So, I am trying to make a flash game with a bomber plane with a rear-gunner. I have made the plane a movieclip and, inside that, have the gunner movieclip. I am trying to use key controls to move the plane and have the gunner follow the mouse cursor. I am not certain if there is a way to make the gunner movieclip stay attached to the plane and move independently. Right now the only thing that works is instantiating a gunner and adding it to the frame, but I am having problems keeping it in the right location while the plane moves.
you can refer to a movieclip in another movieclip by naming it
Picture example:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/weNeF.png
then you can refer to it in your actionscipt by writingyourPlane_mc.gun Example: yourPlane_mc.gun.rotation = mouseAngleToPlane
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I drew an image on the stage and converted it to a movieclip whose name is
originalMovieClip
. The movieclip is now in my library. I dragged the movieclip in my library onto the stage. I did this twice, so now I have two movieclips which are both an instance of
originalMovieClip
which was the original movieclip which I created.
Through actionscript 3, is there a way for me to target all movieclips which are an instance of
originalMovieClip
? I want to basically do
all Movieclips Which Are An Instance Of originalMovieClip.gotoAndStop(2);
In such a basic manner, the short answer is - NO.
Short story long - you need to put them into array and loop through it, and stop every movie clip inside.
Other technique (not appropriate) is to loop through all children of stage, and check if the MovieClip is specific type (again you should at least set linkage class to originalMovieClip).
I suggest using the first one :)
I have a movieclip moving and when I click him I want that appears a hole.
Its possible do that with actionscript? how?
If your hole should appear there the mouse clicks, you could create new Sprite, draw two circles (one bigger than your MovieClip, another at size of you hole, both at position of your click) using his graphics property. Fill it with any color. It should look like donut.
After that assign created Sprite as a mask for your MovieClip.
youMovieClipId.mask=createdSpriteId;
After that, you could add mask as child of your MovieClip, using
youMovieClipId.addChild(createdSpriteId);
Now created mask will follow your MovieClip.
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.
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 a fully working flash application, made in as3. Now i dynamicly added a movieclip and i would like to be able to erase that movieclip with a eraser of some sort, my goal is to be able pick up a sponge with the mouse and then start dragging over the movieclip and erasing the parts where i dragged over it.
Anyone who can help?
Looks like this might be what you're looking for:
http://www.piterwilson.com/personal/2008/05/07/bitmapdata-erasing-in-as3-with-custom-brush-shape/
Is the background behind the MovieClip always the same?
If so you can put an image of the background over the MovieClip you want to erase, and mask that image so it becomes invisible, then add a click listener that draws a circle in the mask when clicked. This way it'll look like the MovieClip is being erased.
With getPixel you can loop over the mask and detect the percentage of the MovieClip that has been erased, so you can remove the clip from stage when it's fully erased.