I have an island that is shapped akwardly. I drew an outline with a fat pen and made it a movieclip calling it boundery2. the problem is when hittest goes off, iit says my character is always hitting boundery2, because it is now a giant BOX rather than my outline
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I'm making small interactive games in flash to learn AS3,I need to check the collision between the player and the wall which is normally simple using the hitTestObject function.But now I made a wall object totally surrounding the player with corridors and turn, a collision playground so to speak. Now when I use the hitTestObject function to check whether the player is in collision with the wall it tells me it always collides supposedly because the player object is within the bounds of the wall object.So assuming that I'm correct about the error:How can I prevent getting a collision when I'm inside the bounds of the wall object but not touching the actual walls in that object?
View 2 RepliesLet's say a have an instance of a class, which has lots of instances of other classes inside it, and those classes also have a complex structure. There are many different listeners attached to all of them.Is there a way to destroy the topmost class instance without deleting all instances and listeners inside it, and instances with listeners inside it and so forth?Example:
ActionScript Code:
package {
import mcs;
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I'm creating a menu bar that is a movieclip and inside the movieclip consists of the buttons.Now the menu bar is twice as WIDE as what is visible on the stage.The only part you can see is the text 'menu' on a bar.Then when the mouse hits the bar, it flies across the screen to the otherside of the bar where the menu buttons are.Now the menu bar does its animation over 20 frames - the last frame being the frame where the menu buttons are now visible.
On the last frame i have the 'stop;' code
On the first frame I have this code:
Code:
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
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A can't seem to get this creating movieclip thing, or attach movieclip. What I want is when a certain button is pressed, a MC in the library is created on the work area, at the mouse location and will continue to follow the mouse untill it is clicked. Once clicked, it stops dragging, but if clicked again, another MC on the screen will gotoAndStop(2); and so on. I have most of the script idea down. But I can't seem to get the create new MC to work.
View 4 RepliesIv'e got a problem, when creating a movieclip inside a movieclip. I create 5 movieclips dynamically... I want a clickable tag/box on each of these moviclips...
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I've created a movieclip using actionscript and the output recognizes the MC, however, I am unable to see it. Here's the code:
[AS]_root.createEmptyMovieClip("scroller", this)
_root.scroller.beginFill(0x00FF33, 100);
_root.scroller.endFill();
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[code]will create an instance of the movieclip "levelUp_mc" and play it.I have the same code in a function in a class, but it doesn't do anything. What is going on?
View 2 RepliesI have a script that create and positions a lot of movieclips (almost 2000) in an isometric perspective. These movieclips are in fact each grid of the big isometric movieclip. Okay...The thing is... can I create these grids and positions them and then export it all already created and positioned into and external SWF with all properties or someway to cache this script?I think if I put all movieclips manually and position them manually too... the compilation could be faster and the drag stuff could be faster too.
View 1 RepliesI am making a bar of 4 different movie clip buttons in a row. Like "- - - -" and what happens is when you hover over them they expand and show content of what they are labeled. "info" hover over shows content. But the problem is, whenever let say hover over Contact, The "Info" title on the bar next to it will show. I'm unaware of how to make it so the "Content BOX" is above the rest of the hover links. All the hover links are all into one layer, in a movie clip. (So I can toggle the whole button bar from left to right.)
View 0 Repliesi am creating a frogger game, my problem is how to create a duplicate movieclip which is the car and how to generate it randomly that wont hit or overlap another car...here is my code and .fla
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL;
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Is it possible to define the properties of a movieclip by clicking a button and then to play the movieclip by pressing another button.
for example:
clicking on buttonA defines the sizeA of a circle clicking on buttonB defines a second sizeB of the same circle clicking on buttonC makes the circel growing from sizeA to sizeB
this I need for 25 different circles which shoud grow at the same time
I am creating one new empty movieclip like this,this.createEmptyMovieClip("vjn", this.getNextHighestDepth());
vjn.beginFill(0x000066);
vjn.moveTo(150, 50);
vjn.lineTo(50, 250);
vjn.lineTo(250, 250);
vjn.lineTo(150, 50);
vjn.endFill();
these lines are creating only the square corner, but i want rounded corner. How can i increase or decrease the radius size. How to create the rounded corner through script.
Basically when I place multiple items on the stage, each one will have it's own movie clip. The name of the movie clip is stored in a xml file. How do write something along the lines of "itemMC = new xml.items[1].movieClipName"?
PS: Kinda off the topic but what's the datatype of stage?
Say that i have a variable called explosion when this variable is set to yes i'd like it so that whenever you press the screen with the left mouseclick it "creates" a movieclip where you clicked that in the library is named bomb (or duplicate the movieclip from off screen if that is easier)
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to add a custom object to the stage by calling a function like this:
Code:
var effectName:String = new String("Explosion");
var thisObject:MovieClip = //some movie clip class, like an enemy
addFX(effectName, thisObject);
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How can i turn a string value into a movieclip?
I'm having trouble creating multiple instances of one movieclip. I've got an array set up that loads photos into flash and places them in a grid (sort of). I want those photos to have outlines around them. So, i created an outline. Now, when i try to place it on all of the photos, it will run through them and only apply itself to the latest photo (one instance overwrites the others). How do i make multiples of the outline?
