Movie Clip Collision
I have created a Movie Clip I can control with my keyarrows,now I want to steer that movieclip in to another movieclip andthen create a function that becouse of the collision of the twomovie clips takes me to another frame.How do I do?
Actionscript 2.0
Posted on: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:46 am
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Collision In A Movie Clip
im makeing an isometric RPG game but i have a problem with the hitTest already and im not verry far in yet. im currently working on the walking engine. so far i simply have
function moveCharicter() {
if (key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x -= 4;
this._y -= 2;
this.gotoAndStop(1);
if (this.hitTest(_root.wall)==true) {
this._x += 4;
this._y += 2;
}
} else {
if (key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x += 4;
this._y += 2;
this.gotoAndStop(2);
if (this.hitTest(_root.wall)==true) {
this._x -= 4;
this._y -= 2;
}
} else {
if (key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._x += 4;
this._y -= 2;
this.gotoAndStop(3);
if (this.hitTest(_root.wall)==true) {
this._x -= 4;
this._y += 2;
}
} else {
if (key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this._x -= 4;
this._y += 2;
this.gotoAndStop(4);
if (this.hitTest(_root.wall)==true) {
this._x += 4;
this._y -= 2;
}
}
}
}
}
}
hero.onEnterFrame = moveCharicter
this works fine if i make the wall just a simple block but as its isometric i have made the wall one big black movie clip with an isometric shaped hole in it where the hero should be able to walk in. however i know as it counts the wall movieclip as one big thing so the heros movement was perminantly stuck i was wondering if anyone could help with the actionscript so the hit test was a shape hit test thingy?
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(can we post our files and images also in this forum? if yes! please tell me how. It will help me to explain the problem)
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I am very new to flash and playing around with it, and I am trying to make it so that when you rollover a movie clip, it plays the rollover action inside the movieclip (which is a mask of a portion of an image, then when rolled over shows more of that image)and cause the movieclip next to it to move over when the rolled over movieclip expands. So basically when one MC is rolled over and expands I want the other to move over too, in order to compensate for the rolled over MC.
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//
on stage:
BOX
MOVIE CLIP WITH CIRCLE IN IT
//
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I am creating empty movie clips and populating them with movie clips that have "drag and drop" functionality. I can create the empty movie clip and populate it with an external .swf. I've even got the drag-n-drop handled. But, I'd like to have them delete or disappear when they are dropped onto a trash can movie clip. I just can't seem to figure out the code for this. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me.
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I have many instances of a movie clip (by using duplicateMovieClip) on my stage, each with a name of "clip1", "clip2", "clip3" etc.
I have many instances of another movie clip, like the one above, but all derived from a different original movie clip. They're named "something1", "something2" etc.
I want to put an "if" statement that performs a "hitTest" between one of the "something" movie clip instances and ANY of the "clip" instances.
This is the code I have inside the onClipEvent (enterFrame) of the "something" instance:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this, hitTest(_root.varClip)) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
and I have this code in a frame on the _root level
for (var i = 1; i<=3; i++) {
_root.varClip = ["clip"+i];
}
Nothing is working this way. Is there some other way that I can check the collision using arrays?
Am I mixing up the paths?
I'd really appreciat some help with this. I feel like I'm so close already.
