BATTLE ANIMATION ROTATION IN RM2K3? (UGH, BADLY WORDED. MY APOLOGIES)

The question won't exactly fit in the topic title I suspect.

Anyway, I was wondering if, for the battle animation set, if you wanted to rotate a sword or something around in a circle, would you need to spend 4 or 8 or so of your 25 frames JUST making that thing go around? Or is there some way to take a static sword graphic and rotate it using the in-engine animation editor?

EDIT: Okay, so say I've got this sword here:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1144/example1q.png


Is there any way I can make it go rotate like so (crappy ninety degree turnflips yay. The actual thing would obviously be more fine-tuned, and the blue background transparent):

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7843/example2e.png


in the in-game engine, or will I have to set up my battlesheet like this:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8893/battleexample3.png

Because that would totally suck.

! Alexei403

Yeah, pictures are easy. Ah well. I'll think of something else then.

Thanks for the answer.