ActionScript 3.0 :: Create A New MovieClip And Add Sprites?
Jun 17, 2011
I'm attempting to create a new MovieClip and add sprites in using actionscript, the issue is i want them to form an animation and so would have to add the sprites on different frames.
The code I have I thought would work but then I realised you cant gotoAndStop further than the last frame that currently exists within a MovieClip - so all my objects are on the frist frame of the MovieClip. Meaning that I'd have to create frames when creating the new MovieClip.
ActionScript Code:
var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
for (var i:int = 0; i < tilesForClip.length; i++) {
mc.gotoAndStop((delay * i) + 1);
var tile:Bitmap = drawTile(tilesForClip[i]);
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