FLASH: shaking an instance

[Ben Houghton]

hi there


i'm currently trying to create a little script that can be applied to

multiple layers of a movie which shakes the instance found in that

particular layer (or ideally on script which shakes all the instances

together).


unfortunately i am not doing very well :-(


within my main 30 frame looped movie i have created a simple rectangle which

is a movie clip called Shake instance name Shake, which contains two frames

each containing the frame scripts as follows


Set Variable: "horiz" = "GetProperty(../Shake,_x)"

Set Property ("../Shake", X Position) = "horiz+15"


and in the second frame


Set Variable: "horiz" = "GetProperty(../Shake,_x)"

Set Property ("../Shake", X Position) = "horiz-15"


I know the targeting is OK because when I take out the horiz from the set

property the thing moves.


I guess it's something to do with my syntax but what?


Also it seams far too slow - I want it to blur really - is this achievable

or do I need to think again?


And finally :-) how would I easily apply this to a movie which contains lots

of different things in different layers all that I want to shake - do I need

to increment a name variable (e.g. target Shake1, Shake 2 etc.) but this

seams clumsy - is there a better way?


Thanks in advance!


Ben Houghton

bena-eye [dot] com

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