I'm trying to get a movie clip to follow a guide layer using action script. One thing that I have to do is "Create a movieclip and put it on a guide layer. Have it go along the path."
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one thing that i have to do is "Create a movieclip and put it on a guide layer. Have it go along the path."
I'm trying to get a movie clip to follow a guide layer using action script.one thing that i have to do is "Create a movieclip and put it on a guide layer. Have it go along the path."
View 1 RepliesNew to actionscripting, have focused on the graphic end of things until now so apologies for the noobish question...I have a star that runs along a guide layer to draw a shape, I would love to duplicate the movie of the star so that it trails along the guide layer to leave a trail of stars along that path.
View 1 Replieshow i can make an object move threw a specific path without using guide layers?
View 2 RepliesHow do I move a graphic symbol along a motion guide dynamically. The guide is on a lyer of an mc residing on the _root. The graphic symbol is just below on another layer. The effect is to have the graphic symbol (a ball) appear to move randomly from the start of the motion guide a random distance along the motion guide and then change directions randomly. So the symbol would move a random number of points in one direction along the path then change direction and move a random number of points in the other direction while never actually leaving the stage.
The motion guide is NOT to be removed or drawn dynamically as it is the exact shape of the landscape in an image I use in the background of the overall animation so either the timeline needs to be manipulated for that mc or the symbol that is moving along the motion guide needs to be directed along the path dynamically.I tried the following code which I placed in the first frame of an action layer of the mc (mc resides _root) just above motion guide layer and it did not solve
_root.dot_ball_main_mc.onEnterFrame = function () {
var myVar:Number = Math.random()*(1-30)+30;
if (_root.dot_ball_main_mc._currentframe == myVar){
[code].....
I'm trying to move an object along circlular motion guide dynamically using two buttons -- a left button, when pressed down, will move the object counter clockwise, and the right button clockwise.
View 2 RepliesI have a bouncing ball movie clip that is being controlled by a guide layer. As the ball bounces I am rotating both the guide layer movieclip and the ball movieclip.
I need to find out where the ball is in relation to the stage. When I look at the balls x and y values they are in relation to the guide layer movieclip.
Is there a way to relate the location of the ball to stage coordinates as it rotates?
I was wondering if there is a way to dynamically add a guide to a movieclip, and then let another movieclip follow this guide.
Put another way: i want a "highlight" movieclip to follow the bounds of another movieclip as shown here[url]...
i am trying to rotate a graphic that is following a guide path,
this.leaf._rotation +=2;
this successfully rotates the object but it stops moving along the path,
if i dont put this code in then it moves along the path fine,
how to get them both to work at the same time?
I need some AS2 actionscript that I can place on a button to move it to the front on rollover. and move it to the back on rollout.I have two identical buttons on a layer in my timeline. When you roll over a button a larger text box appears ontop of it. The text box is the rollover state on the button, which is a button symbol. This works great in itself, but the problem is that the buttons are place close together and when one button gets rolled over and the text box encroaches on the other button's space. I always want the text box and button you are rolling over to appear in front of the other buttons that are on that layer. But that's not possible, since one button will be in front and one will be behind. Is there some AS2 actionscript that I can place on each of the buttons to move the button you roll over to the front?
View 1 RepliesI made a movie on the main timeline that involves a couple armature layers. Now I want to put the whole thing into a single movie clip. Flash won't let me, because apparently I can't use the Cut Frames command when armatures are involved.
View 2 Repliesi am making a scroller and need to have it so that when you hover on the up or down buttons, then it will keep moving the designated layer up or down. right now the event handler i am usiing (onRollOver) doesnt really work right because it only moves one pixel, then you need to roll off and roll back on.... i am thinking there must be some do... while statement for the rollover action but i cant find it...
View 7 RepliesDon't know if the flash layer on the view stack contain only the compiled flash swf file
View 1 RepliesIs there a way (in AS2) to copy a layer into movieclip?
View 2 Repliesi have a movieclip that i'm calling from the library, that i'm playing on the ROOT. i was wondering, since its played from the library, is there a way to tell it above which layer to play? for example, i want it to play under the LOGO layer, but above the Background layer..
View 29 RepliesWhat is the quickest way to take a movie clip off of one layer and onto a new layer made below it. I need to keep its location on stage exactly the same. I am currently selecting it, jotting down its x and y position, then dragging it out from library onto the new layer and setting it to these coordinates, but if I could do this another quicker way, as I have quite a few to do, it would make life easier.
View 3 RepliesI do Flash web banners, and use the following code to create a button for the link that publications set up on their end:
var myBtn:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("myBtn",this.getNextHighestDepth());
var lineThickness:Number = 2;
var lineColor:Number = 0x00A1E4;
[code].....
Ok, I know layers dont exist once compiled and that duplicated movieclips cannot be duplicated to new levels but I need some kind of work around here.
