RE: FLASH: Tell Target Problem

[Paul Willoughby]

Hi Paul


I think you were having problems because the bullet was looping around it's

first few frames waiting for something to happen. I think if it got caught

mid-loop, it didn't really work i.e. you're targeting a labelled frame in

the baddy correctly from the 'bullet' clip, but at the same time the clip is

hitting the frame telling it to go to and play 1. I managed to get it

working by just having a stop action at the beginning of the baddy clip,

then having frame 2 labelled 'hit' and targeting that frame when a hit

occurs.

Another thing that might be causing probs is the way all the code is mixed

into graphics holding keyframes. While that shouldn't cause a problem in

itself, you might find it easier to see what's going wrong if you put all

the actions on a separate layer and keep everything as simple as possible.

It looked to me you had more keyframes than strictly neccesary.

Anyways, let me know if you'd like me to email the .fla offlist with my

amendments...the hit works every time!


hth


Paul


-----Original Message-----

From: Paul Steven [

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Sent: 18 September 2000 13:56

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Subject: FLASH: Tell Target Problem



Hi there


I am having real problems trying to discover why my Flash movie is not doing

what I expect it to do.


I am making a simple game (asteroids-ish) where a spaceship shoots bullets

at enemy ships.


I have a collision detection routine which appears to be working fine - when

a collision is detected I have a tell target to the enemy ship, which

basically says goto a label and play the movieclip. I have put a test

variable inside the collision detected bit of code and it is being set

correctly every time.


The problem seems to be that it is calling the tell target but the target

movie clip is not finishing playing the 3 frames that it is required to

play. On the third frame I have a remove movie clip action. The problem is

intermittent - i.e sometimes it will remove it, sometimes it won't. If I put

the remove movie clip on the frame of the label the tell target calls, it

works every time. I hope I am making some sense here.


If anyone could have a look and see if they can identify the problem, it

would be greatly appreciated.


http://www.clubinlondon.co.uk/Shoot.html


Thanks


Paul



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