Hello all, new on this forum and it looks great, props to Kirupa for all the nice information provided to us fledgling flash users. I have a question in how to make a scrolling background with boundaries controlled by a joystick.
THINK: flying a helicopter from a cockpit view. cockpit moves in coordination with the joystick and so does the background.
I have a joystick that controls one movie clip “dune” left and right, it also controls the background clip “BG” scrollling left, right, up and down.
my problem/question is how to make the BG stop scrolling when “dune” hits the border of it. It probably is a simple solution, but I am new to actionscript and have “butchered” this code from a scrolling starfield flash movie. right now my background keep scrolling out of view.
Would HitTest work?
here is my code, dont mind the extra junk, and any help is greatly appreciated:
// initialize variables and properties
initx = dune._x;
inity = dune._y;
//
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
with (dune) {
// move DUNE based on the positions of the joy
_rotation += (joy._x-joy.initx)/15;
if (_rotation>6) {
_rotation=6;
}
if (_rotation<-6) {
_rotation=-6;
}
}
with (BG) {
// move BG based on the positions of the joy
_x -= (joy._x-joy.initx)/15;
_y += (joy._y-joy.inity)/2;
//_rotation += (joy._x-joy.initx)/15;
//if (_rotation>6) {
// _rotation=6;
//}
//if (_rotation<-6) {
// _rotation=-6;
// loop the bg
//if (_x>initx+800) {
// _x = initx;
//}
//if (_x<initx) {
// _x = initx+220;
//}
//if (_y>inity+400) {
// _y = inity;
//}
//if (_y<inity) {
// _y = inity+400;
//}
}
};
Greg aka basefetish…
