# Help, Multiple movie clips for main character

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**Created:** [June 25, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-multiple-movie-clips-for-main-character/114205 "2004-06-25T20:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hamsterhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a87d85/32.png) [@Hamsterhead](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hamsterhead)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-multiple-movie-clips-for-main-character/114205/1 "2004-06-25T20:56:00Z")

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before I pose this little problem, I am a complete flash beginner, and I’ve never really made a complete flash movie before,

anyway, I want to make an experimental game to show off what I do know, unfortunately, I’m missing some of the required knowledge.

ok, so the problem,

the main character will be movable, and he has a sword. The sword will have actionscript applied to it to give it a swooshy effect (I know my language is technical :p)

thing is, by the time I have the sword, and the action script, that is 3 movie-clips, not counting the ones used for the effect,

here’s the sword [rob.liquidelephant.co.uk/sword.html](http://rob.liquidelephant.co.uk/sword.html) (need the latest flash player)

now to make the effect I needed to make the blade and hilt as seperate movie-clips to direct the API to,

\*\* -is there a way to define specific points on a movie clip so that you can control them/direct things to it without having more than one movie clip, and also compensating for rotation etc?.  
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