I have a MovieClip with 5 frames. On it are some other movieclips, quite a few of them. On every frame of the first MovieClip they are positoned differently and when I change the frame they change location. Everything works great until I change something within the actionscript.
If I try to color the child MovieClip or do anything with it and then change the frame, the MC stays on the same spot, it does not change location like it should (and does if I dont change it).
Why is this happening? Can I do something to fix it?
Thank you :)
Try changing the position of the movieclips dynamically, using actionscript on each frame, instead of directly on the stage.
[movieclip].x = [Number];
[movieclip].y = [Number];
I'm pretty sure objects that have been referenced in actionscript tend to ignore the IDE positioning in later frames, so you need to dynamically move them. I've seen it happen to me heaps of times.
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I've gathered all game pages on different frames of movieclip called game. in that game movieclip there are 4 different frames. on third frame I have some drag & drop functionality. When I drag one item, I want it to be on the front, I mean all other objects on that frame must not block the view of current dragging object. I used this.setChildIndex(currentDraggingObject,this.numChildren-1); but the problem is whenever I drag objects, when I change the frame, those objects are shown on that frames as well.
In short description: When I set an object's Index in MovieClip(game) , that object is seen in each frame of MovieClip(game) , how can I fix this?
I've searched the result online but couldn't find a solution.
Thank you
-Ozan
Instead of this:
this.setChildIndex(currentDraggingObject,this.numChildren-1);
You can simply use this:
this.addChild(currentDraggingObject); //shorter and clearer
If you have some object on a frame and you actually add it again, it indeed stays there in the other frames (I found this out too). The best/fastest solution would be to simple remove them before you are going to change the frame with this.removeChild(object)
I have a movie clip that I animate in my timeline.
At a certain point of my code I need to move that mc by actionscript and at another point I need it to do the timeline animation.
Now, I know that if I alter my movieclip through AS the timeline animations will be ignored further on, but I was wondering: is there a way to force the movieclip to follow the timeline tweenings back again?
No. Once you change a property, it is detached from the timeline.
One solution is having another movieclip inside that movieclip. That way, the timeline animates the main movieclip, but you can access the inner movieclip with a reference to it and do whatever additional transformations you want to it. How you do this will depend on what exactly you're doing, and you have to remember the transformations will "stack", but it works.
I know this question has been asked before but as a noob i did not understand the answer so im hoping someone can explain a little more for me.
I have an arrow animated along a path using a motion tween I want when a button is clicked for an endless stream of arrows to follow the path, this would be easy if you could put more than one object on a motion tween but you cant? Can anyone help with the code id need to make this happen.
Is there a way to repeat the movieclip again before its finished to give this effect?
Do you have any code, or example of exactly what you're trying to accomplish?
You can use multiple instances of the same movie clip... So (for the sake of explanation) you could animate your arrow once, make sure it's its own movieClip, put it on the stage, and test your movie...It will loop over and over. You can drag as many instances of this movie on to the stage and they will all play, over and over until it's told to stop.
If you need ALL of the arrows to be one movie clip, as to be one addressable object, you can simply select all of your positioned arrows, and convert those into one movieClip (right click, convert to Symbol)
Of course all of this can be controlled precisely through code, but need to know a bit more about what you're trying to do. hope this helps a little...
The function play() will loop your movie forever, unless you have a stop() function somewhere.
yourMovie.play();
If you want to "repeat" / "reset" a MovieClip at any time, use gotoAndPlay() :
yourMovie.gotoAndPlay(1);
If you want to verify if you are at the end of your clip, use the properties currentFrame and totalFrames :
if (yourMovie.currentFrame == yourMovie.totalFrames)
{
// ex. if you want to stop
yourMovie.stop();
}
Ref : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/MovieClip.html
Hope that help. Be more specific, if it doesn't answer your question.
Is there a way in AS3 to make a the mouse ignore a certain movieclip? I need it to be on top of the other movieclips (due to transparancy effects), but have it in a way that allows clicking on the movieclips underneath it. I know about ".mouseChildren = false", but that only makes all the stuff inside that movieclip unclickable, but it still functions as a "barrier" on top of all the others buttons.
Is there a way to do this, or do I need to remove it completely ?
You need to set both .mouseChildren and .mouseEnabled to false before you can click on objects behind the MovieClip. This makes the mouse ignore the objects within the MovieClip and the MovieClip itself.
Source: http://pixelfumes.blogspot.com/2008/01/clicking-through-movieclips-to.html
EDIT: Oops, didn't see that comment by Alex, sorry.
I have these 2 separate FLA (AS3) files and I want to merge them together. One FLA, let's name "Animation.fla", consists of a 1-frame animation with a class assigned to its main stage, let's label it "MainStage.cs." The other FLA file, label it, "Navigator.fla", consists of 3 frames where I have to navigate different frames to get to the animation on the Animation.fla.
I have tried nesting the two but I gain errors when trying to convert the whole Animation.fla to movieclip and put it on the frame of the Navigator.fla. It's seems it's not the correct way to do it.
Please fill me in with ideas on merging animations with Classes since I'm still new to this.
I have tried nesting the two but I
gain errors when trying to convert the
whole Animation.fla to movieclip and
put it on the frame of the
Navigator.fla. It's seems it's not the
correct way to do it.
This is one way to do it. It could be that your code has errors. Please post your code.
In the meantime, check if:
-your MovieClips have instance names
-you are referencing your MovieClips correctly in your code.
You could you create a new movieclip on the stage of Animation.fla and select all of the frames in Navigator.fla, right click and "copy frames". Then go back to Animation.fla and paste them into your new movieclip. This will work if you don't have a main class in Animation.fla.