Thanks
Kevin
Adding Collision Detection To A Custom Movie Clip
Hey, guys. I've created a custom movie clip object (by extending the movieclip class) and instantiated a number of them for a game I'm making. From what I've read, you can add collision detection to the custom object. Before hand, with each frame I'd loop through every single object and see if something hit it. As a matter of fact, I did that for one game I just made and everything worked beautifully. However, can't I do something like
Code:
class Something extends MovieClip {
var someVar;
function Something (x,y,someVar) {
this._x = x;
this._y = y;
this.someVar = someVar;
}
function hitTest(someOtherObject) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
If I can do this, the question becomes, how do I pass in the object to do the test? Do I pass it in as a member variable when I attach the movie clip? For example, I pass in values for the constructor with
_root.attachMovie("instance1","Something",this.getNextHighestDepth,{x:100,y:100,someVar:12});
where the final parameter is the initial values. Should I pass in all objects that could possible hit the attached movie clip then check within hitTest? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I want it so that when i get to the last frame of movie_b and press the button, it will go to the next frame of movie_a
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Im trying to trigger some sound when movies collide (for a very basic game im doing for my 5 year old son). I have created a movie clip of an animated man walking. Inside of this movie clip i have created another clip which i intend to use as the hot spot for triggering sounds. This is all well and good but i cant sort out the action script need to trigger the sounds. Any tutorials i have found have all been for earlier versions of flash and therefore wont workwith the new action script. I also need to to you the collide movie function to load a new movie when the animated charector reaches his destination. This i would imagine would be very similar to the script needed for the sound trigger. Can anyone please help me with this or point me in the right direction for some tutorials? I promised him it would be done for the weekend (silly me)
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Hi!
I have problems testing the collision of two movieclips. My problem is that the collision is detected by the bouding boxes of the movieclips and not the actual surface of the shapes of the movieclips. This way it says they collide, even when they don't touch eachother (only the bounding boxes). I Searched for all kinds of possibilities to solve this, but I couldn't. If somebody has a creative idea, PLEASE let me know!!!!
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Hello there!
I'm new to this forum but I've been playing around with Flash since I was little.
Recently I made a simple first-step to a game where you can point the character with the mouse and shoot with a click.
I'm adding characters to the world with the attachMovie() method, which is also the way I'm adding the bullets or magic bolts or whatever it's going to be.
This is the unfinished code for creating an enemy. Sorry for the Swedish. I'm in a hurry.
Code:
getEnemy = function() {
++djup;
var name = "snubbe"+djup;
_root.attachMovie("snubbe", name, djup);
_root[name]._x = 550;
_root[name]._y = random(400);
_root[name].onEnterFrame = function() {
//I think it's here the code will fit in...
}
};
};
and the following is the code for the bullets(no rotation).
Code:
depth=0;
_root.onMouseDown = function() {
angle = gun._rotation;
angle = angle*Math.PI/180;
++depth;
name = "skott"+depth;
_root.attachMovie("skott", name, depth);
_root[name]._x = gun._x*Math.cos(angle);
_root[name]._y = gun._y*Math.sin(angle);
_root[name].xåk = speed*Math.cos(angle);
_root[name].yåk = speed*Math.sin(angle);
_root[name].onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += this.xåk;
this._y += this.yåk;
};
};
Thank you for your help.
Collision Detection For Attached Movie Clips
Hello,
I have a difficulty that I need help overcoming. To give some background information, here are the movie clips used:
1 movie clip called 'skater'
1 movie clip called 'token'
In the actionscript, 'token' is incremented to become 'token1', 'token2', etc.
I am using attachMovie to place the new 'token(i)' at different points on the stage. I then want my 'skater' to be able to collect them using a hitTest. I know my code works for other things as I tried it by creating another movie clip called 'obstacle' and substituting it in place of 'token(i)' and it worked perfectly.
I don't understand why my code isn't detecting the attached movie clips.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it. I have attached my code for you to look at.
Looking forward to an answer soon.
Cheers
Psylova
Attach Code
var i = 0;
function tokens()
{
timeSinceLastToken ++;
trace(timeSinceLastToken);
if((timeSinceLastToken > 20) && (Math.random()<.1))
{
i++;
var newname = "token"+i;
_root.attachMovie("token", newname, i*100);
_root[newname]._y = Math.random()*490 +240;
_root[newname]._x = 520;
trace(newname);
trace(timeSinceLastToken);
}
}
// works up until here - I can't get the tokens to register that they've been hit.
