RE: FLASH: Flash4: more efficient method?

[Merrill, Bob]

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?


 I am using the script on the main timeline in it's own layer named actions.

This certainly seems like a slick way to do this if I can figure it out.

Thanks Cheri and Michael.


BobMerrill



> This, to whomever had question of the importance of tweening with

> actionscript,

> is WHY you would want to tween with actionscript. So much smaller, easier

> and

> more powerful.

> 

> --

> Michael Dunn

> The Merica Agency

> 

> > I could picture it all done with one movie clip, or maybe three or four

> for

> > more variance in the look/shape/components of the blood cells, but you

> could

> > vary z-order, speed, rotation, size, alpha, and placement using

> duplicate mc

> > and randomizing the various property settings...

> >

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

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

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

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

> >

> > and so forth, with scale, etc.  Would need to make the back ones smaller

> &

> > darker though, so some of the numbers can't be totally random, but based

> on

> > a factor of some kind.

> >

> > Maybe this will give you some ideas, though.

> >

> > ~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

> >

> >> I have a question about how would be the most efficient way to complete

> >> this. My movie is 400w x 100h. It has about 50 red blood cells that

> flow

> >> from left to right at different speeds as they rotate. Currently I have

> >> about 15 movie clips on as many layers. Each MC contains 2 or 3 cells.

> I

> >> then layer all these to give the desired effect. How could this be more

> >> easily done? Thanks in advance.

> 

> 


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