Hittesting with unknown names

[thenoodleman-com]

Eyess... I have clip1xx and clip2xx where xx can be anything, and I want to do a hittest between them so I can destroy clip1 on contact.

Any ideas?

[Chrispington]

Ok, the xx being anything is bad, try to limit it to between 1 - 50 or 1 - 100.

Then entr the world of for loops!

for(q=1;q<50;q++){
['clip'+q] code here!
}

the "for(q=1;q<30;q++)" will run this loop, increasing q by 1 each time it runs, until q = 50.

so it will test clip1 - 50, just refer to the clip with the Q as i have done "['clip'+q]"

make sense?

[Glaiel-Gamer]

you could push the MC's into an array then iterate through the array too

[Pyromaniac]

or something like this
for (i in _root) {
if (_root[i]._name.indexOf("enemy") != -1) {
//actions
}
}

Change enemy to whatever you want.

[Blaze]

At 6/6/06 09:50 PM, pyro111 wrote: or something like this
for (i in _root) {
if (_root[i]._name.indexOf("enemy") != -1) {
//actions
}
}

Change enemy to whatever you want.

in this case you would use:

for(i in _root){
if(_root[i]._name.indexOf("clip")!=-1){
if(_root[i].hitTest(something)){
actions;
}
}
}

Note that youd reffer to your "clips" as _root[i].

[Pyromaniac]

At 6/6/06 09:52 PM, Darkfire_Blaze wrote: stuff

I figured if hes coding a game he would understand a hitTest and be able to read the code. But I guess not.