Code for movieclip following cursor

[ChuklesDaClown]

I have gotten this code to work in AS2 what I am trying to acomplish is add a more elastic movement to the object does anyone know how to accomplish this?
current code:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
this._x = _root._xmouse+20;
this._y = _root._ymouse+20;
}

[gankro]

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
_x = (_root._xmouse-_x)/25;
_y = (_root._ymouse-_x)/25;
 }

mayhaps? MAY have gotten the two swapped around... pretty sure its final - initial...

[ChuklesDaClown]

well after some tweaking and asking around I came up with this only problem is its elasticity is way to high I need to get it to bounce a little less and for less time in other words not to stretch as much and for less time. anyone understand this enough to know which variables I need to change.

onClipEvent(load) {
this.momentumx = 0;
this.momentumy = 0;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
distx = this._x - _root._xmouse;
disty = this._y - _root._ymouse;
this.momentumx -= distx / 8;
this.momentumy -= disty / 8;

this._x += this.momentumx / 8;
this._y += this.momentumy / 8;
}

[gankro]

At 5/13/08 08:51 PM, ChuklesDaClown wrote: well after some tweaking and asking around I came up with this only problem is its elasticity is way to high I need to get it to bounce a little less and for less time in other words not to stretch as much and for less time. anyone understand this enough to know which variables I need to change.

onClipEvent(load) {
this.momentumx = 0;
this.momentumy = 0;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
distx = this._x - _root._xmouse;
disty = this._y - _root._ymouse;
this.momentumx -= distx / 8;
this.momentumy -= disty / 8;

this._x += this.momentumx / 8;
this._y += this.momentumy / 8;

mod the 8's to change elasticity. (must mod each pair equally or else will not work) the first pair will define how quickly it will snap the second pair will define how softly it will go in... I think... hard to picture this properly... to lazy to test...

[gankro]

alright, tested it, basically the 8's will not mod elasticity, just how slowly it will move, elasticity is a constant in this engine, basically, the object will stretch out to as far as it was in the opposite direction.

onClipEvent (load) {
	momentumx = 0;
	momentumy = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	distx = _x-_root._xmouse;
	disty = _y-_root._ymouse;
	momentumx -= distx/8;
	momentumy -= disty/8;
	_x += momentumx;
	_y += momentumy;
	momentumx /= 1.1;
	momentumy /= 1.1;
}

this will actually be elastic, mod "1.1" to mod elasticity.