STILL NOT WORKING!
I even tried converting lines to fills but that only helps a bit, but there is still one that wont die!

At 10/7/08 02:32 AM, Turn-Coat wrote: Many things could be wrong. It might have to do with where your registration point is on the bullet/enemies. If it's in the default (top/left) corner this could be why. I'd also check the bullet speed. If it's too fast, it won't actually hit anything, though it appears to. It could also be that you're using hitTest (target), instead of hitTest(_x,_y, shapeflag)... hitTesting is a funny thing. I usually have to try a bunch of things. Another good thing you could try is trace(), because you can use it to see what part of the script
executed or didn't execute.

I have made the bullets slower just to test, but i still have the same problem. I tried using hitTest(_x,_y,true) but that made it worse. Maybe ill go look up shapeflag now... :P

No, i have good reasons to make it go to frame 2.
Even though what happens in frame 2 could easily be done in AS, i guess just call me old fashioned.
Thanks for the help though, ill see if it works.......

I'm at a loss to explain why this happens...
Let's just say that im making a space shooter game. Sometimes, when a bullet hits an enemy, it does nothing, even though I can clearly see it hitting the object in question, but other times it works fine, on the SAME enemy that refused to die last time. can anyone shed some light on the situation?

for (z = -1; z < _root.b; z++) {
if (this.hitTest(_root["mbg" + z])) {
_root["mbg" + z].gotoAndStop(2);
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}

Isn't mine just the cutting edge of innovation?
| I have to share with the rest of my family though, so....

I hate the older guys.

I would become a very sad little boy

At 9/27/08 11:05 PM, Wutchicaw wrote: Fucking...Hot...Rooms.

I think At my school if it's over 45 degrees (C) then we get to go home, but it ever gets that hot anyway.
Oh well. with global warming you never know...

At 9/27/08 10:54 PM, JKMonkey wrote:

At 9/27/08 10:28 PM, crapatflash wrote: I hate our array of "different" drinks from the vending machines.

at least your school had some sort of Coca Cola, mine only had RC Cola and Aquafina

We also have diet Sprite, Sprite zero, and other drinks where suger has been replaced with other chemicals to make it taste the same.
At least we have Milkshakes. :S

Also, I know this has probably been done, but I hate the people who take orders from their friends, then spend AGES figuring out what THEY want, and finally end up ordering a ridiculous amount of food, all in the space of A HALF HOUR.

I hate our array of "different" drinks from the vending machines.

No, some of you are missing the point, I'm not talking about the people who leave reviews like HIUDBEYUWBKZGRKNZWHGFIEZYHFIWNZKHFLEW, everyone knows they're idiots anyway, what I mean is the lack of intelligence in some of the NG goers. TO ALL NOOBS, IT IS CALLED FLASH BEACASUE THAT IS THE PROGRAM USED TO MAKE IT, NOT JUST CAUSE SOME PERSON DECIDED TO CALL IT A "FLASH" MOVIE.
FLASH=Movie, Game, Program used to make Movies/Games

in my recent weeks spent on NG i have noticed an increasing level of stupidity and noobs hanging around and leaving idiotic reviews. I know some of you may counter by saying "Well, crapatflash, you havn't been on newgrounds that long yourself you know, hmm, chortle"
But hear me out. Take the review I just read, made by someone reviewing "A Remake" by Yotam Perel.
"dood i am a new animator and i love ur work wat do u use to animate ur flash?"
...Uh...well, just a hunch, but id say he uses FLASH to animate his flash. Just my personal opinion of course. Diving ruether into my memories i remember another review written by someone who wanted to express their satisfaction with Pink Army by noogai.
"This is the most amazing flash ive ever seen. What program are you using x)?"
Seriously, if these people are trying to be funny.... then... just damn...

