Hello amazing Stack Overflow members
I need some help :(
I've drawn 3 shapes to the stage using the rectangle tool. (Flash CS6).
WITHOUT making these movie clips or naming them,
How do I move them individually!?
Cheers and love your work.
Put them on separate layers, then use Shape Tweens.
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I am looking for a simple AS3 script to move/follow a movieclip (arrrow) along a manually drawn path in flash. Like.. it moves for the start point if the line to the end point of the line, also should rotate at curves automatically.
Also is it possible to duplicate this movieclip (arrrow) tho specific distance, like a ground of arrows moving along a path continuously with specific distance from eachother?
I am working on few infoGraphs and need this arrows animation to show the workflow.
I desperately needs this, pls help!
Cheers,
bp
There could be libraries that help with this, as George Profenza mentions in his comment, and it is certainly possible to calculate points along a bezier.
However, a much simpler solution is to do what people have done since Flash 4. Draw the curve in Flash, then create a motion tween along the curve using an empty MovieClip. At runtime, you can use addChild() to insert your MovieClip as a child of the empty one. You will have a lot more manual control this way, compared to the bezier library.
We're developing a game with impactjs that allows 'chaining' of entities as they are clicked. Basically this just draws a line between the two points, with a neon glow effect. So far, so good. Now, we have a request to make the 'chain' connections animated - fire, sparkles, etc. Essentially things that seem like they'd need actual graphic animations to look right. As the entities can be any distance/angle from each other, we're stuck at how to best implement a solution for this - that is, how to draw a diagonal image, for example, between two random points that we can animate. Any thoughts our suggestions on how to pull this off would be much appreciated.
Maybe create a particle entity with an Animation Sheet containing the necessary animations/particle effects. And then draw these particles along the line that from point A to point B.
When you want to animate it to fire/sparkles etc. run the animation for all those entities. in that line.
I'd be inclined to agree with Prat. Particle effects would most likely be what you need.
Here is a tutorial on generating particle effects in impact.js that might help you out.
http://www.pointofimpactjs.com/snippets/view/24/particle-effects-generation
I'm trying to animate a nodal with flash for teaching purposes. This is what I want to animate:
My questions:
How can I move the line through a guide?
Can guides hold z positions, so I could make the rope's top and bottom parts more real?
Can a vector image (rope) move through a guide path?
Which way is this possible, strokes or brushes?
Does as3 scripting support "decorated brush" effects?
Is there a simpler way to do this such as sandy or awake3d or beziercurves?
If you're using the IDE like CS4 or CS5 there are some menu options to do this. I only use a text editor and Flex SDK to compile. While I know what you're talking about, I can't really answer this one since I don't have the program. There's plenty of tutorials on the subject, however.
I believe the path-following tools in CS* only follow (x,y) coordinates. No Z values in the menus, but you can code them yourself. Again, I don't have the program, but from the tutorials I read it looks like no.
I suppose it could. Instead of a line drawing like you have here, you could simply use an image of one rope segment (as in a picture of rope whose length is equal to one twist of the rope), then apply transformations to get the correct 3D perspective.
Basic flash programs only draw fills. You can, however, run a shader program (called pixel bender) within flash which will draw strokes for you.
Not on it's own, no. But there is nothing stopping you from programming your own decorated brush class.
Bezier curves are probably the way to go.
Or that's what I think, at least.
I just began with AS3 and I'm trying to do a little game where one ball moves on its own and the other one is handled by the player. So far, so good. That works.
What isn't working is hitTestObject(); it just returns true when it's like 2 cm from the other object. Here's a picture so you can see: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37057843/coll2.jpg
I've read that hitTestObject just creats a rectangle around the objects and then tests for collisions on those rectangles, is it because of that?
If you need any piece of code I'll deliver. I know there are some other opensource libraries/engines like Box2D to solve this in a better way, but I don't want to jump to engines directly.
Thanks for reading!
Yes, hitTestObject will use the clips bounding box.
Check out this link, it has a lot of great information as well as a class that will do what you're looking for
http://sierakowski.eu/list-of-tips/39-collision-detection-methods-hittest-and-hittestobject-alternatives.html
Direct link to the package
http://code.google.com/p/collisiondetectionkit/
I want to make a jigsaw puzzle in flash. I know how to create square kind of shapes. But I want to create this kind of irregular shapes. See the live demo of puzzles in the links shown
http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/jigsawpuzzle/preview/4952.html
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/whitejigsaw/whitejigsaw.html
I just want to how to create the irregular shapes.
Does anyone know or can anybody give useful links as to how this can be done.
My ideas:
Shapes can be just Bitmaps, masked by irregular filled Shape. Each piece of puzzle has shared BitmapData. Shapes can be created by series of drawRect/drawEllipse/curveTo calls in fill mode.
Watch their relative positions to catch the moment when they should 'snap' together. Also cull combinations not close to each other.
If you're creating your shapes dynamically with code, try using the graphics.curveTo() method. This can be used in combination with graphics.lineTo() to make the outline for your pieces.
You could also make your pieces using the pen tool within the Flash IDE to create movie clips that can my used for creating object instances to be used as masks for your puzzle. This works if you plan on having the same puzzle layouts more than once.
That's done using masking: http://www.flash-here.com/tutorials/flash_masking.html
Have a look to the following:
http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=111#
A little bit old.