View 1 RepliesI need to create a variable inside a MoveClip. The easiest way to do this is to click on a movieclip in the editor and just enter the actionscript on a frame, but because i'm doing this with dynamically created movieclips i need to do it with actionscript.
PS: I'm doing it for sorting purposes in a slideshow.
This has served me well, but I've been designing a new sight and wanted to get more into Action Script to control functions to help improve both my programming and keep my file size down.
So I decided to create an instance of a block (rectangle shape as another movieclip) and have multiple layers. One which controls the actions of two other blocks. The upper most block would not be visable until I ran the cursor over it (increase its Alpha property from 0 to 100 one step at a time in a loop). This would reverse when the cursor ran off (reduce Alpha property from 100 [or less] back to 0 in a loop).
I've read and re-read every flash book I own on the subject and cannot understand why I can't control another instance of a different movieclip.
I have a movie clip (Dropped_mc) which I would like to drop it when it goes up to a certain level? What is the code to achieve this effect?
View 6 RepliesI am trying to create two actions, one when my mouse is over my button and two when my i click my button, I am having a bit of trouble with my action script below, any advise:
function buttonOver(event;MouseEvent)void{
button.gotoAndPlay("over");
} function buttonOut(event;MouseEvent)void{
button.gotoAndPlay("out");
} button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,buttonOver);
button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,buttonOut);
I use the code below to create 3 movie clips.
var A:Array = new Array();
for (var i:uint = 0; i < 3 ; i++) {
A[i] = new hayvanSec();
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I am creating one new empty movieclip like this,this.createEmptyMovieClip("vjn", this.getNextHighestDepth());
vjn.beginFill(0x000066);
vjn.moveTo(150, 50);
vjn.lineTo(50, 250);
vjn.lineTo(250, 250);
vjn.lineTo(150, 50);
vjn.endFill();
these lines are creating only the square corner, but i want rounded corner. How can i increase or decrease the radius size. How to create the rounded corner through script.
I am trying to make a class that extends the movie clip class. I want to essentially have a movie clip class that has a "handle" by which I mean a settable reg point by referring to a parent container movie clip. I have many parts of it working. I have functions that can move the handle/parent to any location on the screen, one that centers, and a move method that moves the movie clip by moving the parent so it is being moved by the origin you specify etc.
But one thing I would like to have the handledMovieClip class to do is to make the handled movie clip and then automatically generate the parent movie clip with the same name appended with "h" and put the handledMovieClip into the parent MovieClip. The parent movie clip should then be accessible by actions on the main timeline. Suppose that the movieclip name is MC so then the parent would be called MCh. I do this by making a new movie clip and then changing the name to "MCh".
But when I try to use the dot syntax from the main time-line it doesn't seem to know the object. So I can't do something like "trace(MCh.width);". I can get what I want by creating the handled movie clip and then the parent and then putting the handledMovieClip into the parent with addChild. It works if I do it from the main time line, but not if I try to do the exact same thing within the class constructor. I thought it would be a nice feature if the user only had to make the handledMovieClip and if the parent was generated by the class constructor automatically.
I have some AS which loops through a section of XML and creates an MC for each entry. I now need to add some text (from the XML) and a dotted line to each MC. Which I'm not sure how to do with AS. So I think it would be easier if I created the 'template' MC on the timeline (or library?) which would then be 'duplicated' as necessary. But how would I do this in AS3?
This is my code at the moment:
ActionScript Code:
for (var i:Number=0; i<mainXML.images.length(); i++) {
var motionImgMC = new MovieClip(); // create an MC.
motionImgMC.name = "mc_" + i; // give new MC a new instance name
motion.addChild(motionImgMC); // add new MC to featured
motionLoader.addItem(mainXML.images.[i],
motionImgMC, {title:"Images"}); // add image in XML to new MC
// push each mc into an array so you can access them from outside this function
motionImgsArr.push(motionImgMC);
}
It is posible to create multiple movieclip in stage by clicking one button with different instance name.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to define a hitArea without creating a new movieclip? I want to define by using xMin, xMax, yMin, yMax.
View 2 RepliesI am creating one new empty movieclip like this,
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these lines are creating only the square corner, but i want rounded corner. How can i increase or decrease the radius size. If its possible please mention the problem.How to create the rounded corner through script. I want rounded corners not a square corner......
I'm currently trying to program a flash game using actionscript 3.0 where users would step on insects. Basically, I added multiple instances of insects movieclip and remove them by using hitTest function. When the mouse_mc. hitTestObject(insect), there were times the insect was not removed.
Here are the errors I encountered:
Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/swapChildren()
at SteppingGame/hitTest()
Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at insectmc/onEnterFrameEvent_SF()
Also, is there anyway I could simply my code like creating multiple arrays of movieclip insectmc?
Here's my as3 code:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.ui.Mouse;
import flash.display.Sprite;
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I try to create multiple text fields in a movieclip. However, the one created later always overwrite the one created immediately before it. Below is the code in the first and only frame in the application:
create2TextFields();
function create2TextFields()
{
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc",this.getNextHighest Depth());
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The code is writen in AS2 and Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and tested with Flash Player 10.
When I ran it in Flash Player 10, I only saw message2 displayed on the stage. When I stepped through the app in Adobe Flash Professional CS5, I found that as soon as message2 text field was created, message1 text field which was being displayed on the stage disppeared.