// I know the code works as I've tried it out with another object 'obstacle'
function collectToken()
{
if (_root.skater, hitTest(_root[newname]))
{
//_root[newname].swapDepths(10000);
_root[newname].removeMovieClip();
trace("Token Hit!!");
score ++;
}
}
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im having a problem here.
in my first frame i have a movie clip named "menu_mc".
i have this AS for this movie:
Code:
this.menu_mc.onRollOver = function() {
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}
this.menu_mc.onRollOut = function() {
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}
thats working ok, the menu_mc plays on rollover from frame 8 till frame 12 where stops.
On frame 12 (this is inside the menu_mc movie clip) i have another movie clip, named button1_mc.
and also i have AS controling that MC:
Code:
this.button1_mc.onRelease = function() {
getURL("index.htm", "_self");
}
The problem is that when i rollOver on menu_mc it work fine and the button1 appears, the problem is when i try to click button1...
doesnt work.
the swf you can see it on www.wt.com.mx/menu.swf
can anybody help me please?
what im doing wrong?
or what other ideas can you give me so i can make that work.
thanks!
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I have several movieclips I put together that will eventually be a menu for my website. When you roll over a menu option (movieclip) I am trying to get another movie clip to fade in giving the description of the menu item.
For example - when you roll your mouse over the 'Live Chat' option a brief text description would appear telling you what the live chat is about. This description is a seperate movie clip appearing away from the original menu.
I have made the movieclips for the menu and the movie clips for the descriptions. I tried this action on the menu option to get the description to fade in:
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this.onRollOver = function() {
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this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha += 5;
}
};
}
But the alpha only increases on the description (mc_text_discussionBoard) by 5 when I keep rolling my move over and out and over again. It makes sense why it does that, but I'm not exaclty sure how to get it to continually increase the alpha by 5.
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Yeah that title sounds a little confusing...so i will explain:
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__________________________________________
this.profile_mc.onRelease = function() {
placeholder_mc.loadMovie("profileSection_mc","plac eholder_mc","_root.content");
}
__________________________________________
- "profile_mc is the button I am trying to activate to load the
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So i tried: gotoAndPlay("mission", 1); (mission is the name of my scene)
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startDrag(pointer,1);
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I have done searches in many forums and it's foolish looking for an answer that way, because quite frankly every thread I opened was something to do with LoadMovie or GetURL, etc.
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}
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Using
ActionScript Code:
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ActionScript Code:
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Can any of you shed some light as to why this is not working:
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emptyMC.attachMovie("mrimc","instance1",this.getNe xtHighestDepth());
}
what I want to have happen is when the user clicks a button it loads the mirmc into emptyMC on the stage.
I have double checked that my empty movie clip does indeed have an instance name of emptyMC and that the movie I want to load into does in fact have the name mrimc in the library. Any ideas?
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I used the code below to make a movie clip face the mouse, it works when I use it on a movie clip that's not embedded in another movie clip, but when I used it on an embedded movie clip, it's axis seems to change.
Attach Code
var stickGun:MovieClip = this.stick_holder.stickGun_mc;
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onMove);
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove);
function onMove(event:Event):void {
// get the radian value of the angle between the clip and the mouse...
var myRadians:Number = Math.atan2(mouseY - stickGun.y, mouseX - stickGun.x);
// convert it to degrees...
var myDegrees:Number = Math.round((myRadians * 180 / Math.PI));
// get the horizontal and vertical distance between the clip and the mouse...
// rotate the clip toward the mouse...
stickGun.rotation = myDegrees;
}
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I'm loading an external image into an empty actionscript movie clip (holder1) using MovieClipLoader(); on frame one of my movie and is invisible. Then when the movie plays, there is an empty movie clip symbol (image1_mc) that is placed manually on the stage within another movie clip symbol (flash_mc), and is also on a bottom layer of a mask layer which is animated. Is it possible to place "holder1" inside of "image1_mc" so that I can treat it as if it were an embedded image? In other words, have the image in "holder1" inside of the manually placed movie clip symbol "image1_mc" so that I can use it like a regular symbol on the stage?
