Can AS help me recreate animations? (urgent!) [renamed]

programming flash
1

Hi all, I’m doing a school project, a website.
I am doing it in flash, because

  1. I can do reasonable graphics and animation… and
  2. It’s either that or illuminatus opus (If you don’t know what that is, don’t bother wasting your time finding out, it’s a cheap program built on flash, comparable to powerpoint with the ability of buttons with rollover effects)

Anyway, this which is not my choice, is themed around Macbeth, and I am having problems with my buttons.the problem is: (not well explained)
on (release) {
//Now I want the sword to fly off the screen, dripping blood along the way, then reappearing at the bottom of the list of buttons by rotating in, and all the other swords to rotate up to go in the exact same place of the last one.

The problem here, I don’t have time to do all 25+ animations separately, surely AS can help?

Hope i’ve explained it well enough, thanks all…

I couldn’t attach the .fla, it’s too big, how do i put it on a separate server and link it here? or email me at ignusb@gmail.com and I will send it to you

2

i guess you can use duplicateMovieClip(); search the flash help to find out how it works

3

err… thanks, but I still don’t get it, each button has to be a separate movie clip? i don’t get how it works…

4

it should be something like this:


for(i=0; i<25; i++){
   sword.duplicateMovieClip("sword"+i, i);
}

then give the movieclip sword (on the stage) the right actions, these will be duplicated too. maybe you can mail me the .fla at thomas@zeal-music.com