I having more problems with the attachmovie feature.
Anyway, I want to duplicate a movieclip several times and then give them a motion guide(is this possible?). I can do the attaching part, im just stuck with actually making it move
If not how would you go about duplicating something and then setting it off in motion? I would just keep changing there x/y cords but its not a straight path
With this I would also need to start the duplicated clip a bit behind the previous movieclip so that it looks like one is following the other.
How do you mean, allow something to follow the motion guide and then track its _x/_y?
Not a bad idea, but I still have a porblem of staggering the others
you could store the _x and _y of the guided invisible movieclip and use it after a delay so the movieclip would apear staggered like a tail. if you need multiple clips then you can use a queue type array where like
in instance 1 a[x1] = _x
in instance 2 a[x2] = a[x1], a[x1] = _x
in instance 3 a[x3] = a[x2], a[x2] = a[x1], a[x1] = _x
and so on till n
This is created in a very similar way to the one described by AmitGeorge http://www.gifsrus.com/testfile/motionpaththing.swf
i first dragged an mc from the library and motion with guide storing _x,_y in an Array. I`ve left the trace i used so you can see and obviously the surplus frames could be deleted.
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Enough said
A great example with some added scaling
Learnt a few things from the code and can now see how its working
Prior to your reply I gave up in the end with motion guides and moved over to the dark side…trigonometry
I got it working using trig as well, but it will only move in a circular fashion with some editing im sure I could change the shape that it takes but would require some more sketches…
thx amitgeorge for the ideas and stringy, especially for takin the time to make the fla
