AS'd movement, and repeat

1

Okay, here’s the deal…

I worked on Kirupa’s tut on how to make the action scripted movement, and it working well, until I wanted it to reappear and repeat…

I’m working on a Stick Shooting game (the basic first draft can be seen at http://www.stickslaughter.com/stickshooter.html) and have been attempting to make a stick, walk from one side of the stage to the other, and repeat. I can do that easily, but then i run into a problem…

When you shoot the stick, it goes into an animation where it dies and fades to 0 alpha. So when the stick reappears, he’s invisible, therefore making it pointless for him to repeat. Here’s the script I have on the stick right now:


onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	speed = 5;
	this._x += speed;
	if (this._x>=500) {
		this._x = 20;
		tellTarget (_root.target) {
		gotoAndPlay(1)
	}
}
}

So he moves until 500 on the stage, then repeats, and the tellTarget attempts to make the stick (instance name: target) go back to frame 1, where’s he walking visibly.

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance…
KoRRupt

2

tellTarget is deprecated. And why are you targeting _root.target? Isn’t your animation in the same clip that the actions are on? If that is so, shouldn’t it be

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	speed = 5;
	this._x += speed;
	if (this._x>=500) {
		this._x = 20;
		this.gotoAndPlay(1);
	}
}

(this.gotoAndPlay or _root.yourClip.gotoAndPlay(), etc are replacements for the deprecated tellTarget)

3

Thanks man…

Also, thanks for getting me up to date, been living in the past with telltarget for too long, everything works now!

Thanks again,
KoRRupt

4

No problem man. I learned with MX so I never knew tellTargeting (for the first week or so of AS learning that is) so when I saw it on the forum I was like… Huh? What is that?!..lol.

Funny how things work :slight_smile:

Glad you got everything working now :beam: