Hittest and Gotoandplay

programming flash
1

Hello all,
For starters if anyone wants to see the fla i will post it,
Ok, i did the tutorial on firing (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/fire.htm)
and i wanted to put in an enemy, that would play when hit,
basiccly i just quickly drew a rectangle and made it a movieclip,
i called it enemy, and put its instance name as enemy aswell,
( the bullets instance name is bullets), then i went into the enemy movieclip and made the first frame stop, and second playing the dying animation, then stopping on the fifth with nothing there. i put this code on the enemy movieclip but it wont work, as i am new to AS i dont really know what is wrong Please help!

onClipEvent(load){
if (_root.enemy, hittest(_root.bullets)) {
_root.enemy = gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

thanks alot,
Ben (flashy22)

2

[color=green]wrong syntax…[/color]


onClipEvent(load){ 
if (_root.enemy[color=red].[/color]hit[color=red]T[/color]est(_root.bullets)) {
	 _root.enemy[color=red].[/color]gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
3

No that didnt work, and i accidently, got it wrong, its instance is bullet, ill post the .fla if you need to see it,
please help,
Ben (flashy22)

4

onClipEvent (load) is executed only when your mc loads for the first time.
my guess is that you’d want and
onClipEvent(enterFrame)

5

No unfortunalty that didnt work either!
thanks in advance,
Ben (flashy22)

6

did you try just putting the if statement inside the movie clip?

7

// root frame 5

if (_root.enemy.hitTest(_root.bullets)) {
_root.enemy.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
_root.gotoAndPlay(4);