i don't think its because its triggering before added, because the output only starts once i click on a colour

At 11/22/09 10:18 PM, Zealotti wrote: You can also get stuck underneath part, if you just walk off one of the platforms

i got that as well. also, i got all the hearts and the door went open, but then i died. But when i hit space i spawn outside the level with the level saying its over.

normal drawings will always be behind symbols. Easy way of getting around it is making it a group (ctrl+g) or making it a graphics symbol

At 11/22/09 01:02 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: You're initiating an event listener yet the object you want to listen on doesn't exist. Make sure the object exists at the time you add the listener.

Makes sence. I tried this:

var coll:ColorPicker = new ColorPicker();
coll.x = -113;
coll.y = -38;
coll.addEventListener (ColorPickerEvent.CHANGE, colourChange);
addChild (coll);

thinking that surly the event will be added after the picker has, but still the same thing.

AS3

im using the colorPickerEvent class to determan when a color has been picked from my colorPicker component. Ive used it before and it worked fine, but now it bugs up for some reason it cant find the class (as i understand by the output)
when i click on one of the colors, i get a load of error messages in my output panel all looking something like this:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
	at fl.controls::ColorPicker/close()
	at fl.controls::ColorPicker/fl.controls:ColorPicker::onSwatchClick()

my colour picker has a instance name coll and the important bits is:

import fl.events.ColorPickerEvent;
coll.addEventListener (ColorPickerEvent.CHANGE, colourChange);
function colourChange (e:ColorPickerEvent)
{
	colour = "0x"+e.target.hexValue;
	newVis ();
}

any idea?

At 11/22/09 12:09 PM, Yhtomit wrote: Wait, can CS4 convert fla's to Flash 8 ones? I thought each one only had one version of backwards compatibility.

thats why i said convert to CS3 first. As i understand (i dont have CS4 though) you can convert a CS4 into a CS3 document, which can then be converted into flash 8 document

surly shouldent be a problem, if you have a version lower then that flash 8 can import it without a problem, if you have a version higher save it as cs3 (if you have cs4) and then save it as flash 8

At 11/22/09 06:49 AM, Unknown999 wrote: u need sprit for grapix and code input for move n stuff also not bad to prelaoding for high vote to. u get flash program for doing and the actionsipt2 and also ationscript3 but not easy to totorual so just actionscrpt2 cuz easyer. u can get sponsor to get cash n stuff if pro game but u need to much work. plz coautor me if cool game but not if crap plz good takes much time to do and not fast also bagground hard to draw so u can get a artist if ur lucky but cant count for it

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higher frame rate should do it

AS: Main gave me As:
actionscripted Color

the Key.isDown() sends a function that returns either true or false (thus can be used in a if statement). So all those results would be NaN (not a number). Use if statements to check for key presses:

if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
this._x += 5
}

and so on...

read up on the loadVars method (sorry i dont have a link now). It reads txt files and imports them into flash

have you imported it with action script?

just make the MC and then hit the "cache as bitmap on runtime" check box in the properties panel on the movieclip

New to Flash? Read this first!

At 11/20/09 12:01 AM, Da-boi wrote: hey coders got a new question how do you program a dynamic camera you know the one that follows your character while he moves

either add all your moving bits (backgrounds etc...) into an array and use a for loop to move them, or move the _x and _y of the stage.

ADOBE has multiple Creative Suits (CS). They bought FLASH from MACROMEDIA at the release of CS3. When the released CS3 the added AS3. MACROMEDIA only has AS1 and AS2. FLASH MX, MX07 and 8 has AS2, the rest have AS1 (flash 5 and downwards)

if you want AS2 help, then learn. If you want AS3 help, then learn.

AS2: Main
AS3: Main

the AS2: Main is for AS2 (MACROMEDIA)
the AS3: Main is for AS3(ADOBE)

can you rightclick and click play? if so theres probably a stop() script on your first frame

i did something like this before (i'll give u the fla if you want, but its AS3). The main concept is just to add all the different elements into a string and put something like a ; or a . or anything to separate each item.
then you can handle them using the split method.

For example, if you seperated them with a , and your string looked something like this:
"5,b,10"
and you then did this:
var array:Array = string.split(",")
then the array will contain:
value 0: 5
value 1:b
value 2:10

its not really that complicated until you have a lot of it, in my test i saved 3 different arrays so i had to split it 2ce

confusion should clear up if you add a , after excuses. But yea, im really glad they removed MC coding in AS3

Another thing id like to point out is that for all the function that dont need a target, its better to do:

function onEnterFrame () {
//code
}

instead of

onEnterFrame = function () {
//code
}

also, if your doing this heres a quick little tip, hit esc+fn and the function is done for you

At 11/18/09 09:36 PM, Archon68 wrote: Hmm... I never knew that. I'm still stuck with AS2 for now...

Thats only for OOP though, which does what AS2 did with frame coding against MC coding, to AS3 frame coding (if that makes any sense)

have you turned of your shortcut keys? control>disable shortcuts in the swf file

my bad, try this:

if(c1_mc.hitTestPoint(c2_mc.x, c2_mc.y, true)){
xdif = c2_mc.x-c1_mc.x
ydif = c2_mc.y-c1_mc.y
c1_mc.rotation = -Math.atan2(ydif, xdif)/(Math.PI/180)
xvel = Math.cos(c1_mc.rotation)
yvel = Math.sin(c1_mc.rotation)
}

Note, this is AS3, i think ud be able to translate though (add _ before x properties, remove the Point from the hitTest etc...) Maths and variables are the same

no, you need to constantly update the angle

well, if your talking about circles, you could get the ball to point away from the circle, you can calculate the angle between the 2 objects with the atan2 method and set the xvel and yvel using trigonometry

Strictly speaking i dont think thats 100& perfect physics, but it looks close to the real thing, and in my opinion, why would you take a much longer path to the same results?

formulas:

angle:

xdif = obj2.x-obj1.x
ydif = obj2.y-obj1.y
angle = Math.atan2(ydif, xdif)

Trig:

xvel = Math.cos(angle*(Math.PI/180))
yvel = Math.sin(angle*(Math.Pi/180))

audacity works just fine for me

you probaly havent renamed your names, and their all sybol1, symbol2 etc... Just give them new names and copy then

At 11/17/09 05:36 PM, TeamOrius wrote: Alot of animators actually turned me down because I was supplying art, can you believe that?

i hate it when im asked to do the programming for a game, but the engine has already been copy/pasted. Same thing applies for art i guess

how strickt are you on the part where nothing else can read it? because you could just go:

my_mc.myVar:VarType = VarValue

my suggest would be to make it roll in with some frames, and then stop in the middle of the animation, then have another set of frames for rolling out. on the middle one, where you want the logo to remain while waiting for the user, you would have a stop() command. The buttons will then play the logo again, and then on the last frame you could have the logo remove its self from the stage