1st person shooter view.

[mechias3]

Is there a way to get flash to move sort of like halo? Where the mouse is always in the middle of the screen and when you move the mouse, the view rotates. I kind of want to do the same thing, but with an airplane game. Where, if you move the mouse right, everything besides your cockpit moves to the left, as your plane goes right. Could someone help me out here?

[ZealousZephyr]

That's because it is in 3D. And 3D in Flash is not easy and laggy(if there is a lot of 3D objects). I suggest you start with something simpler(assuming this is your first game).

[mechias3]

At 7/20/08 05:27 PM, ZealousZephyr wrote: That's because it is in 3D. And 3D in Flash is not easy and laggy(if there is a lot of 3D objects). I suggest you start with something simpler(assuming this is your first game).

Well, actually, i know that halo is 3-d, and flash is 2-D. I just want everything else to scroll in the opposite direction of the mouse. Let's say there's a building. If you move your mouse Left, then the building would move right. That's what i'm trying to do. If I can do that, then it's total pwnage game, here I come.

[Wurmy]

At 7/20/08 05:40 PM, mechias3 wrote: Well, actually, i know that halo is 3-d, and flash is 2-D. I just want everything else to scroll in the opposite direction of the mouse. Let's say there's a building. If you move your mouse Left, then the building would move right. That's what i'm trying to do. If I can do that, then it's total pwnage game, here I come.

If you can't do that there won't be any pwnage game.. what you're asking for is very simple :/

[Suomenkauhu]

Search from the forums, I bet that someone has allready wrote a concluson for that.

[mechias3]

Well, I'm mainly a graphics guy, but I'm learning actionscript. Could you please with sugar on top give me the actionscript to do so, or tell me how to do it? Or both?

[Wurmy]

At 7/20/08 05:46 PM, mechias3 wrote: Well, I'm mainly a graphics guy, but I'm learning actionscript. Could you please with sugar on top give me the actionscript to do so, or tell me how to do it? Or both?

No. If you want to know how, then learn actionscript. What you're doing now is NOT learning how to AS, but just asking other people to AS for you.

If you really want to learn how to AS then google some basic AS tutorials, and learn from the beginning. Start off by making small ( I MEAN SMALL ) games. No really, don't make your first game some super pwnage whatever game because it won't be a super pwnage whatever game.

[Vorlek]

At 7/20/08 04:01 PM, mechias3 wrote: Where the mouse is always in the middle of the screen

You cant control where the mouse goes in flash, and 3d shooters arnt basic things to do, whoever said that.

[mechias3]

To wurmy. I am learning actionscript, I can do a bit, but I'm just confused here. And when I'm confused, I ask questions to solve them.

Anyway, I just want to know how to make the background move right when you move the mouse left. It's like having a normal mouse (which is the background), move in the opposite direction as your REAL mouse.

[Superuberman69]

he wants his bg to do similar things to sniper games (cant think of any right now

[Vorlek]

ah, i know what you are on about now. Sorta like this: http://www.camperstrike.co.uk/bs_play.ph p
Il post again hopefully explaining how to do it if this is what your looking for

[gankro]

put everything you want to move into an mc and give it an instance name of "stuff", adjust it so the registration point is at the center of the screen and in the middle of the mc. then put this code on teh frame:

onEnterFrame = function(){
stuff._x = -_xmouse
}

[mechias3]

nevermind, i'm doing it a simpler way.

[Vorlek]

For the gun add this code to your gun and it should move across the screen, with your mouse, but it wont move all the way up the screen.

onClipEvent (load)
{
ymovement = this._y;
gunheight = this._height;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse / 600 * gunheight + ymovement;
}

[Glaiel-Gamer]

There's no way to lock the mouse using just actionscript.

[Vorlek]

And for the background: Just add this onto your frame actions

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
background._x = scene._x-(scene._x+_xmouse);
background._y = scene._y-(scene._y+_ymouse);
};

the instance name for the background is background obviously

[mechias3]

I've found a better way to do this. For example, if I went down with the actionscript I was thinking of, it would look like crap because it wouldn't seem like it was looking down, because if the parts only slide, then it's going to look like i'm lowering. Instead, I made the ship fly through a course, and you control the guns, so you shoot planes as they come by. Or, rather, i'm GOING to make it like that.

[Vorlek]

Ah, so you were looking for a rail shooter kind of thing, ok, then, good luck with your game

[mechias3]

Thanks, I'd show a screenshot of what I have so far, if I knew how.