Re: FLASH: Site Check Mahjong Game

[Laura Mollett]

> Very impressive! I am curious to hear about how you wrote the script to

> place the tiles randomly on the stage, particularly in respect to the

> different levels of tiles.

>

> Nice Work!

> -Eric-


Thanks! We-ell... first it takes all the tiles and counts them down, setting

each instance to "false" (not done, so it won't get the same tile later).

Then it goes through and sets a location (but doesn't equate a tile with

that location). So every spot on the board has a position. Then it picks up

a random tile, puts it in the first position, and sets done to "true" so it

can't pick that tile up again. At that point, each tile is duplicated and

actually placed in the spot on the board where it belongs. The spots are

filled in order, assigned by x/y coordinate (some tricky math to get the

"offset" tiles in just the right place) and by depth. That's the reason why

they're duplicated movie clips - so we could assign depth. The visibility of

the original clip is set to false and the duplicate is moved - that was the

trick to get them to line up properly :) The 3d effect is just a matter of

offsetting the x/y coordinates on the tiles by the right amount, having the

script loop through layer by layer rather than the whole board at once. So,

really it chooses the tiles randomly, but places them in order. Hope that

answers your question. Let me know if it doesn't and I'll try again - I'm

learning that people like Marc and Chrissy and Branden and Dorian (and John,

when he's back :) have a special gift for being able to *explain* how to do

things as well as knowing how.


Also thanks again to everyone else who responded. We love the idea of a

"floating window" for the hints button including information on which tiles

match and are planning on including that - thanks Michael! Also really like

the idea of a wind chimes sound and are planning on adding that somewhere

(and changing the annoying one :) thanks to Alan, and fixing it so the

button "unselects" itself as Jason suggested. The "you lose" code will go in

as soon as we figure out how to do it :) - it seems kind of complicated to

us to have a continual loop to know how many matches are left on the board

and how many of those are free. We think we know how, but are afraid it'll

be processor intensive :(. Oh yes and will add the half moons as well as the

quarter moons to things that are supposed to match regardless of direction -

thanks Hal! and have a few other bugs and improvements that have come up to

add also (nothing is ever really done, is it? ;)


Laura


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