ActionScript 2.0 :: Tile The Background Of A MovieClip With A Set Of Small Squares Called Grid
May 9, 2007
I'm trying to tile the background of a movieClip with a set of small squares, called grid. However, the script only attaches on instance of grid. I don't understand why this is. Below is my code exert:
I have a MovieClip I named mcGrid and I can't figure how to tile it as a background in my flash project. Is this even possible? If so can someone send me in the right direction.
I am wondering what that effect is called or how to achieve it where let's say I have 6 squares, 3 on top, 3 on the bottom(2x3 matrix) and where if I click one, it gets bigger, and all the other ones get smaller. The problem here is the how they get bigger. If I click the middle square in the top row, it should stay in it's position and grow where as If If I click the bottom right one, it should grow towards the far left side. I'm guessing the registration point needs to be changed dynamically?
I'm work with PS and AI and am a begginer with Flash and currently I'm making this clean cool looking header for a server I play on. This is what it to looks like: [URL]. However I don't know how to make the small squares motion, I want them to "spawn" around the text with alpha slowly growing, not behind the text so it's clean and to move outwards and slowly disappear.
I am trying to tile a small mc instead of a bmp image and I was wondering if anyone knows what aspects of Lee's tutorial need to be changed to accomedate that?
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I tried a couple of things and was not able to get the mc loaded onto the stage.
I'm trying to do a transition that you've probably seen many times. Transitioning one image to another using a grid of squares where each square fades at a slightly different time.I've made a complex movie clip made up of several other movie clips with all the squares fading at the rate I'm looking at. When I just play the color squares it works fine, but the minute I turn that master movie clip into a mask for the image I loose the transition/fade completely--just an on off thing.
I'm trying to fill a grid with different size squares, randomly, and have no overlap. I want my grid to be 100px by 100px. I've tried creating a matrix array (10x10), holding x and y values. My square size is either 10x10, or 20x20. I loop through the matrix randomly picking a square (x,y position) and placing one of the two squares. All of this works fine, but obviously the squares start to overlap.
This is the type of outcome I'm looking for: I tried adding each square to an array, then checking if the current square placed collides (hitTestObject) with an already placed square. This eventually hits true every time, because the square placed matches the same square when placed in the array. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? Place each square but do not have overlap?
I am trying to make a Grid that is equal to the width and the height of the flash movie. I have a movieclip called box which is 30x30, and want it to repead along the x to form columns and along the y to form rows so that it makes a big rectangle of smaller squares. For some reason it looks like this:
I am trying to draw a set number of squares in a grid type layout and have pretty much gotten it to do what I want. The problems is that I want to be able to manipulate each square individually later on and I'm pretty sure I need to assign each one a unique instance name.something like "square_0_0" all the way down to "square_10_10" (it's a 10x10 table of squares).how do assign a unique instance name to each square as it's added to the stage? I attached the code I currently have running.
Notes: - The array is declared else where as a public variable - This is to be part of a game engine I'm building so I want it as flexible as possible - The tiles as reading their properties for an XML file. But I don't want to use the XML to hard code the tiles' positions.
I've got my 3D sphere to triangle collision detection working now, but I need an efficient method of adding the triangles to the broadphase grid.
This is easy enough if the triangles are smaller than the grid nodes, however - especially given the polycounts I'm working with - it's going to be fairly frequent that a triangle is significantly larger than the grid nodes.
Here's an example.See the yellow polygon? Just adding it the grid nodes by it's vertices results in it NOT being added to 4 grid nodes that it does reside in.
My first thought is repeatedly casting rays along one of the edges from the normal of the edge until you find the intersection point with one of the other edges, of course checking for intersections with the grid edges until you reach the destination intersection with one of the other edges of the triangle. This would work, but is not particularly fast.
Although these triangles aren't being added/removed in real time, only when building the level, when constructing a level with say 100,000 polygons total, I obviously want it to be processed as quickly as possible.
I am looking to take a single image and have it fill the screen....then I want the user to be able to pan and zoom in/out , and the image to be tiled into infinity. So eventually the screen will be filled with tons of little versions of this image. I can do the scrolling and stuff, but I don't know how to infinitely tile a background.
Okay, since my stage doesn't take up the whole window when viewing it on the Internet, is there a way to tile a picture in the background? So no matter how big someone's screen is, in the background they will see a tiled picture.
