I'm a django(python) web developer. I can also make 2D flash games. I'm planning to make :
online flash games distribute them to various websites then use dynamic in-game ads inside these games( ad changes during game play).
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I'm trying to implement a dynamic starfield into the game blaster mines (chapter 11) from the book "The Essential Guide To Flash Games" (from Jeff and Steve Fulton) but had no success yet. I built a separate starManager.as class and a BasicBlitArrayStar.as class for it. Also I'm using a pool for inactive and active stars (basically I think it's the same method when building the projectiles or rather particles except that the stars move only when the mouse moves (using the same direction).
If u don't know what I mean check out the parallax starfield from [URL]:
freeactionscript.com/2010/06/endless-starfield-parallax-scrolling
Currently it's not working. The inactive pool is full of stars but when I try to draw them on the background I can see absolutely no star. Even when there is an active star available it doesn't draw it on the background. The goal is a starfield that uses similar techniques from the framework like particles and projectiles do. I have some things in mind like getting the child index for creating different star layers but currently I'm not able to realize it properly.
Here are some code excerpts:
starManager.as:
package {
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import com.framework_mod.src.BlitArrayAsset;
import com.framework_mod.src.BasicBlitArrayStar;
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When game page loading , the flash game itself does not appear ( just white area as the holder of the flash game) untill the game almost finish downloading, then it appears .. This long waiting with just white area makes visitors leave, thinking there was nothing there.
View 1 RepliesI am still learning and I am trying to design the game levels for my first game(a platform one).
I have some straightforward questions because I feel I am on the wrong way.
Should each level have its own class ?
The way I am trying to do is, when one finishes the first level I set to null the variables that pertains to that class, unregister all events and remove all children from the stage, call a second level constructor, without declaring any variable, new level2(); and set to true a static var "in order to save" that progress in case one wants to play that level again.
However I see the code becomes messy, I run into issues, and memory management concerns so much.
I searched it for all over the internet but I can't find any tutorial that explain it in details, so I'm trying out many ways of achieving what I want, but now I am really in need of some advices on it to not get lost.
I'm aware there are tutorials online that cover how to make game menus and preloaders for AS3 flash games, but I've found that books are more in-depth for certain topics. Are there books with sections that cover the process of making a preloader and menus for an AS3 flash game?My ultimate goal is to implement a preloader AND game menus without referring to the timeline.
View 1 Replies why I didn't put it into games category. I've got a game, it's mostly OOP. I've only one frame with "include" statement and the rest is in classes. Now I'd like to do a menu.Can I somehow separate the code of buttons inside menu? I add new frame with a menu MC inside and the "stop()" code. The "start game" button has got this code inside:
Code:
on(release)
{
_root.gotoAndPlay("2");
}
In frame 2 there's a playable part of my game. It works but... Can I move this code somewhere else so I can manage all buttons in one place? I tried:
Code:
_root.menu.start_button.on(release)
But it's not working (as if it should...).
I'm implementing a pause function in a game, it stops the main game timer and then dispatches an event ("Game_Paused") to stop a second timer. Both timers stop (and start) correctly but the second one throws a null object reference error.
Here's the ActionScript Code:
private function onAddedToStage(e:Event):void{
_timerD = new Timer(100);
_timerD.start();
_timerD.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onUpdateTime);
stage.addEventListener("Game_Paused", onPauseGame);
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And this is the output:
Code:
Paused Timer=null
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.rtr.game.UI::timer_display/onPauseGame()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.display::Stage/dispatchEvent()
at com.rtr.game::Game_Timer/onKeyDown()
Paused Timer=[object Timer]
What's really confusing me is that the timer is still getting paused correctly, and the trace is showing up in the output before and after the error with two different objects.
I play games on Pogo and have never had a problem with their Flash Games until released Daily Hot Shots. It doesn't load fully and I've done EVERYTHING I know to do to get it to play. No errors show up. I can play ALL the other flash games but this one. When I right click, the name of the site's owners do not show up....I have the settings showing though Not all of the game loads and that's the problem. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling....tried a different browser and have the same exact problem. THIS GAME WILL NOT PLAY.
View 2 RepliesI want to create a game similar to all the reaction time games out there, with the difference that my game has a set amount of time that you as the player will have to guess when it occurs (with a simple click). Each player has a number of tries where the closest time from the set time wins.
View 1 RepliesI have the following code to control the x position of one single movieclip (company_mc) with five button mc's (btn_corporate, btn_dimitriou, btn_cars, btn_cycles, btn_hertz):
Code:
function movoClip(x) {
company_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (x-this._x)/5;
};}
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Now I also want to control tha alpha fade for 5 photo_mc's (photo_corporate, photo_dimitriou, etc etc) So if btn_corparate is pussed photo_corporate should go to alpha 100 and the others to alpha 0. I think it has something to do with a nested loop, but I'm not sure and also don't know how to implement such a nested loop insite the existing loop.
is there any easy way to implement this using Flash ?[URL]
View 4 RepliesI've got a dynamic text box that loads different strings into it under the msgText var right, but the text is like 3 lines long sumtimes. So how can I implement sort of a word wrap kinda thing.
View 2 RepliesI was trying to make a game, and the character inside the game could swim. However, I only wanted him to swim in short bursts that refueled every time he hit the ground.
