2Questions

[Re2deemer]

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.Scorpion)) {
_root.victim.Play();
}
}

Thats the code on victim. If the Scorpion hits it then it stays idle instead of playing an animation of its second frame. How come?

[Jonone]

At 6/22/06 02:49 PM, Re2deemer wrote: onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.Scorpion)) {
_root.victim.Play();
}
}

Thats the code on victim. If the Scorpion hits it then it stays idle instead of playing an animation of its second frame. How come?

Wouldn't know, double-checked your instance names?

try changing _root.victim. to just this.

Also, it is obvious you can count well.

[PBM]

Like he said..try:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.Scorpion)) {
this.Play();
}
}

does that work?

[Re2deemer]

nope...I'm getting confused already. There has to be a mistake, but I can't freakin find it...

[reality-check7]

At 6/22/06 02:49 PM, Re2deemer wrote: onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.Scorpion)) {
_root.victim.Play();
}
}

Thats the code on victim. If the Scorpion hits it then it stays idle instead of playing an animation of its second frame. How come?

If the animation is on a movie clip on the second frame, change the play to a gotoAndStop(2).

[Re2deemer]

Ok....I replaced the Play() with gotoAndStop() and it worked :D

[Re2deemer]

Oh yeah...almost forgot hte second question...

Hoq can I make so, that on MC follows another, so that they have exactly same x and y all the time

[reelbigcheese]

At 6/23/06 07:44 AM, Re2deemer wrote: Oh yeah...almost forgot hte second question...

Hoq can I make so, that on MC follows another, so that they have exactly same x and y all the time

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x=_root.thing._x
this._y=_root.thing._y;
}

exactly the same x and y.

yey?

[Re2deemer]

no dice... I want camFrame to follow Manta
I don't know why but applying this code to camFrame and replaceing thing with Manta didnät work

[FluffyKittens]

The first code didn't work because AS is case sensitive. I'm suprised that none of these other pro scripters picked up on that. It's play(), not Play(). As for the second one, RBC's should work fine.

[reelbigcheese]

At 6/23/06 09:54 AM, Re2deemer wrote: no dice... I want camFrame to follow Manta
I don't know why but applying this code to camFrame and replaceing thing with Manta didnät work

dont know why?! you may be doing something wrong. put this on cam frame and see if it works. by the way does "Manta" have a capital letter? ill put it without but remember capitals matter. so change it if it does.

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x=_root.manta._x
this._y=_root.manta._y;
}

[Re2deemer]

yeah, it was my bad...I forgot to give the Manta an instance name. Worked perfectly, thx!!!

BTW, Manta is with a capital letter, because it is an hover vehicle from UT2004.

[FluffyKittens]

At 6/23/06 10:09 AM, Re2deemer wrote: yeah, it was my bad...I forgot to give the Manta an instance name. Worked perfectly, thx!!!

BTW, Manta is with a capital letter, because it is an hover vehicle from UT2004.

It's considered bad form to start names with capitals in scripting :P

[MadGiraffe]

At 6/23/06 10:09 AM, Re2deemer wrote: BTW, Manta is with a capital letter, because it is an hover vehicle from UT2004.

That's a bad reason, because script doesn't ammend by such reasons. It's easier to just do everything lowcase.

[Re2deemer]

what the hell???
why does it matter to you if manta is written with a capital letter?

[MadGiraffe]

At 6/23/06 10:46 AM, Re2deemer wrote: what the hell???
why does it matter to you if manta is written with a capital letter?

Well not to me, I'm just trying to help here. In before you get a large flash with hundreds of lines of codes.
You'll thank me for having everything easily typable, because one mistake in the caps (which is very easily made), and you'll get confused big time and irritated to search trough all of the code.

[Ruzhyo]

Its not necessarily a bad thing, it's just not a generally good idea, since if you forget something is capitalized, you could end up wasting a long time trying to figure out what is wrong with your code. Experienced scriptors keep everything lowercase.