At 9/20/09 07:24 AM, Halosheep wrote: My code is just a movement script for the character, with the V-Cam following. The only problem is the walls. The character stops when he hits the walls, but he gets stuck halfway through, and you can slowly wiggle him out.

Have you tried making the wall collision detection after the movement code:

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDowns);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyUps);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, xmove);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, ymove);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, limits);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, walls);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, camfollow);

At 9/20/09 09:40 AM, liaaaam wrote: Can't wait for Day 2s events!!!

Yeah, paintballing is going to be so awesome!

Kes has outdone himself this time. Much better than the last Sheffield m33t.

Helicopter going off in the 16 bit distance:

1,0.02,0.88,0.48,0.79,0.04,,,-0.296,,,-0.26,1,0.77,0.919,0.016,-0.004,0.068,0.06,0.159,0.404,0.781,,0.5

3,0.032,0.032,0.293,0.949,0.5,,0.381,0.7 79,0.521,0.078,-0.817,,0.151,0.28,0.419,
-0.439,-0.063,0.889,-0.219,0.859,0.465,-
0.051,0.5
^^ That's my little sound effect (That sort of swoosh sound when your retro spaceship takes off).

And yes, mutate and randomise on the fly would be really cool.

Press F8 (or right click it and convert it to a symbol), make it a movieclip and then apply actions to that movieclip.

Actionscript can only be applied on frames/buttons/movieclips in AS2.

Thank you all very much for testing.

It must be my machine glitching up the flash player.
I've just tested it on another PC and a Mac with no glitch.

Thanks again :)

Pretty definite. We've got a good 10meg connection here.

It just stops dead about one in ten loads around 70%. Really bizarre.

Hey,

Can anyone help, I'm making an application and my preloader is breaking.

At the moment the loadedBytes simply doesn't reach the totalBytes sometimes.
You can find the error at:
My broken application

The "checking" text number increases when the preloader is still in action (checking that the bytes are not equal). You may have to refresh the page a few times to get the glitch.

Here is the preloader code I'm using:

stop()
// Enter frame preloader
this.addEventListener("enterFrame",load_bar);
function load_bar(e:Event) {
	// Debug
	loadedBytes.text = String(this.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded);
	totalBytes.text = String(this.loaderInfo.bytesTotal);
	preloaderTint.lBar.scaleX=((this.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded/this.loaderInfo.bytesTotal));
	percent.text = String(preloaderTint.lBar.scaleX*100);
	checkingTxt.text = String(checking);
	checking++;
	if (this.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded == this.loaderInfo.bytesTotal) {
		this.removeEventListener("enterFrame",load_bar);
		addJSReader();
		loadXML();
	}
}

I've also used a preloader with Event.COMPLETE and Event.PROGRESS but that has the same problem.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

James

Just a few photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40097884@N0 2/sets/72157622001128930/

Mornings suck :(

Voted on the Tattoo.

I'm guessing we still have the ability to vote on the monthly winners. I like being involved in doing that :)

Done.

Now go play nice now...

</thread>

Also uploaded .fla here.

Sorry for DP

I see your problem and your problem adjusting to the syntax of AS3.

I looked at the code earlier and adjusted the fix:
I added a container (just a movieclip, called with the instance name of platformCont.
I made sure the x and y of the platform are at 0. Then I add all your platforms within that Movieclip.
I then go through all the children of the MovieClip container with the following code.
numChildren returns the number of objects in the MovieClip. Then the getChildAt(indexNumber) returns the actual platforms (like your old P1, P2).

I then added a break, because otherwise the for loop would set falling to false even though it was set true to the old platforms giving it adverse effects.

for (var i:int = 0; i<platformCont.numChildren; i++) {
	if (platformCont.getChildAt(i).hitTestPoint(bunny.x,bunny.y+bunny.height/2,false)) {
		bunny.y = platformCont.getChildAt(i).y - (bunny.height/2) ;
		falling=false;
		fallSpeed=-1;
		break;
	} else if (!jumping) {
		falling=true;
	}
}

Good luck! Let me know if you have any more trouble.

Another way of looping thought multple objects/items in AS3 is to reference them in an array.
Like so:

var myArray:Array = new Array();
array.push(p1,p2,p3,p4);
for (var i:int=0; i<array.length; i++) {
if (array[i].hitTestPoint(bunny.x, bunny.y) {
// code
}
}

P.S. I was bored, and did look at the .fla, although I normally wouldn't!

Best April fools for NG yet! I hope you can compete with that next year.
Some funny-as response PM's aswell :) Made me laugh quite a bit.

Checked out that "8-bit Waterslide In Real LIfe" Barclaycard competition submission. It was really well done, if anyone reading this hasn't watched it, GO WATCH IT!

GO!

Pico 2

At 3/12/09 05:07 PM, TomFulp wrote: In other news: No baby YET but any day now.

Wow, I missed they whole "I knocked up April talk"

.... wait, it IS with April right...?

Well, Good luck :) We wanna see pictures on the day!

In AS2 run this code:

Stage.showMenu = false;

And in AS3 it's like this:

stage.showDefaultContextMenu=false;

The medals are really cool. They look more impressive (graphic wise) than I've seen on other sites.

I hope you have more plans on what to do with the medals earned :)

Have you read the sticky?

New to flash? Read this first!

Adobe Air is adobe flash with a bigger library of features.

This means that you can just export your current flash Movie/Game and make it easily into a desktop application. But you can add much more functionality to make your game/movie to act more like a program than a flash .swf.

Download Tour de Flex, it's meant to be showing off all the flex features (another library and xml coding syntax) but it has a tab for all the Adobe Air features that you can now do.

Some of my favs are: Transparent Video, Saving/Loading, Dragging files into the Air application to load, Component to view all your local files on your PC, New Windows (customised with headers or blank). Download it and have a look, the application is also published with Adobe Air.

If you export the move as a quicktime .mov it also exports nested movieclips.

In that mode it takes a while to render out every frame but it does work (without glitches).

Then you put the .mov into a DVD burning software and burn.

I really enjoyed the meetup this year. Let's keep it going!

It's vital to know what's going on so I've made a few comments about what's going on:

// This creates my new timer, and sets it to update every 1000 miliseconds (1 second)
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);

// Adds my initial countdown and displays it on screen
var countDown:int = 30;
textBox.text = String(countDown);

// This adds a listener to my function and it calls this function whenever it updates
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerHandler);

// This starts the timer to get it to start working
myTimer.start();


// The function that is called every update
function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void
{
	// It deducts a second from our visible timer
	countDown--;
	
	if (countDown==0)
	{
		textBox.text = "COMPLETE";
		// add next frame code here
	}
	else
	{
		// This updates my textbox with the current countdown
		textBox.text = String(countDown);
	}
}

I hope this helps...

Ok, until we get the actual footage this will have to do:
Sexy Back Clip

Remember... no swearing -_-

Oh, and the view from the hotel room (don't you wish you'd slept there)

At 1/20/09 07:03 AM, TimFrommeyer wrote: Thumbs up.

I don't remember that at all but apparently I'm in it. Where/when was it?

Meh:

Luis is a cock

Happy Birthday

Just thought I'd confirm that I'll be there for this.

It's my birthday on that day too. So let's make it a good one. I expect Kirk to try and catch up with my drinking antics this time :P

Thanks Tom for the round of drinks in London. If you turn up this time, you can actually give it to us in person :P