I have a wordpress based site that stores information about an image in a database field called "background" in a table called "wp_postmeta".The 'loader' gets an url such as "/thisImage/background.swf"The "background.swf" should somehow display "background.jpg" instead but since I've changed the field name in the database (from background to temp_background) it doesn't work.I pass variables to the "loader" swf and they are correct based on the new field name but it still isn't working.I need to know if there is anything in the .fla's (and therefore the .swfs) that is pointing to somewhere in the database hard-coded. Basically I need someone to look at them and tell me how they are working.
I have an item renderer for a grid that has a fairly basic updateDisplayList function:
override protected function updateDisplayList( w : Number, h : Number ) : void { super.updateDisplayList( w, h ); var labelWidth : Number = Math.min( _labelDisplay.measuredWidth, w );
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The next time I scroll the renders update to look like they should - but updateDisplayList is NOT called here (on the renderes). All that happens is that the renderers are re-positioned in the grid. Both the background and the label are displayed incorrectly initially so it's not just the label mis-behaving.
I've recently began learning flash after extensive training with photoshop. Anyway, I have created a forum signature, in photoshop. I want to add a small background video into it using flash. I was wondering how I can insert a video into an image in flash. If this is even possible.
If an image is 800 by 600, copy the image's bitmap data and divide the image into, say, 20 by 20 squares, each having a reference to be manipulated later. Im guessing you have to use bitmapdata for that, unfortunately I dont know how to copy bitmapdata from an image's arbitrary x and y coordinates and for a certain width/height.
i have many squares inside a movieclip, and i remove random some of this squares, what i need id: get the real with and heigth of my movieclip, after the squares are removed, i do a little exemplo, and anexed here,
I got 1 movieclip, in that movieclip I got 1 image in 1 layer and in other layer I got one matrix of squares. So then when I mask the image I only get only the images by squares. I am trying to had a motion so that some squares shine over the time.
I'm making a game where you place tiles on a grid. When placing a tile, I need to check the existance of another tile to the left, right, or above and below, otherwise the tile should not be placed.. Here is a function I thought would work, that accepts one variable (the position of the tile just as it is about to be placed) :-
private function checkSurroundingTiles(gridPosition:uint) { var t1 = gridPosition - 12; var t2 = gridPosition - 1; var t3 = gridPosition + 1; var t4 = gridPosition + 12; for(i = 0; i < gridRefArray.length; i++) { var checkTile = gridRefArray[i]; if(checkTile == t1) { return true;
What do the little red squares on the lower left hand corner of the movieclips in the actions panel mean? [Fig. 1]I'm working off this template in Flash CS3, that's using ActionScript 2.0 actually. I don't know whether or not that means anything in regards to the above inquire?
i am using a movieclip who has two nested movieclips, the problem i am dealing is that when i try to get the width or height of the parent movieclip it always showing the values of the small nested movieclip, when i draw the movieclip it draw perfect but when i read this values shows that error, what can i do?
I've got a canvas in my app which I want to be backgrounded with a grid. I suppose, I need to create a DisplayObject with a single grid cell drawn on it and set it as a repeated bitmap fill for the canvas, but I can't figure out how to do that.
I am wokring on a movie and I want to tile a movieclip instead of a bitmap in AS3. I have figured out masking and the bitmap tiling in AS3, but am still encountering trouble finding a good solution for simply tiling an MC symbol across a set width and height in AS3.
I was hoping to get a little guidance from the AS pro's. I have a movieClip that is 500x500 in one of my movies that I would like to add a tiled background to. This tile will be very simple something like 4x4. I have been reading up on the BitmapData class and figured this would be the best way to get this done and use up the smallest file size.But I am not 100% understand if that is the best solution. Anyone have any thoughts? After reading up on full page flash movies I figured that method should be able to be applied to individual movieClips as well.
If possible I would like to tile an image or MovieClip along a line using the standard moveTo() and lineTo() methods, The lines are directional so need to show something similar to >>>>>>>>>>>>>. The lines can be at any angle, so using drawRect() with beginBitmapFill() isn't an option. Also if possible I would like to have the lines animated. Is this possible or will it require a custom class?
I'm loading an external logo (.swf) into a movieclip. The user would actually select what logo to load from a list. After loading the selected logo into the empty movieclip, the user can than apply certain changes such as changing the logo colors, the size, the rotation and the position of the logo over a certain product.What I want to do is to expand on this by allowing the user to select whether they want the logo tiled across the product