ActionScript 2.0 :: Duplicate MC In Different Location?
Nov 4, 2009
I am trying to duplicate a movie clip several times (to create a wallpaper from a background tile). However I'm running all code from the first frame of the file on the _root level, but the MC I am targeting is nested deeper. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but I just cannot get the duplicated MCs to stay at the same location is the MC I am cloning!
The clip I want to clone is _root.core.bg.tile I want the duplicates to reside in _root.core.bg with names such as...
_root.core.bg.tile_2
_root.core.bg.tile_3 etc
Here's my code:
ActionScript Code:
function preloader()
{
loadImage(global_path + "assets/images/website/construct/wood-texture.png",
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