Need some help with arrays.... cause im such a noob and dont know anything, i cb fucked checking AS main for anything, but am i correct in assuming that there is a way of reading data from an array like so?
var shit:Array=new Array([var1, 0.5], [var2, 0.1], [var3,0.4])

and then reading the position, eg. ([var1, 0.5] is position 0, and finally reading the position inside the brackets, eg. ([var1, 0.5])
if this is confusing you, now you know how i feel right now...

This kind of thing is why I put away my own clothes. Sometimes.

as some of you may be aware, there is a 3 key maximum for keyboards on windows (not sure about other OS's), so you can only hold down 2 keys at once. If you hold down any more, they wont do anything. anyone know hoe to stop this? cause its a drag when i'm playing games that require many keyboard shortcuts or things like that.

thanks! i didn't know there was an id3 tut on AS main.

First post didn't get a reply, so I'll try again...
I'm trying to make a text box that displays The Artist's name, the album, etc, using the id3 class on AS2, But it isn't working. I know that the mp3's are labeled, I've checked, but when i make it show the artists name the text just returns "undefined". What is happening?

I still use Flash 8. I find it more comfortable. I do have CS3, but there's not much point using it, unless you want to try AS3, but I find that way to confusing and complex. I feel more at home with AS2.

More flash MP3 help.
I'm trying to make a box that displays The Artist's name, the album, etc, using the id3 class on AS2, But it isn't working. I know that the mp3's are labeled, I've checked, but it just returns "undefined". What is happening?

At 9/2/08 03:07 PM, supernewguy wrote: What benefit do most of you get out of making flash movies or games?

It stops me from crying at night.
:After long stressful hours spent of making them, what do you get out of it?
It isn't usually stressful if you enjoy doing it.
:I know most of you are not being paid to make them, so why make them?
See above comments

Just something that came to mind all of a sudden, figured I ask.

Get Flash and see for yourself.

UPDATE: FORGET THIS THREAD EVEN EXISTS CAUSE I JUST FIXED THE PROBLEM >:(

Oh BTW i forgot to mention that the error message only appears when i first open the swf. If i press the Next button, then the next song will play fine, and if i then press the previous button, then the FIRST song will work as it was supposed to. Please dont suggest that i remove the _root.i fomr the onLoad function, because the player has more than one frame which means it would play the first song continuously

k, so ive been constructing an Mp3 player using flash with the help of a tutorial i found on Webmonkey.com, and it was working fine about a aday ago, but then i did something to the code and it stopped working. Here are the pieces of code that i think may be the culprits...

onLoad = function () {
getSound("myMP3" + _root.i + ".MP3");
_root.i = 1;
sound.stop();
};
function getSound(url:String) {
sound.stop();
delete sound;
sound = new Sound();
sound.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
_root.file.errorMsg = "File Loaded!";
} else {
_root.file.errorMsg = "File failed to load";
}
};
sound.loadSound(url, true);
}
getSound("myMP3" + _root.i + ".MP3");

I use _root.i to enable a next/previous track mechanism. Any body got any ideas why it no longer works?

If you do, please help. every time i try to execute a code, this error message comes up saying:
"Installation and Compiling Versions are incompatible". If you know how to help please do because its driving me insane.

Ok, just say you were trying to make something like a phonebook using XML, and you have about 3 different contacts. Can you make, like, a button that lets you create a new contact? if so, how? does it have something to do with the createNode action? help, anyone?
this is what the XML document looks like...

ok, i tried asking this already but i didn't get an answer. does anyone remember that game that came out in about 2007, and you started off as a little orange slug thing from space, and it was a point and click game. you moved through the garden into the house and whenever you killed someone you sort of got there powers, like when you kill a frog you get a long tongue. i think it startes with an 's' or 'sn' or 'sh' or something. anyone remeber this game?

i tried all this shit, like slither, slime, slide, slippery, all this crazy stuff and i couldnt find it.

he's thinking about how much of a mistake it was to have a dumbass kid who cant even spell 'what'.

hey does anyone remember that game, came out in '07 i think, and you were a little alien slug thing and you went around eating everything and stealing their abilities? i think it started with 'S' but i can't find it anywhere! anyone know the name?