View 9 RepliesI've remarked on the web that many clips are precede by an advert. Does this advert is added in the code? Or, there is a way to tell the player to play first, the advert, and secondly the movie?
View 5 RepliesWhen I Click on File>New and go to Templates, there is only one category listed: Advertising. Where are the rest and how do I get them?
View 1 Repliesi've been asked to build a slide puzzle for an advertising company. While the puzzle itself will be straightforward they want it to thave a 'solve' button that shows the puzzle animating to the correct finish position from the positition the tiles are currently in (after the user has moved them around). It's a 4x2 grid puzzle.
Any thoughts on the best way to achieve this? Everything i come up with seems unneccessarily complex.
I am trying to create my first semi-serious flash game. The problem I am having is I want to be able to click a button in the players inventory to equip a different armor to the player, and have that armor work in the game on the same movieclip(Player) without having to re-make all the attacks and moves etc. for each change on another movieclip. My ideas are extremely novice like putting each armor and update on a different frame inside the Player movieclip and then doing a gotoAndStop to the frame. Though that may work I don't know how to goto a frame inside a movieclip. I would like to control this using as much code as possible.I would paste my code but I don't have any code for this part of the game so far. I have tried some simple coding but so far I cannot get the pieces together.
View 1 RepliesI am currently working to a Role-Playing Game in Adobe Flash CS3 with ActionScript 2. I must include doors inside rooms, but when I do that, my player dissapears. I use this code:
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for (var i = 0; i<mapHeight; ++i) {
for (var j = 0; j<mapWidth; ++j) {
this.attachMovie("tile","t_"+i+"_"+j,++d);[code].....
I am looking for a walkthrough for implementing a call for a webservice from an swf file, I cant find any..
View 1 RepliesI'm developing a flash registration form and I need to incorporate dynamic 'captcha' images for confirmation.
View 6 RepliesIs it possible to display an html <table> as a table inside an dynamic textarea using .htmlText method ?
And an additional question: is there any other way to display a table inside a text ?
I have a "handmade" button (_btn as instance name), with only a dynamicText inside (or can I say one dynaticText for each of the four button modes). The dynamicText for Up mode has an instance name of "_text".
So if I am working on the AS of the movieClip that contains the button, how can I address the text of the dynamic text?[code]...
I've done a lot of research about css to format a dynamic text inside flash, which is loaded from an xml file, but I just can't figure out why does it never works when I use the loading css code inside flash. I've got the scroll text, and the xml loading ok. But I want to format the text now.. I've attached the files.
View 7 RepliesI have made a flash site using CS3.I bought a preloader online but cant get it to work (not getting any responce from the site where I bought it). It should be straight forward. Copying the loader movieclip to the first frame in my timeline and so on. Gon through the instructions several times and is pretty sure I´m not missing anything.Anyway, when publishong I get the following error message:[code]Warning: 1058: Migration issue: The property _root is no longer supported.This property has been removed. The closest equivalent is the Stage, which serves as the root of the ActionScript 3.0 display list..I do believe the actionscript used in the preloader is v.2 and the project is made in AS3.
View 6 RepliesI need to implement a realtime connection between 2 or more players, that will play a Flash game. I've read that RTMFP is a good choice to make this connection the best possible (were best=less lag between actions), but, I am quite new to this kind of things, what documentation/tutorial/guide you think would be the best to get started and finally make a good implementation of RTMFP?
(Also, I read that there are differents servers or frameworks that provide the same, like Cirrus, Red5, etc, what pros and contras have this?, taking cost into account). I was reading the adobe documentation, there is an example too, but I'd love to see some more flash game based example, even a very basic one, so I can extend that functionality and start making tests. I got it working, now, I need to know how to make a webservice for the peer ID interconnection.
I've got a dynamic text field in my button object. I have named the text field "myText". How can I modify the text within it? myButton.myText.text = "test"; won't work, because it can't access myText.
View 2 RepliesSo, my code is as follows (not exactly though)
Code:
function setMyData(){
var setData:URLRequest = new URLRequest(//function);
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I'm starting with AS3, i have a problem. I have a button, and inside the button i have a dynamic text field. The button is inside of a movieclip, the instance name of it is News, the instance name of the button is collegamento and the instance name of the dynamic text is Testo. So knowing this I'm triyng to change the content of the text using:
News.collegamento.Testo.htmlText="text here";
But Flash is giving me this error:
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property
Testo not found on
flash.display.SimpleButton and there
is no default value. at
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I am a newbie in Flash CS3. How to resize the width of of a movie clip according to the size the size of dynamic text inside it. I did it by creating a text field 'myText' and then converted it to a MovieClip symbol and named the MovieClip as myClip. The text in myText is assigned at run-time and its width changes according to the text.
I did it as follows:-
myClip.myText.selectable = false;
myClip.mouseChildren = false;
myClip.useHandCursor = true;
myClip.buttonMode = true;
myClip.myText.width = myClip.myText.textWidth + 5;
On doing this I find the clickable area changes according to the size of the text field but the text field doesn't appear at all.
Im trying to create same MCs and create a textField inside each MC created, then I am trying to apply onRollOver event into those MCs created and change the textField.textColor.
From my code Im resulting and trace with "undefined" how can I manipulate the dynamic created Textfield inside the dynamic created MC
Here is my code:
for (var i = 101; i < 103; i++)
{
if ( i != 115 and i != 116 or i != 126 or i != 127 or i != 134)
{
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