ActionScript 2.0 :: HitTest Of Actual Picture Rather Than The _x/_y Portions?
Jun 25, 2005
I am quite a way through creating my own game from scratch and i have smacked straight-on, head first into a triple layer brick wall.As it is I have my hitTest code(Below.) which detects a hitTest on the _x and _y positon of my car MC. The code is placed on the background, however, as the car mc is large it overlaps the wall when they are driving, until the _x and/or _y position are colliding.So, basically, I need it so it goes off the hitTest of my actual picture rather than the _x/_y postions,My code(partial) at the moment;
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x = Math.sin(_root.car.dude._rotation*(Math.PI/180))*_root.speed;
y = Math.cos(_root.car.dude._rotation*(Math.PI/180))*_root.speed*-1;[code]....
I want to make a picture gallery and use buttons that move you from picture to picture and backwards, but I don't want to tell button 1 to go to frame 2 and button 2 to got to frame 3 and so on (I hope you know what I mean)Can I use on button on a separate layer with the same action set? I tried something like that, but it didn't work:
on (release) { thisframe =+1 } [code]........
but it didn't work. I'm kind of new to any action script other than gotAndPlay, easy functions and all that.
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I'm considering taking on a new project for myself - nothing particularly major - but I've a few questions that I'm certain anyone with some serious experience with Flash might be able to answer for me or perhaps (hopefully) guide me in the right direction for alternatives.
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URL to the Flash SWF movie file: http://s0.2mdn.net/1608548/umhs11_specialty_cancertreatment_728x90.swf (AS2, published as Flash 8)
I do not have the .FLA file.Would that be needed to troubleshoot this issue further?I know I'm probably not using the correct terms exactly, etc,
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as layer
Code: stop(); var nextImage:Timer = new Timer(3000); nextImage.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,playNext); nextImage.start();
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is some thing like i have a menu as the background, then if i click the picture, another menu rollover the background picture covering ard 40% of the background.any1 can lead the road for me >< me jus start learning AS3 ><
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I am trying to get the stage width of the FLA in as3. Obviously, stage.stageWidth works well, the only issue is that when viewing the the SWF in an HTML page when you are zoomed in or out it gives you the relative width of your current view. For example, my stage width is 800x600 and when I trace out the stage.stageWidth it is showing up as 800 as long as I am viewing in my browser at 100 percecent, but once I zoom out in my browser the stageWidth gets traced out as a smaller number. Does anyone know how I can dynamically get the stageWidth of the FLA and have it not change regardless of how you are viewing the HTML page
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var b:Sprite = new Sprite(); b.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000); var r:Rectangle = text.getCharBoundaries(4);
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In AS2 it would be:
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var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var myListener:Object = new Object (); mcLoader.addListener(myListener); mcLoader.loadClip("mainLoader.swf","externalLoader_mc");
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How can i load the URLRequest into an actual movieclip as i have done in AS2? As far as i know the load function only accepts one variable. ATM the external swf im loading is just going into thin air and i can't get anything to happen (i have the functions created to deal with the events btw).
Edit: Just fixed it by adding externalLoader_mc.addChild(myLoader);
