Re: FLASH: URGENT: Still working on collision

[Gregg Caines]

Ahh...Flash 5....well scrap everything I said then.

That 'hittest' method sounds like it might make

things a bit easier.


I'll be coming out of the cave one of these days...


;)


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> Howdy,

> I'm still trying to make this collision thing happen. I am working in

Flash

> 5 and using the HitTest

> method. However, I am confused on how to reference my objects.

>

> Here's the basic setup:

> Two boats travel across the screen in the background.  Standing on the

dock

> the player has to throw

> crabs into the back of the boats(using a square for the hit area).

>

> The crabs are set up like this:

> Crab: instance name crab(movie clip:onstage)

> >Crab (motion clip:library)

>

> Then there are two instances of the boat movie clip: leftboat and

rightboat

> (these move via ActionScript)

> Leftboat (instance)

> >Boat (movieclip)

> >Boattarget(movie clip on boat timeline/instance name: tbox)

>

> So basically, do I refernce the instances or the symbols themselves? And

> where do I put the code;

> in the main timeline, the symbols, or the instances?

>

> Thanks,

> George Gleissner

> Web Production Specialist

> Association of Legal Administrators

> 847.247.5572

>

ggleissneralanet [dot] org

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