Re: FLASH: puzzle?

[Andries]

>I could not find the game. The interface was very confusing to me; I kept

>clicking on what looked like "summer greetings" and it kept opening successive

>windows but no game.  Is there a direct URL for the swf you're talking about?

>

>Not sure what you're talking about, but it sounds as if they use a movie clip

>to keep score.  See the scoring tutorial at Flash Central. For each right

>answer, the scoring movie clip advances one frame.  When they reach the magic

>number (three problems solved, in this case), the movie clip has a frame action

>that TellTargets the "winning" animation.  Or that animation could just kick in

>as part of the scoring movie clip when it advances the correct number of

>frames.

>

>

>

>Marc Hoffman

>

>

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

>Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

>in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.



Hi Marc


I don't understand why you can't see it and I can, and i can't find the

direct URL either. I think that you're right about the scoring movie clip. 

Yesterday I tried to make my own puzzle using four squares. On each of the

squares there is a invisible button that tells a movie clip to advance one

frame so that the image you see changes. On each of the keyframes of that

movie clip i have tell target commands that tell a differend movie clip to

go forwards or backwards. There are three possible outcome's let's say red,

green and yellow. When you switch from red to green the action is: "go to

next frame"

when you switch from green to yellow again: "go to next frame" When you

switch from yellow to red I say: "go to previous frame" twice. So that the

position of the timeline of the scoring clip is where it was. 

The movie clip contains 9 frames. When you start with one of the squares

turned red and three of them turned yellow. you let the scoring clip start

at frame 7. turn the red one around twice and you get: go to next frame, go

to next frame (+1+1). The clip is now in frame 9. In frame 9 you can place a

animation. When you turn all the yellow squares around you get: -2-2-2.

You're now in frame one. Again you can place a animation in frame one. Whe

you want the four squares to be green you get: +1 -2+1 -2+1 -2+1 = 5 In

frame 5 there's the third animation.

there is a problem though: you can only get in frame 1 by turning them all

red and you only can get in frame 9 by turning them all yellow, but it's not

impossible to get in frame 5 without having the right answer: two reds and

two yellows are also together 5 (7 -2). I think i have to work with larger

numbers to avoid this problem. I'm not quite sure what the solution is but I

will get there, I think.


Thank you,


Andries



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