Looking 4 acceleration physics

[Jigganis]

Hello all I'm a beginning scripter who's now looking for a simple and efficient slice of code that'll let me emulate acceleration of movement when moving left or right on a flat plane, as in typical 2D platformers like Mario, Sonic, or Cave Story.

I'd guess this involves a function like "while movementSpeed < maxSpeed, movement speed = movement speed + 1", but lacking experience, I can't figure it out.

Can anyone help me in regards to this? I would be extremely grateful, of course.

[Kirk-Cocaine]

AS: Movement - Asteroids ship should point you in the right direction.

[Jigganis]

Thanks a lot!

I don't mean to sound rude, but are there any more good tutorials, just in case I screw that code
up somehow?

[Kirk-Cocaine]

At 6/12/07 01:41 PM, Jigganis wrote: I don't mean to sound rude, but are there any more good tutorials

If you mean just on acceleration, you could always try flashkit.com. There's also lots of good tutorials on general AS here on NG, mainly AS: Main.

[TamiyaGuy]

I'm making an asteroids game, and I used this tut. However, some of the things are a bit dodgy if you're using Flash 8, so if you want the AS I used, I can e-mail it you, or post it somewhere (the BBS doesn't like actionscript; it puts spaces in a load of places). My asteroids AS works really well, and is very easily edited to your specs, frame rate etc.

Or I can PM you the AS.