How Can I A Movie Clip Splash Prior To Attaching The Choose Movie Clip..Help
I have a presentation which I would like to publish on CD. What I want is to have movies attached to the container_mc on the stage upon clicking the desired navigation buttone. But before movie gets attached, I would like to have a logo_mc animation (from the library) to play itself before playing the selected clip.
I think I need to write up a function which will call the animation splash clip prior to attaching the clicked movie.
Appreaciate all the help.
Thanks so much.
Control Movie Clip In Container From Button Inside Other Movie Clip
There are three movie clips involved in this question.
1. A main movie clip that has a target empty movie clip where an external swf loads.
2. A menu movie clip that is built from button symbols and has its own timeline.
3. The external movie.
When a user clicks on the menu, the external swf loads into the empty movie clip target. This part works fine. Here's the code:
on (release) {
loadMovie ("Lesson1.swf", "_root.container");
}
I want to use one external swf for all lesson, versus 20 external swfs. The problem I'm having is controling at what frame the external swf loads. I've tried adding --gotoAndStop (15) -- for example. I've also tried adding, gotoAndStop "_root.container" (15), but that doesn't work either. The gotoAndStop action ends up controlling the menu movie clip timeline instead of the movie loaded into the container. I figure this is because the menu mc has "embedded" buttons and it's own timeline.
Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.
Thanks
Sheila
Creating A Button To Open A Movie Clip From Inside A Movie Clip?
I'm using a hexagon menu to display some images. One image is placed on each slide of the hexagon menu (which can then be rotated left and right to see other "slides").
What I want to do now is to be able to click on the object (image) as a button and for it to go to another scene which shows the image blown up and some description next to it (which is another movie)
I have tried the following which doesn't seem to work:
Created an invisible button (or choosing the image as a button) and having
on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene 5", 1);
}
this doesn't work when I use it over the hexagonal menu, but when I move the button to somewhere else on the screen (not over the movie) it works.
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Hi,
I am working on a scrolling thumbnail movie clip, that when you click on the thumbnail button inside the movie clip it will load an external movie clip. I have an empty movie clip on the main stage, and have been trying all sorts of code, but for some reason it doesn't like that I am inside a movie clip using buttons. It can't seem to find the external swf.
I have tried:
on (release) {
loadMovie (ithink.swf, "loader");
and
on (release) }
if (firstTime == true) {
loadMovie("ithink.swf", _root.loader);
firstTime = false;
} else {
_root.clicked = "ithink.swf";
_root.loader.gotoAndPlay("goback");
}
}
and so far nothing, for some reaosn when I click on a button outside of the movie clip with the above code it loads... and than the other works too, but if I click on the buttons inside the scolling movie clip first they won't work.
Any suggests or ideas!!?
I would really appreciate it... I am beyond frusterated!!
Problems With Collision Detection Between Movie Clips And Text Boxes
I have a large map (movie clip) on a stage that is much smaller so that only a portion of the map is shown on the stage at a time. The map contains points of interest (movies clips) and labels (text boxes) for those points. These points and labels are dynamically created and placed on the map. The position of the map point is determined by an external XML file and the label is positioned next to the map point. Each map point links to a corresponding webpage. The map point for the page the user is on becomes the center of the map and determines the portion of the map shown.
I have been able to get the map to re-center with reasonable accuracy and I am planning on using variables from the URL or flashvars to determine what map point should be the center based on the page the user is on. The problem I am currently having is there are several labels that overlap map points or other labels. I have been attempting to use collision detection to determine which labels are overlapping and move those labels to an empty area on the map. My first attempt at collision detection was with hitTest() but this was not working. From what I found, hitTest() only works with movie clips and the labels are dynamically created text boxes. It is necessary to have the labels as text boxes because the labels need to have a background color and have a variable width to accommodate the longer text ; this didn’t seem possible with a movie clip. Below is the method I am currently trying to use:
1. Create an instance of a movie clip (pre-existing movie clip from the library, containing a dot) for each map point and place according to the information in an external XML file.
