you have to give them different names and hittest them both seperately. I normally call them enemy1 enemy2, enemy3 then do something like

for (i=1;i<=3;i++) {
if (_root.player.hitTest(_root["enemy"+i])) {
_root["enemy"+i].enemylife--
}
}

noone is saying that flash doesnt work on a mac, just that that bit of code for the mouse doesnt because the mouse is different on a mac.

Stop blindly defending the Mac when noone is attacking it and read the posts properly.

You cant just have ["object"+i], the square brackets find an object within whatever is before them, so you always need at least: this["object"+i]

"More money, more affluent and popular culture (Music, TV, Movies, social trends), less taxes, less government intervention, more opportunity, more overall financial and social freedom etc.."

Whether or not americans have more money I dont know, I doubt many people feel like americans have more money in general. I think british people would be more jealous of other british people with more money. British TV is popular all around the world, but that doesnt really matter, in britain in general people enjoy both british tv shows and american imports, there is no feeling that what comes out of america is better, there are some good shows and some bad one. America has a good movie industry, but its not something we are jealous of. American social trends spread around because of american TV and movies, but again, I dont see why anyone would be jealous of it. And the rest of the things on your list there, I doubt many are aware of the differences in tax etc

"Then, another thing Britons are jealous of is the sole Superpower status the US has"
I dont think this is true, I think this is just what patriotic americans assume everyone will be jealous of. I think the problem people around the world have with this is the america often bullies other countries in order to get their own way

"They have this sort of inferiority complex. In order to cope with jealousy, Brits have to be incredibly blinded by it to the point that they entirely ignore reality and take things out of context to perpetuate some myth of British superiority"

A few people do on the internet, but this is only because of the constant bragging you see on US tv about america being the greatest country in the world and being the land of the free etc, when you see someone banging on about how they are the best its only natural for a few people to try and knock them down a peg or 2

""Americans are lazy, uneducated, stupid" etc, when you look at the facts, the UK is FAR, FAR worse in those aspects. But Brits don't want to know that, because that would compromise their fragile views."

this is just a stereotype brought about by americans that cant find their country on a world map etc. I know someone that went to america and someone asked them if they had running water in the UK. From what Ive heard there are quite a few people in america who dont know much about what goes on outside america, so you could understand how it seems sometimes. Whatever the stats are or how you measure it, most people arent gonna know

"First of all, there is far less racism in the US than the UK, and the US treats minorities far better. Brits like to emphasize the small isolated racism in the south of the US and ignore their own racism in order to create the myth that they have a more cohesive society."

The average brit is shocked by racism, and its at the point where you are worried to even mention someones skin colour when describing them (which is a bit stupid), but on american tv you get comdians making racial jokes all the time, and even on NG you get people judging people by their race, which in my experience you dont generally get here in the UK.

"I got called a "Paki" in the UK about 30 times. One time I simply asked for a light and some stupid kid said what amounted to "go back to Arabia, Muslim" even though I'm not Muslim, "

I honestly find that hard that hard to believe, I work in a town with lots of muslims. In my office at the moment I have a muslim from morroco and a nigerian, and both have said very positive things about the attitude towards race in this country. On tv recently there were 40000 compaints because on a reality show someone called an indian girl "poppadom". Yes there is some racism here, but on the whole its very frowned upon. I wonder which part of the UK you experienced this? If it is true it sounds like you are judging us all by a small minority

"Well many British do, while probably next to zero Americans want to become British."

Well I know of quite a few people that have left britain to live in france, spain and australia. But I dont know anyone who has left to live in america. Whereas I have heard a lot of americans say that they admire the british, but then Americans are probably too patriotic in general to give up america

Dont get me wrong though, I'm not trying to say the Britain is better than america, just that its not as bad as the warped idea of britain you seem to have and we are certainly not jealous

In the UK you can get medical insurance and dental plans, and they are getting more popular since there are more private dentists than NHS

English is the 3rd largest language by number of native speakers due to the commonwealth, but yeah having america speaking it reinforces it

the British being jealous of America is laughable, I dont understand what you have that we would be jealous of. The patriotism and casual attitude towards racism and other prejudices, and the amount of extreme christians put me off ever wanting to live there. There are lots of good things that come out of america, but I don't want to be american.

