Shooting with the A button

[Flash-Beagle]

Ok, I'm desperate here, I'm making a basic side scrolling platformer . Everything is going fine so far, standing, running, jumping all work fine, except for I 'm having trouble with the 4th frame where the attack animation is. I have it set so that the Player can shoot by pressing the A key, the problem is when I press the A key it only plays the first frame of the movieclip I have the shooting animation in. Can anyone help me out with this, I'm new to AS and have been playing around with this for hours and searching the forums for solutions.

if (Key.isDown(32))
{
this.gotoAndStop(4);

[Flash-Beagle]

Here's the full code, I'm using Atomic Sponge's tutorial.

onClipEvent (load) {
stop();
hitwallr = false;
hitwalll = false;
grav = 0;
jumping = true;
running = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) and !jumping) {
gotoAndStop(2);
this._xscale = 100;
if (!hitwallr) {
this._x += 9;
running = true;
}
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) and !jumping) {
gotoAndStop(2);
this._xscale = -100;
if (!hitwalll) {
this._x -= 9;
running = true;
}
} else {
running = false;
if (!jumping) {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
if (Key.isDown(65)) {
this.gotoAndStop(4);
}
}
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) and !jumping) {
if (!running) {
jumping = true;
grav = 15;
this.gotoAndStop(3);
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) and !hitwallr) {
this.gox = 11;
jumping = true;
grav = 14;
this.gotoAndStop(3);
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) and !hitwalll) {
this.gox = -11;
jumping = true;
grav = 14;
this.gotoAndStop(3);
}
}
if (jumping) {
this.gotoAndStop(3);
this._y -= grav;
grav -= 1;
if (!hitwallr and !hitwalll) {
this._x += gox;
}
} else {
gox = 0;
}
}

[Momo-the-Monkey]

At 7/10/06 05:55 AM, Flash_Beagle wrote:

if (Key.isDown(32))
{
this.gotoAndStop(4);

that's not the a button

the a button is 64

[Flash-Beagle]

whoops, yea 32 is the space bar, A is actually 65, but that's not the problem, it responds to pressing the key, but won't play the full mc animation, just the first frame of it.

[Momo-the-Monkey]

i knew it was either 64-65 or whatever.

Do you have stop(); on that one frame?

[Flash-Beagle]

No AS at all on that frame

[Jovatov]

Very weird, try instance naming the movieclip attack_mc or something and then

if(keyIsDown(65)) {
gotoAndStop(4);
attack_mc.play();

It's a long shot, it may not work, but I can't see any other problems here.

[Flash-Beagle]

Yup wierd, when i put that in, I don't get any any errors, but then when I press A, it doens't do anything at all.

[Flash-Beagle]

-bump

this is driving me crazy

[ismellarat]

I have a similar problem with my walking code. My guy walks in all 4 directions, but for left, down and right, it only shows the first frame and up works perfect :/.

[Nuggs]

At 7/10/06 08:48 AM, Jovatov wrote:

if(keyIsDown(65)) {
gotoAndStop(4);
attack_mc.play();

maybe it is the Stop
try gotoAndPlay(4);

to quote Carlos Mencia:
"deet dee dee"

[Flash-Beagle]

Nope still no luck, I'll try playing around with it some more.