# Help with target paths?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-target-paths/35229
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 11, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-target-paths/35229 "2003-11-11T20:16:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Coaldiamond](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Coaldiamond)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-target-paths/35229/1 "2003-11-11T20:16:13Z")
Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I’m having with writing correct target paths. I wrote a function that rotates a mc to point at the mouse, but I would like to change it so that the mc points towards another mc after a collision.
I imagine that the script would look something like this:
```
if (this.hitTest(someDuplicate)){
setProperty (this, targetName, someDuplicate._name)}
this.targetx = _root."targetName"._x
this.targety = _root."targetName"._y
```
[//this.targetx](https://this.targetx),y are then used to calculate the rotation.
The problem I have is that all of the movieclips in my movie are duplicates with the names “newCircle”+i or “newRipple”+i, and so I don’t know how to properly refer to the duplicate or how to code this.
Does anyone know how to help?
Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-target-paths/35229/2 "2003-11-12T00:31:35Z")
Welcome, Coaldiamond. =)
Check this out: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12082](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12082).