2. Create text boxes for each label and place the text boxes next to the appropriate map point
3. Determine which labels overlap other labels or map points
4. Determine if the labels that overlap can be moved above or below their current position without causing new collisions.
5. Check to see if the new position of the labels that need to be moved will overlap with other labels that are being moved. If they do, find a new place for the label then move it. If not, just move the label.
There are several problems with the current method:
1. For the best results I have to check each corner of every label and map point to see if it overlaps with other labels. This results in lots of if-statements with the code in the if-statements being very similar.
2. While loops and functions do not work so there is lots of repeated code. When I use while loops, the Flash movie runs very slow and eventually crash the program before anything is placed on the map. When I use functions, I am unable to access variables inside the functions and I end up with a blank map when I test the movie. I thought this might be a variable scope problem and declared my variables outside of the function but this didn’t fix the problem.
3. Several label overlaps are not detected. I was thinking this has something to do with the depths of the labels because collisions only seem to be detected with labels that were placed after the label being tested but I don’t know if or how this problem can be fixed.
4. I can’t seem to get the labels to a point where all labels are not overlapping no matter where the map is centered. I can usually manage to get one portion of the map to look decent but as soon as I re-center the map the labels are overlapping in that portion worse than they were before.
I have searched extensively on the internet and can only find collision detection used for creating games. As you can see, I have been unsuccessful at tailoring the gaming solutions to my problem. What I would appreciate is any suggestions, links to websites or tutorials, or anything else that might be helpful in solving my problem. Thank you in advance for your help.
Using A Movie Clip Inside A Movie Clip To Start A Frame Of An MC Inside A Movie Clip
Situation:
I have a movie clip inside a movie clip with a button inside of it.
This button on release goes to a different movie clip(svideo) in a different frame on the maintime. This movie clip has a movie clip(portfolio) inside of it.
Okay: I use an absolute path on the aforementioned button
on release
_root.svideo.portfolio.gotoAndPlay(60);
But, for some reason Flash won't go to frame 60 of the portfolio movie clip that is inside of the svideo.
I have tried numerous variations on reaching frame 60 of portfolio. Like going to the maintime line and going to the portfolio MC. Also, portfolio and svideo are the instance names and not the name of the actual movie clip.
If anybody could help, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
A Button Inside A Movie Clip To Move Another Movie Clip
I'm building a web page and I have a button that I need to make two movie clips play. The button is inside one movie clip and in addition to it playing I want it to make another movie clip play. It doesn't seem to recognize the movie clip target names. Any help as to how this can be done would be much appriciated.
Thanx
Movie Clip Tween From A Random Point To Another Movie Clip?
ok...
on a website I am trying to make...i have a rotating E (lowercase)
it flips around and does all kindsa crap
but when a person clicks on a button, i want it to tween from whatever frame it is on, to where all 3 of them line up and do a little flashy type thing
ei:
e#1 - upside down and backwards
e#2 - sideways and rotating on the y axis
e#3 - rotating on the x axis
now i want all of these to tween from the point they are at to a specific order....so they are all flat (ei: they look like this "e")
how the heck do i do this?!? i know i have seen it somewhere!!
Duplicate Movie Clip / Remove Movie Clip Woes
I have built a an MC that will Duplicate an MC it does this a specified 114 times.
Once all of the MCs are in the Movie I want to pick a movie clip and remove it randomly. I am doing this now but It takes to long because it is looking for numbers that are no longer existant instead of just going for the ones that are already there.
I was talking to one of the programmers at my work and he was telling me to build an array that adds in a each duplicate mc name
for instance
amount = 1
I have 114 boxes each box as it is duplicated gets renamed box + amount
amount + 1
until it gets to 114
then it looks for each box1 - box 114 and gets rid of each box 1 - 114
But how could I get it so I remove lets say box 84 it wont look for 84 for any more
I was thinking
I dynamically rename every mc > 85 to name amount - 1
and have it randomly look for 113 the next time around and so on til it finally gets to zero...
Any one have any suggestions for me?
Or if you can point me in a direction that would be good as well
Thanks a bunch
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