Arguing about which is better seems pretty pathetic though, who cares? it doesnt matter

I know loads of muslims and they are no more radical than any of the christians I know. In fact they are very similar in what they believe, and some of them are more devout than others in the same way that christians are. You can take some snippets from the Koran to "prove" that their religion is evil, but you can do the same with the bible

cellardoors description of europe is absolutely bizarre. I cant believe he's been.

The earths temperature has changed naturally in the past, but its normally been because of a natural disaster like a supervolcano or a meteorite hitting. The temperature does fluctuate anyway, but this time since the industrial revolution the temperature has been increasing much quicker than the natural cycle. Bit of a coincidence?

Thinking that global warming is natural is just a convienient excuse to go on polluting the earth with a clean conscience. There is no reason to pretend that global warming is happening, but there are reasons to pretend it isn't which is what people are doing.

It wont take 100 years to affect us, more like 20, and the sad thing is, it's poor countries like places in africa that will be hit worst and its not their fault! Makes me sad that so much will be underwater in a few years and people will be dying, but right wing americans will be saying "nope, not us" its the natural warming of the earth, and then go for a drive in their hummer

you replace localhost with the ip or domain of the server, but if you are going to play the game in the browser, the address in the address bar must be the same domain as in the game, unless you have a crossdomain.xml file in the web root (viewable by web) of the server with the server running on it

At 2/26/07 06:27 PM, notorious wrote:

At 2/26/07 05:12 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote:

At 2/26/07 02:52 PM, RyanPridgeon wrote: Hey, what's mochiads?

mochiads.

Yet another website that pays game developers money, and gives animators squat.

No reason that you cant put the ads in an animation. I'm sure they wouldnt mind.

I suspect its just aimed at games because games being stolen happens a lot

At 2/9/07 08:19 AM, StCyril wrote: And once again we go off topic!

No, your topic is about the media being crap, and so was theirs, you labelled it liberal and they labelled it american. You just seem to take everything as an attack on the USA.

Saying people in america in general are more interested in celebrities than international politics is not an attack on the country you love, its just something that is true and is evident in what you say about your media

At 1/5/07 02:37 PM, SteveGuzzi wrote:

athiest viewpoint is generally a hopeless viewpoint.... 'hopeless' in the sense that by having an athiestic perspective you're esentially claiming that there is no real truth or purpose inherent to life or existence as a whole. That's maaaaaaaad depressing -- practically a defeatist attitude towards the very concepts of what Truth and Goodness are supposed to consist of

Athiests generally decide on what their 'purpose' in life is to be, rather than have some ancient text decide for them. Being athiest is being free to think for yourself and there nothing depressing about that. Also athiests dont need an ancient text to tell them whats right or wrong, every living creature knows that. A defeatest attitude to 'Truth and Goodness' would just be accepting what you are told rather than putting in any effort to find out yourself.

I find it depressing that people spend their entire life praying and worshipping to set them up in the next life rather than making the most of this one.

First make your man walk around the maze normally with just him rotating, then put everything in a movieclip and rotate that the opposite way when you turn the man then get the global x and y to center him on screen

Being a stupid Brit, of course you wouldn't be aware that Europeans actually eat more hamburgers than Americans do....

You actually took what I said as a serious argument?

I was mearly just showing you how ridiculous coming out with some some bizarre rant based on dodgy logic and dodgy facts looks.

I know that hamburgers dont cause birth defects lol

And don't pull that "Ya'll Americans are fat" because the obesity rate in the US is only slightly higher than in the UK. But once again, of course a stupid Brit like you wouldn't be aware of that because you jolly-good Chaps just love to salvage your pathetic attempts of feeling superior to your American masters (ahem, inferiority complex).

I know the US arent much fatter on average lol. Again I was just showing you.. ah forget it. Seriously though, when I went to america I saw some of the fattest people I have ever seen, whole families of them. Maybe your skinnier people are skinnier to balance out the average.

If anyone has an inferiority complex, its you for making this thread. Why else would you do it? I make no scuh assumptioms (like you do) that because you are from somewhere, you are a certain way.

