Duplicating movie clip problem

1

Help Anybody,

I followed kirupa’s tutorial on duplicating movieclips http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/duplicate.htm

Now I have to fade the object I am duplicating in the timeline. I thought placing a object over it as a layer would work…but it doesn’t.

Can anybody help?

Thank you, Brian

2

Have a play around with the alpha value of the duplicated clip…in the tutorial this is done automatically using a random value:
this._alpha = random(100);

You’ll probably have to place the alpha code into the button handler and reference the previous duplicate. Something like this might work:

on (press) {
	i = i + 1;
	duplicateMovieClip(_root.circle, "circle" + i, i);
	_root["circle" + (i - 1)]._alpha = 10;
}
3

Im sorry, i forgot im not using a button, do I just write a frame script to make the the clip disappear?

4

Sure…you could address the mc directly using the _alpha or _visible properties, e.g.

mc_I_want_to_vanish._visible = “false”;

or

mc_I_want_to_vanish._alpha = xxx;

where xxx is a value between 0 and 100.

5

Your query is very vague though :x

6

don’t know why but neither works.
thanks anyways

7

i figured it out.

onClipEvent (load) {
scale = (random(100)+50);

this._x = 522;
this._y = random(50);
this._alpha = random(100);
this._xscale = scale;
this._yscale = scale;

}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

this._alpha-=.5;
if (this._alpha<=0){
}

}