit the rotate button. Note that it is not highlighting a thin slice along the bottom and right edges....
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And here is the actual rotation after I hit the rotate button....
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This tiny offset is not noticeable on the larger ships since it is only off by about 1 pixel most of the time. I have come up with a temporary, but annoying solution by putting the image into window twice the needed size to make sure no part of the image is clipped after rotation and then copy/pasting it to a window of the needed size and centering the image manually before anchoring it.
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This works, but basically doubles the amount of time it takes to do the facings for the small ships. If anyone knows of a better way or another free program for doing the facings of a 2d image, please let me know.
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RPC
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Location: Hmm... I'm confused. Anybody have a starmap to the Core?

Thanks for bringing this up. I was thinking about going full 2d for Star Network after seeing Starfarer but I didn't know that rotate was a bit quirky.
Mind making a tut for the wiki on making 2d graphics? :D
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Keedo420
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No problem. I am using GIMP 2.4 at home since the limitations of my current computer prevent me from ugrading my copy of Windows XP to include service pack 3 which is required by the latest version of GIMP for Windows XP installations. It's possible the rotation problem is no longer an issue in the latest version, but I haven't looked into it yet. I'll try to work up a 2d graphics tutorial for the wiki if you want me to, but I'm only good at manipulating existing images. I won't be able to give any tips on creating a 2d ship from scratch. It might be a few days before I get around to it though.
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