Huh, weird that atan works, mind posting your code?

Show the code you're using, also, maybe you didn't define dy or dx.

Yeah it worked for me, really well.

All of it is very possible, and it doesn't matter how long you've had flash, just how much you've used it, and it seems you've hardly used it at all.
Um, first off learn the basics of programming, like variables and functions, then get a little platformer thing working (for maplestorish thing). Then just keep adding with inventory and fighting.

Those are the steps, but you honestly just aren't going to get it at all, start with something much smaller.

Yeah, give the frame you want to go to a frame label, then just go to the frame label.
When flash compiles the fla into a swf, it puts all the scenes onto one big timeline, so going to the frame label will work.
I had this prob when i just started out with flash, what a pain in the ass that was.

Change the _alpha?

previousXMouse = _xmouse;
player.dir = 1;

Defined outside of the onEnterFrame

In the onEnterFrame

if (_xmouse > previousXMouse)player.dir = 1;
else if (_xmouse < previousXMouse) this.dir = -1;
previousXMouse = _xmouse;
player._xscale = player.dir*Math.abs(player._xscale);

onEnterFrame can be your onClipEvent(enterFrame) too, its just what runs everyframe, thats what i mean by it.

Thanks moonkey, I've got a lot of respect for you now, that pretty much did it thanks a lot.

Thanks, I think you just jogged my memory a bit, reminding me how simple it should be :D. I think I've been overthinking it, when its right under my nose.
I'll post again to say if it works or not.

on(Release)
{
bSound = new Sound(_root);
bSound.attachSound("buttonPress");
bSound.start(0,0);
}

Writing this on the bbs btw.

Yeah, so I'm working on a game where you have to throw a spear, I have the spear going at a pretty accurate trajectory, but I've got no idea how to make it go to the right _rotation. Anyone have any tutorials or ideas on how to make it rotate right during flight (Did that ryhme?).

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Get on AIM too.

Could maybe a good idea, but executed horribly, find a real artist, improve your AS skills, this could be a good game if done right.

HOW ABOUT SOME CODE TO LOOK AT?
And get the hell of caps you loser.

A string, do you know what a string is?
"this is a string, it is inside quotes"
thisIsAVariable

so "clip1" rather than just clip1, string rather than variable. It's really simple.

Store the last rotation.

lastrot = this._rotation;
should go before you set the rotation for the char.

mcToRemove.removeMovieClip();

Of course mcToRemove is the mc.

This doesn't really make any difference to the code, but something I like to do is this:
You never defined clip1 as a variable btw.
You could just make it as a string.
_root.attachMovie("clip1","clip1",1);
or
clip1 = "clip1linkagename"
_root.attachMovie(clip1,clip1,1);

mc = _root.attachMovie(clip1, clip1, 1);// this adds the movieclip to the stage
mc._x = x;//replace x with a number
mc._y = y;//replace y with a number

attachMovie returns the MovieClip that's created, so you can just reference it, again, really makes no difference.

Could try opening flash, then opening the file from flash.

My bad, thanks schmastalukas for pointing that out.

Wow, what a surprise, it's EXACTLY what I said:

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/210208/5 2486_WhatISaid.fla

Maybe you're reseting your array, because you set it on the first place. Put a blank frame as the first frame (push those other two back), and define all your starting variables in that start frame that way you can't reset it accidentally.
If you give the fla it'd be easier to help too.

So, 1.

if(_root.Tpbtn.hitTest(_root._ymouse, _root._xmouse, true)){
_root.TPbtn.gotoAndStop(2);
} else {
_root.TPbtn.gotoAndStop(1);}
}

First you use Tpbtn, then the rest of the time you use TPbtn, variables and objects are case sensitive, so use the right one.

Or you could use this method, I wrote this before I realized that you used the wrong case for the variable reference (Tpbtn or TPBtn) though, so really changing the name to the right thing should fix it.
Comment out that code, put this code on the main timeline:

_root.TPbtn.stop();
_root.TPbtn.onMouseOver = function()
{
this.gotoAndStop(2);
}
_root.TPbtn.onRollOff = function()
{
_root.TPbtn.gotoAndStop(1);
}

What do you mean they overlay eachother?

Just another option for doing it :p

I might also be interested.
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Here's how you can do it with Atan2, only using one point.
You just find the angle from the player's x and y to the other point's x and y.
This example also includes turning around.

FLA -- http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/210208/4 3427_Atan2Instead.fla

View SWF -- http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/210208/4 3465_Atan2Instead.php

SWF -- http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/210208/4 3465_Atan2Instead.swf

Ok, so if you want the movieclip to switch, I just realized it now, you could simply have two frames, one with the regular MC, and the other with the special. I don't know how radical the difference is between each of the MC's code, but you could always do something like this:

onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
if(this.type == 1)
{
//Do regular code
}
else
{
//Do special code
}
}

Something else you could do, is when putting the old bullet back on stage, simply copy over the properties from bullet2 back onto bullet, which would probably be easier.

Yeah, the top left corner is the origin. The Y increases as you go down, and the X increases as you go right.

Ah, yeah when I said that thing about just keeping the movieclips on stage, I wasn't thinking about the fact that you're using onClipEvents, I program all the onEnterFrame stuff inside the movieclip, on thier first frame, so I just didn't take that into account. Obv, keep them on the stage as you are then (and like you said you would).

Thanks for the compliments about the ideas.
It's not a prob helping you out.
I probably forgot to adress something too, if I did, i'll just post a reply about it when you tell me it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/2298 08/9999

Look at my examples, I can give you different platformer examples than the ones I have on there when I get on comp at home (in an hour or so).
My contact info:
Email/MSN - woadraiders@hotmail.com
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Yahoo - woadraiders

I'll convince you over an IM if I have to :p