Duplicate mc Script problems

1

Ok… I tried to put the following script into my mc…

[AS]onClipEvent (load) {
amount = 10;
while (amount>0) {
duplicateMovieClip(_root.flower, “mc”+i, i);
setProperty(“mc”+i, _x, random(275));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _y, random(275));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _alpha, random(275));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _xscale, random(50));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _yscale, random(50));
i++;
amount–;
}
}
[/AS]

When I try to run it gives me this message:

  A script in this movie is causing flash player to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive.Do you want to abort the script?

… Is it something in my script how could I fix this?? I’ve attached the file.

2

is it ON flower? if so, when duplicating it, that script will remain and be run on all duplicates thereby creating an infinite loop.

on a side note, i is never changed in that script which mean the duplicate will only be made once… well more than once but since i stays the same each new duplicate will replace the prior

3

Ok it’s on that mc…but you totally lost me…I still don’t understand what I’m supposed to change…

4

You can’t place it on the image itself, because when it’s duplicated, it will have the same code on it I think and therefore every duplicated movieclip will dyuplicate itself again 10 times. And each of those will duplicate themselves too. And so on. So I suggest you code in the timeline.

5

Well I put my current code in the main timeline and that doesn’t do anything…could you give me and example of what your talking about?

This is the current script I have in the timeline…(I changed the instance names…)

[AS]
amount = 10;
while (amount>0) {
duplicateMovieClip(_root.target_mc, “target_mc”+i, i);
setProperty(“mc”+i, _x, random(275));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _y, random(275));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _alpha, random(275));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _xscale, random(50));
setProperty(“mc”+i, _yscale, random(50));
i++;
amount–;
}
[/AS]

…

6

On the timeline in which flower is in …


amount = 10;
for(var i=0;i<=amount;i++){
                mc = flower.duplicateMovieClip("mc"+i, i);
                mc._x = Math.floor(Math.random()*(275+1))
                mc._y = Math.floor(Math.random()*(275+1))
                mc._alpha = Math.floor(Math.random()*(275+1))
                mc._xscale = Math.floor(Math.random()*(50+1))
                mc._yscale = Math.floor(Math.random()*(50+1))
// Good like this, sen ? ;-)
}

That should do it :slight_smile:

7

whoa…wierd…I stick that in…and well look at the attached screen shot…very wierd…I really don’t understand…

Everything looks warped…or something…I’m guess it has something to do with the MathRandom…

8

yeah. Well it IS random :wink:

9

Ok but what would I do just to have non-skewed targets of different sizes duplicating at different locations and depths?

10

hello??

11 
amount = 10;
for (var i = 0; i<=amount; i++) {
	mc = flower.duplicateMovieClip("mc"+i, i);
	mc._x = Math.floor(Math.random()*(275+1));
	mc._y = Math.floor(Math.random()*(275+1));
	mc._alpha = Math.floor(Math.random()*(275+1));
	mc._xscale = mc._yscale=Math.floor(Math.random()*(50+1));
}
12

thanks claudio…that one seems to work the best so far… :slight_smile:

13

welcome :slight_smile: