ActionScript 2.0 :: Finding X And Y Coordinates Of A MC

Oct 6, 2011

I have made a few posts now, and I'd like to especially Prid for not only answering them, but for giving me guidance on how to learn AS2. I am progressing very nicely, and have made a couple of simple games without any tutorials, but theres one thing I couldn't find. I have this character which can move, up and down, left and right. I also have an enemy trying to shoot at him. However, this enemy needs to know where the character is. I already have the shooting code (Prid), but it was for shooting in the direction of the mouse. What I need now is to replace the bit of code that finds the mouse coordinates with code that finds the coordinates of the player.

The shooting code is on the frame (doubt that is important to say, but still) and the instance AND name of the Character is, well, Character. So basically, I need a code to calculate coordinates of a movie clip that does not have a fixed position. Oh and one more thing, should I post simple stuff like this in the beginner section, because I've seen waaay more complicated stuff there than in the AS2 section.

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