Spelling for beginners
The BG Music was terrible, and the mouse added some extra annoyance. These are the basic scrpits that most animators know already.
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the same as before, but the dragging glitch and the spelling error is fixed. you can drag the circle, but the cutstom cursor will glitch, but you'll still have a normal cursor. this will change once you hit back
Needs Improvement
Tutorials are useful in general, but there's a lot of badly formatted spaghetti code in what you submitted - especially in what you call the GTA, [asteroids style] clip movement. That code is horrible, and could be rewritten with far fewer lines. You also initialize a bunch of variables you don't even use, which suggests to me that the code has been adapted from something else.
If you have access to Flash MX or MX2004, I suggest you create a key listener object instead of using the key.isDown approach - listeners are more responsive.
You might like to take the sample code and place it in a text area to make it more viewable.
You can also get much better performance with custom cursors by using an onMouseMove handler with updateAfterEvent();, and simply set the x and y coordinates of your clip to the _root._xmouse and _root._ymouse values every time the event handler fires. The drag method was used back with Flash 4, but you'll notice that it does nasty stuff when you try to use it while handling a draggable movie clip....
Hope this is of some help.
Same?
Isn't this exactly the same as the first one? Correct me if I'm wrong here but I didn't notice any differences between this one and the first one.
just cause
i am protecting this and hope it manages to stay here...i might need it in the future.
-thx
Nice....lotsa bugs tho.
Well, it has both cons and pros. Its a good idea to teach newbs, but also remember that "these Newbs" might think the "bugs" are part of the "show".
Firstly fix the ball drag problem...instead of dragging the mouse cursor, use the other way...ask in the forums.
Also change the cursors registry point to top left so that the new cursor works properly...(right now the center of the cursor is where the default mouse clicking point is).
Oh yeah. Change the design. Make it look professional. Make a list of tutorials and add more...do all this and submit the 3rd version :)
good luck