As for americans speaking better english than the english, thats ridiculous. Yeah, there may be some accents that are hard to understand and yeah, some young people might not speak it very well, but the majority of people speak it really well. Just because youve changed it and people learn to speak it like you because they are more likely to be dealing with you, doesnt make it more official or better.

British people drink more in general, therefore more people drinking = more pregnant people drinking.

I bet in america pregnant women eat more burgers than pregnant women in other countries. Maybe thats why americans cant speak coherent english

At 10/1/06 07:07 PM, Grammer wrote:

At 10/1/06 05:03 PM, Kev-o wrote: 9/11 Conspiracy theorists aren't denying 9/11 happening. They think someone else, other than Al-Queda, is responsible. Holocaust deniers believe the Holocaust never happened all together.

Don't you think I already know that? That's why I added the phrase "in principle" to my thesis statement. You know what that means, yes?

They were pointing out that the principle is different which it is.

Denying that millions of people were killed is disrespectful to them and offers no sympathy, whereas aledging that someone else did the 9/11 attacks is not denying that they died and is not disrespectful or taking anything away from the people who died.

its not that hard but you do either need php/asp etc or you can use XML sockets which will need some code running on the server (i.e you will probably need you own server)

_xscale=-100 and _xscale=100 to get it back again

a flash forum would not be that hard and you wouldnt even need xml, you could just use loadvars

I have made a similar game to this: http://www.newground..m/portal/view/232526
I had similar problems. The way i dealt with it was thinking more about how often the code is being called. E.g does an enemy need to check the exact position of the player even when they are a long way away? or could they do it every 20th frame? Do they need to make trails when they are off screen and not visible? etc

hope that helps

myarray = mytextfieldvariable.split(",")

onEnterFrame(enterFrame){
if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
_rotation-=10;
}
if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
_rotation+=10;
}
}

At 6/17/06 04:20 AM, KougaijiGyumao wrote: Is it possible to load external data such as xml or html to a flash? something like text for "news" in my site or something like that. Do you think its possible?

loadVariablesNum("yourtextfile.txt", 0);

in the file you put your variables in a url format like newsheadline1=a+news+headline&newsstory1=b
lah+blah+blah&etc...

you can use and asp of php file or whatever to write out these variables then just use loadVariablesNum("yourscript.asp", 0);

are you sure you want "onClipEvent (load) {" and not "onClipEvent (onEnterFrame) {" ...?

does it have to be less than 200 in any direction? or just horizontally or vertically?

look up attachMovie or duplicateMovieClip to find out how to create the bullet

Then put actions in the bullet movieclip to make it move

Buy the film and record sounds from it

well is _root.stam increasing? somehow? if not it will always be 1 more than _root.stam

At 4/4/06 05:43 AM, Time2k6 wrote: Most of my beliefs would piss alot of people off on both sides, but after getting kicked out of a bunch of public schools I got stuck in a private christian one, here's their "explainations"

Thanks for those, I'm not sure all christians agree with all of those. The things that seem strange to me: The fact "that you believe in a god is the important thing", firstly not all religions believe in just one god, or any gods at all. Also religions often have strict ways of doing things in life, if catholics dont do something a certain way, then thye are going to hell, surely this means that other religions must be doing thing the wrong way?

Also I have heard before "Much of the OT is alegorical and not literal", the problem is, how much of it is alegorical and how much is literal? Lots of people have different ideas about this, some believe noahs ark was real, some dont, some think the garden of eden was a metaphor, some people think the whole of genesis is a metaphor for the big bang and evolution...

Thanks for your mature post, i was expecting to get flamed by some christian extremist from the bible belt of america, I expect its early in the morning for most of them at the moment

It should work, just put this code on the first frame in the movie clip:

this.onLoad=function(){
previ=0
}
if(actions to duplicate ){
previ+=5
for (i=previ; i<previ+5; i++) {
var newleaf = leaf.duplicateMovieClip("leaf"+i, i);
newleaf._x = random(550);
newleaf._y = random(0);
newleaf.gotoAndPlay(random(25)+1);
}
for (j=i; j<i+5; j++) {
var newleaf = leafslow.duplicateMovieClip("leafslow"+j, j);
newleaf._x = random(550);
newleaf._y = random(0);
newleaf.gotoAndPlay(random(50)+1);
}