Flash8 :: Continuous Spawning Of Movieclip?
Aug 29, 2009
i'm trying to achieve an effect in which a triangle movieclip (which expands and then dissolves) respawns itself continuously. I'm hoping to figure out how to tell flash to respawn a new instance of the 15-frame movieclip of the triangle, when the original clip hits frame 5. the next one would do the same, and so on and so forth.My research so far has led me to believe this has something to do with the 'addChild' function but i'm so far unsure of what to do with it
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Mar 4, 2009
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function createEnemy(event:TimerEvent):void {
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[Code] .....
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Visual Example:
O = enemy, X = original position, Y = new position
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My inquiry is, if I have a MovieClip with an animation, and I need to play this MovieClip by button, I know I need to use this action // on (rollOver) // telltarget() // play()
but if I want to rollout before the animation reach the last frame, for example the frames are 90 and I decided to rollout in 50.
How I can make the frames go backward to frame 0 after I rollout of the button ??
For your information I have MC flash 8 professional.
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Jul 29, 2009
I've got a movieClip that's scrolling across the stage that loops nicely (kinda like the many cloud animations out there).
I've set the clip up to stop it's scrolling on a rollOver, and start up again on the rollOut.
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Code:
blue.onEnterFrame = function() {
blue._x -= 2;
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I have a movie clip which has a dynamic mask applied to it to provide a scroll effect.
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Also many other links I found all imply it's an issue with dynamic text and the font needs to be embeded, but the underlying text is not dynamic, it's static normal text which has been used in a movieclip to create animated rollover/out effects.
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Also the arrow graphic next to the text which forms part of the animation does display; it's just the text portion which is invisible?
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I want to import a external textfield ( called text2 into a created textfield inside a movieclip. But fo some reasons it doesn�t work. I can�t see the text. but I load an image inside a mc and that work.
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info._x =270;
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May 19, 2009
I am trying to create a movieclip in which different colored birds are flying..I am tring to duplicate two or more MovieClips at the same time..but only either of them Works How should I modify the code so that I can achieve that ?
PHP Code:
function birds() {
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firstEnem y= "bird"+1;
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Apr 26, 2007
resizing movieclip using action script. I doing a resize on the width of the moviclip. What i got is the movieclip resize on center, but i want is on left. the code i use as below:
MovieClip.prototype.resizeMe = function(w) {
var speed = 3;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {[code]......
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Sep 10, 2009
A movie clip called "Symbol_4" contains all of the navigation and frames of my movie.inside of Symbol_4 is a MC called "bottom scroller" which contains "imgbar" which contains "bar" which has a bunch of buttons in it.I want those buttons to link to different frames in the main "Symbol_4" MC.
I've tried putting code on a button like this
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