I cannot use the library as the movieclip I am duplicating is dynamically generated by actionscript (a graph based on user input over time) and thus cannot be made by me beforehand as it varies.
I need to somehow make a duplicate of this on a layer above the where the original was made, anyone know how this is possible?
Lets say i use the code below to add the player movieclip into the gamelevel instance.
gamelevel.addChild(player);
When the player movieclip is added it is 'on top' or infront of the gamelevel instance.
Now i know you can simply move a particular instance back to the front with the addChild() function. However since i am adding Player1 into the gamelevel instance, this does simply nothing.
How can i add the player into a particular layer in the gamelelve instance?
I was wondering, in flash MX, if there was any way to treat one whole layer as a movie clip. It would just be much easier for me if it was possible to do this.
View 0 RepliesI've read that it's easier to simply put all the actions that you will be using on one layer of the whole .fla, so it will be easier to configure and change settings. Well I've been trying to do that, and I'm kinda new at it, like I can get around with putting actions on movieclips, but now since I've started doing it this way, I've had some troubles... For example
ActionScript Code:
player_mc.onLoad = function(){
playerSpeed = 5;
playerHealth = 50;
player_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
[Code] .....
That's simply a character moving script, but it doesn't seem to be working for me, and I think it's because it's on the Actions layer and not on the movieclip...
I'm very new to Flash and after searching for a solution to looping a layer I understand this is best done by creating a new Movie Clip and creating the animation to be looped here. I've done this, and then placed the Movie Clip into a layer on the Scene... but it just won't play at all. It acts like I've placed just the symbol that shows in frame 1 of the Movie Clip and it remains static.
View 3 RepliesI wanted to create a rain movieclip with the actionscript below, but i wanted the rain to appear at the back of a layer. How do i change the script?
//Creating an empty movieclip to attach the clip from library
_root.spring_mc.rain_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("hold er",this.getNextHighestDepth(0));
//settig variables
[code]......
I have an movieclip on stage, and its' instance name is called "mc_mask".In my actionscript, I will create a bitmap that will be added to stage with addChild(). How do I add the bitmap behide the mc_mask?
View 8 RepliesI am currently working on a platformer, and I have a bunch of different tiles I use to form my maps with. These tiles are very different in the looks, and placed besides eachother, they give a very sharp change, which is not very visually appealing. I've been trying to fix this in the following way:
I have four layers, two for each block I'm fading. The first layer is where the actual tile, the graphic, is located. The second layer is the mask. In the mask layer, I have a gradient, which is the exact opposite of the other tiles mask layer (Mask layer 1 goes down, mask layer 2 goes up). However, I need to be able to alter those dynamically, place new gradients in the appropriate mask layer, and new tiles in the appropriate graphics layer.
I've been googling around for the last hour or so, attempting to find a way to define which layer a new MovieClip is placed on, but all I've found is setChildIndex, which, since one layer acts as a mask, I can't use. Is there any such function in Actionscript, or am I to make all combinations of tiles by hand?
I don't think Flash is seeing my movie clip grid that I placed on the GRID Layer. When I check syntax it doesn't find anything wrong, when I go to debug in Flash it shows the grid even though I thought I have it set to visible=false. When I set it to true and debug the code it shows the grid as well. When I try to test it in Scaleform for UDK as well, the cursor acts as it should however the grid is invisible, when I change the code for the grid to be visible it still doesn't show up. I provided a screen shot of the entire screen. with as much information I could think of to show including the entire AS code.
Below is the AS code as well. I am using AS2 code.
ActionScript Code:
_global.gfxExtensions = true;
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
Mouse.hide();
startDrag(cursor, true);
var mouseListener:Object = new Object();
[Code] .....
After learning about classes and stuff, I've successfully create a movieclip with XML reading an all thru the use of classes. My problem is when I move to different frames, the movieclip I made stays there blocking whatever there is in the other frame.
Anyway I can hide all those created movieclips when I got to different frame? Maybe by assigning it to a frame/layer maybe?
Just in case you're wondering, I create the movieclip using the following code:
Code:
var header:blogHeader = new blogHeader();
...
this.addChild(header);
i'm currently having a small problem with some Actionscript 2.0 in CS3.I'm following a tutorial to make a simple maze like game URL...I'm currently at step 5 where it's coding the movement and wall detection.. The problem is the tutorial wants me to apply the code directly to the maze/wall movieclip. However as this is for a college project my lecturer will not accept actionscript directly applied to buttons or movieclips.. He basically wants all the script on a seperate actionscript layer. So basically what i'm asking is how and what part of the code do i need to change so it'll still work even though it's on a different layer from the object![code]
View 6 Repliesi CAN'T CLICK on any button, movieclip layer and have actionscript work, it just says "CURRENT SELECTION CANNOT HAVE ACTIONS APPLIED TO IT" what do i have to do so that i can click on my button's and go in action pannel and be able to input my actions without it saying "CURRENT SELECTION CANNOT HAVE ACTIONS APPLIED TO IT"
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