Stop the music before starting it again. Or check to see if it's been defined yet.

if(_root.bgmusic == undefined)
{
_root.bgmusic = new Sound(_root);
_root.bgmusic.attachSound("bgmusic");
_root.bgmusic.start(0,0);
_root.bgmusic.onSoundComplete = function()
{
this.start(0,0);
}
}

Yeahh... Uh, ok, you're setting the variable cLaser or whatever everytime you make a new bullet.
There's still only one variable, named cLaser, it's pointing to only one movieclip.
Either make an array or.
And this is really the way easier option::
Just add the code to test if the enemy hits the laser on the laser's onEnterFrame? Duh.

Well.. Here's a tut on making a tank in flash?

Part 1 : http://www.myflashresource.com/?p=7
Part 2 : http://www.myflashresource.com/?p=6

Hope that helps.

Flash 4? Wow.. That's like, AS 1 isn't it?

It's most like java and C#.

Yeah, no kidding, the load time would be huge.
50 Stages, that's 50 different backgrounds. All with lots of mc's on it, most probably wouldn't be reused much, 300 characters, that's 300 animations and stuff.
At least, if you think about it seriously.

Idk. I use AS 2.0 for my games, and I love it.
I would say stick with as2.

Get flash

Keep dreaming.

Give it an onEnterFrame.
Here's an example

mc = _root.attachMovie("enemy","enemy"+_root.getNextHighestDepth(),_root.getNextHighestDepth());
mc._x = Stage.width/2;
mc._y = 0;
mc.speed = 6;
mc.onEnterFrame = function()
{
this._x += this.speed;
}

Learn an tiny bit of OOP for As2, and that should help you.

Yeah, you should make them objects, each kind of item is an object. And the items have a quantity property. So you'd just loop till you found the right object, update the quantity and change the textbox text.

I like using 2 variables.
Just increment one int (cur) everyframe, if you try to shoot, check to see if it's gotten bigger than the delay int (max), and then reset the the first int (cur).

cur = 0;
max = 20; //This is the time in frames between being allowed to shoot
onEnterFrame = function()
{
//Other stuff
cur++;
if(CHECK TO SHOOT && cur > max)
{
cur = 0;
//Shoot code
}
//Other stuff
}

You won't learn everything from one tutorial, just bits and pieces you need to stick together from your mind.

Sounds very cool

It is free

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascri pt/2004/08/17/flashhacks.html?page=2

Haha wow jack that's pretty fucked up, plants fucking eachother? Jeez, and I thought anime was bad, lol. That'd be funny as hell though, just like it seems like people, and then the camera drops down and its groceries, lol.

I thought about this a little bit a while ago, I didn't really concentrate on it much but I think the beset way would be to just have a function for each pattern, and then yeah, you would have the timed release, the interval would call like a createDrone(x,y,dir, etc..)

You would need to be able to clear the interval too, i've had problems with this, mainly with just not being able to reference the timer for whatever reason.

The other way would just have an animation, and you would just need to adjust any hitTests referencing the X, Y of the bullet and stuff for the hierarchies

That's all I can really think of

Something else you can do, is put a keyframe on the last frame that has the code

this._parent.attacking = false;

And then just say:

//Code here to figure out if you should attack
if(this.attacking)
{
this.gotoAndStop("attack");
}

And that's pretty flexible.

Why can't you just use startDrag..?

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
while (this.hitTest(_root.dark.hero._x+_root.d ark._x, _root.dark.hero._y+_root.dark._y, true)) {
_root.dark._y -= 1;
}
}

That might help. Since _root.dark.hero's x and y are relative to dark's, _root.dark.hero._x+_root.dark._x will give you the hero's x relative to the stage as a whole.

Learn onEnterFrame's, learn gotoAndStop/gotoAndPlay's, learn hittests, learn if statements, learn bools, etc. etc. learn your foundation, get some code, then ask for help.

Yeah, if you do it right, it can be a hit. If you do it wrong it'll be awful, I think with a game like this, there's a very clear line between really good and really bad, so yeah. Goodluck doing this right :).

Uh, maybe you want to try this:

moveLeft.onPress = function() {
if (_root.everything._x < -80) {
everything.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += 4;
}
}
moveLeft.onRelease = function() {
delete everything.onEnterFrame;
}
}

instead of what you wrote in your post.

Wow, that's useful, I never knew about that field.

Try, this.startDrag() instead of startDrag(this).

He wants it visible though.
You could just use a hitTest for when the mouse is down instead of checking for on(click) or this.onPress = function() or whatever you're doing.

You can't put it on a specific layer, you can only change the depth.
Someone else (or was it you?) asked this same thing today.

That was so insightful Ty.

Use a V-cam.