Re: FLASH: Flash4: more efficient method?

[Cheri Harder]

Hi, Bob.


I didn't exactly make it very clear here, did I.  Sorry.  Yes, n is just a

counter, and we're using it to give the new duplicated mc's their own,

unique instance names so we can tell-target and change their properties,

etc.


In the code:


> > > Set Variable: "/:n" = /:n+1

> > > Duplicate Movie Clip ("/mcCell", "cell"&/:n, n)

> > > Set Property ("cell"&/:n, Rotation) = Random (360)

> > > Set Property ("cell"&/:n, Alpha) = Random (30)+70



the old movie clip is named mcCell

the new one is named cell1 and it's z-order is 1

when you are setting it's properties of Rotation and Alpha, etc., you need

to do so by referring to its name as an expression - ie. "cell"&/:n


You'll need a loop and a stopping place, too.  It would be easier if the

action were in a little two-frame movie clip, if it's not too hard to move,

then you can simply add an action to frame two that says "go to and play

frame 1" and there will be your loop.  As for the end, the sample I was

pulling from was a starfield/planet simulation and simply re-set n to 0 when

it reached 1000, because it was an on-going thing, and the stars and planets

were going off screen so we always needed new ones.  In your case, you might

want to have something like


If n > 100

  stop

end if


Not only was my prior post unclear, but the expressions, etc., were

downright wrong!  I hope they're ok now above.  If you need me to look at

your code, shoot it to me off line & I'll look at it.  I'm much better at

"de-bugging" than "telling"



~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Merrill, Bob" <

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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:47 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: Flash4: more efficient method?



> Sorry for being so thick today. I've duplicated the movie clip and set

> different properties for each instance. That part works fine. Exactly how

am

> I to use the variable /:n though? What is n? I see it gets incremented by

1

> everytime it is used. Is that like repeat with i?

>




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