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Subject: RE: FLASH: URGENT: Still working on collision
From: George Gleissner
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:34:31 GMT

Do I need to code the collision script around the instances or the symbols?




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From: Gregg Caines [gcatneometrixsystems [dot] com (mailto:gcatneometrixsystems [dot] com)]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:10 AM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: URGENT: Still working on collision


Ahh...Flash 5....well scrap everything I said then.
That 'hittest' method sounds like it might make
things a bit easier.

I'll be coming out of the cave one of these days...

;)

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Gregg Caines
n e o m e t r i x systems inc.
http://www.neometrixsystems.com
gcainesatneometrixsystems [dot] com


> Howdy,
> I'm still trying to make this collision thing happen. I am working in
Flash
> 5 and using the HitTest
> method. However, I am confused on how to reference my objects.
>
> Here's the basic setup:
> Two boats travel across the screen in the background. Standing on the
dock
> the player has to throw
> crabs into the back of the boats(using a square for the hit area).
>
> The crabs are set up like this:
> Crab: instance name crab(movie clip:onstage)
> >Crab (motion clip:library)
>
> Then there are two instances of the boat movie clip: leftboat and
rightboat
> (these move via ActionScript)
> Leftboat (instance)
> >Boat (movieclip)
> >Boattarget(movie clip on boat timeline/instance name: tbox)
>
> So basically, do I refernce the instances or the symbols themselves? And
> where do I put the code;
> in the main timeline, the symbols, or the instances?
>
> Thanks,
> George Gleissner
> Web Production Specialist
> Association of Legal Administrators
> 847.247.5572
> ggleissneratalanet [dot] org



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