RE: FLASH: Branden Halls Sparks demo...

[Branden Hall]

No problem... :-)

Heres the deal... M-Controller is what is known as a controller MC...

controller MCs have to be two frames long because the must repeat forever as

well as allow the stage to update after each modification of an MCs

properties. (Two things that actionscript LOOP WHILE does not do) Each spark

has its own controller, and hence is animated independantly depending on the

random x,y,z, and fade speeds it was given when it was first duplicated.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software



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Subject: FLASH: Branden Halls Sparks demo...




First off, Branden, thanks a ton for making this cool little demo available

(and the other inifinite amount of info you've given out on this list!

You're

a hero.)


I've been spending some time dissecting Branden's Sparks demo to help me

figure out actionscript.  I'm a coder (C,Perl,Lingo,CF...)/artist and have

been picking up flash over the last month or so on a clients request.


I'm having a few questions I'm hoping Branden or someone else can answer

for me...


I understand how the m-draggie/b-makespark thing works, following the cursor

and duplicating/initializing the m-flyspark MC.  From there, I can't figure

out where M-controller comes into play.  I can tell from the scripting in

M-controller that it is what advances the animation, so it seems to me that

M-controller is part of each `spark' - am I right?  If not, how is

M-controller called or executed for each spark?  That and why are there two

frames in M-controller?


Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.  Branden, thanks again for

your generosity.


Justin



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