FLASH: Help! My game gun is shooting blanks...

[John Petroshius]

Hello folks


(excuse me if I've written too much, I just wanted to explain myself as

fully as possible :)


I'm putting a duck hunter game together (it's my client's idea; we wanted to

do a Kafka-esque cockroach game)...and this is my first try at Actionscript

(I started with FLASH 4 and now I'm stuck using the older scripting for the

duration of this project)...I've got a nice gunsight, and set it up ok to

lock to my cursor...so far so good...


and I have a Duck MC, which is comprised of two inner MC's...


there's a short DuckFlap MC on frame 1 of the enclosing Duck MC with my duck

flapping away contentedly...and a second movie clip, DuckDie sitting on

frame 2 of the larger Duck MC...


I have an Actions layer and a Stop action placed on frame 1 of that layer in

the Duck MC...so my DuckFlap MC continues to flap away until he's shot at...


but when I set my button instance in my gunsight-cursor MC to target and

play the DuckDie MC when the cursor clicks on the Duck MC, I don't get the

DuckDie MC to play...? which is driving me daffy (duck)...I hope I'm just

missing something real simple...


maybe I should include some of my code for the cursor-button instance:


for my cursor I have a Movie Clip and inside it on frame 1 of an Actions

layer I have my cursor/lockcenter code stuff...then on frame 2 of the

Actions layer I have a Stop action...on frame 1 of my Graphics layer I have

an empty frame, and on frame 2 of the Graphics layer I have my button

(inside the button itself there's an Up state, a Down state with a gun sound

attached, and no Over or Hit state)...


...the code for the button instance itself is basically like:


On (Release)

  If (GetProperty("",_droptarget) eq "/Duck MC instance name")

    Begin Tell Target ("/Duck MC instance name")

      Play

    End Tell Target

  End If

End On


I had been told that by targeting the over-all MC and telling it to Play, it

would get the playback head off the Stop on frame 1 of the larger Duck MC

and that would automatically take it to frame 2 and that would start the

DuckDie MC...inside that MC there is an interior Stop action, so it only

will play once, and the whole clip should then die...I've tried targeting

the inner clip by saying


Begin Tell Target("/Duck MC instance name/DuckDie instance name")


and several permutations with these kinds of substitutions...but no go...

any sugessstions out there where the gurus live?  thanks a lot in advance

for any help or clues...



Addendum:


all this stuff seems to work ok if I don't use MC's...I mean, if I take the

frame animations that are included in the MC's, and just spread them out in

a linear fashion in the one big MC and just use a go to frame 1 at the end

of the DuckFlap sequence, and a label at the beginning of the DuckDie

sqeuence, then I can target everything successfully from actions I include

in my cursor-gunsight...for several reasons though, I would REALLY like to

be able to just say, "when I click my gunsight on this MC, please go inside

this big MC and play some littler MC that's sitting on one of the interior

frames of the big MC"...


thanks again for any thoughts on the subject...


John Petroshius

johnprairiestudio [dot] com

847-675-5790



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