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Heyho there ;)
I've got one question:
I wanna make a flash (AS 2) which uses informations from a MySQL databse. So far no problem.
One Solution could be to integrate it on my Website and send theese informations with variables.
But what should I do, if I wanna have this flash WITHOUT homepage as a standalone.
Just open the flashfile and voilá, you've got there theese Informations.
Is this possible, and on which way?

Greetings, Zeddi :)

At 2/18/09 03:38 PM, Died-Z wrote: Wow, that looks quite more complicated than AS2.
Well I will try it ;)
May someone has some coding tutorials on the web for this?^^

Thank you,
Zeddi

I mean some really easy tuts, so far thank you for this one, but I need everytime some more than one (to orientate me :D)

Zeddi :)

Wow, that looks quite more complicated than AS2.
Well I will try it ;)
May someone has some coding tutorials on the web for this?^^

Thank you,
Zeddi

Uh, nice topic :D
I think, gays should get a marriage like everyone else, I mean, why not?
Well there is a church which say, gay marriage is, uhm, bad . Well I'm a catholic but I don't believe in god nor in the church (it's done too much worse in the past).
So for me it's no ethnic question. Just see a maariage as simple as you can:
Two people, love each other, wanna be married.
And why theese people have to be woman and man and mustn't be man and man nor woman and woman.

I don't think that we 'normal' people can't imagine that they may love as we love.
So generally: Let the people love eachother, on which way they want (except pedophiles).

Greetings to all, Zeddi

Heyho out there :)
I wouldn't call me a n00b, I think I'm between n00b and advanced :)
So I've one thing about that I think all the time:
I just can code Action Script 2, even the so simple on(release){} task is wrong in AS3.

Now I#ve two options:
1) I'll go on learnings AS2, be an advanced etc,
or
2) I'll start as a beginner in AS3 but be up2date.

The nearest option is the second one, but:
-I've no learning books for this
-Theese books are damn new, and Expensive (about 80 Euro, quite to much for an 11th grade student with no job)
- I don't find good tutorials (the best one, and from which I've learned the most are the ones from gamecubicle, Ultimate Tutorial 2 and at the begining flash4beginners)

So my main questions are,
-Do I really have to start at point zero,
-what are the important differnces,
-why on(release){} don't work anymore,
-where I could learn it best (please no cheap books, I'm from Germany and just write "think" instead of "thing" in an examen :D, I can't handle a 200 side big only english explenationbook^^)

Thats all ;)
Thank you all for answers,
Zeddi

Okay, I've not a Menu yet, the graphics are awful, but I will optimise them in the end and no help for controlls, its just not ready but okay, here it is:

http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image =gameyl8.swf

The blue dot is Player one, the red one is player two.

Controlles:
Player One:
Arrow Keys,
Bombs with Shift

Player Two:
W A S D Controlls
Bombs with Space

With each kill each player will be spawn new (Noobsafe) and the green dots with the yellow U are Upgrades, what they do appears in the middle of the playground.

~Zeddi~

I know that it is difficult,
I've wrote some Month ago an login script for a website with flash, it was complicated and a bit
cumbersome but it was doing what I want from it^^

So, I know how to use Php, AS, HTML, MySQL, and a bit XML, I dunno if I can handle this what I want to do, but , hey, I can try it ;)

~Zeddi~

Okay, I can't answer alll questions, but:
1) Is this even possible? If not, ignore the rest of these.

Yeah it's possible ;)

2) If so, how do I make the ghosts wander around and go back to the box when they die?

I would make them wander arround by controlling them with for exampel "ghost._x += 8" or something else, then you put this in an if function by asking if there are walls on the left, right, up or down or not and use there the right controll. You should spawn the ghosts with shortcuts (rightclick in the libary on the ghost MC -> Shortcut and only activate "export for AS". Important is the Name, now spawn them in a keyframe with "attachMovie("shortcutname", "instancename", depth, {_x:Number, _y:Number});" Now you can delete them with "removeMovieClip(instancename);" If youre making a lot of ghosts and don't want to wright a script for each use arrays
-> http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8859 59
.

3) How would I make the fruit pop up randomly?

Make it like that with the ghosts, and use Arrays

4) How would I code the big dots to turn the ghosts a different color and able to be killed?

Make it by Using a boolean variable, ("var isActivated:Boolean = false;").
Now just write it in a if action ("if(isActivated){}") And put your actions in it.

5) How could I make the smaller dots disappear when ran over?

Make it with hitTest and alpha:

if(player.hitTest(dots){ /* Use Arrays please */ dots._alpha = 0; }

6) How could I make the walls unable to be passed through?

Uhm, I have no idea^^

~Zeddi~

Nice idea, first it's a part of testing since you get it how you jump, but I got it in 10 seconds^^

nice =)

~Zeddi~

Heyho,
I'm going to make a multiplayer flashgame, but my problem is, that I can't create a AI. Up to this point, I have the game, fine to play with 2 Players, controlled with WASD and arrow keys, but even not everybody have a friend next to him, who wanna play with him.
The only solution which I think is the best, is to make this game online, and that real time, because it makes no sence to make this game with rounds or something else like this.

I know that this is possible with Flash, I saw something like that on Newgrounds last year (you had there to reach a target before the others do that).
I think that it won't be easy, but may you can help me,
~Zeddi~

PS: May my english is a bit bad, but I'm trying to improve my English skills^^

Okay, thank you =)

Heyho =)
I've got one question:
I've made a scripts, that attach two different MC's very often on the stage. This has been done with the attachMovie(); method.
So the instance-names of each MC is like myMC1, myMC2, myMC3 and so on, the other one with the same method, only with other names like myScndMc1, myScndMc2, myScndMc3 and so on.
Now I want to make it a bit interactiv:
If one hit another, it will react, so easy with this.hitTest(_root.TARGET); in the first frame of my MC, but that will only react on one specific MC, but I want that it reacts to more MC's.
The main problem is, there are too much MC's that I write one scriptline for each.
Does anyone knows an answer?

Thx, Zeddi

Peace =)
ich bin dabei,
hier scheints echt verdammt viele zu geben, die nur die google-übersetzung nutzen, man siehe den ersten Post, aber find ich gut dass sich wenigstens n par dafür interressieren =)
Also lg, Zeddi :)

Übersetzung/Translation

Friede =)
I'm with it,
it seems to be that there are damn much persons which use only the google translation, read the first post, but I think it's good that there are at least some persons which are interested in this =),
so, nice greetings, Zeddi :)

Hey,
I'm using AS 2.0

But, I want to host my SWF on Newgrounds. By the methotds I know, you must connect to an internal URL (so, if I use an external, the script won't work) so, what should I do?

Thx for the replys, Zeddi

Heyho,
well, I want to build a flash, where you can query and save information from a MySQL Database. I know some methods, but they are very complicated -and- very unstable in the AS, so, what is the easiest (or hardest) BUT best method to connect or save infos to a MySQL Database.

Thx for answers =)