Kirupa's RPG tutorial... Player placement problems!

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Hey there.

As an introduction to Flash (and Object-Oriented Programming at a level more complicated than Multimedia Fusion, for that matter,) I’m working my way through kirupa’s RPG tutorial. I like it. It seems much cleaer-written and better-explained than the jailb*tch-derived tutorials I had been trying to learn from.

The page I’m currently stuck on is availible at: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/rpgprogramming6.htm

Note that I am using the default map and item array as copied directly from the tutorial, but my tiles are all 32x32 pixels, not 64x64. Also, the player object name has been changed from Guy to Player, and the player graphic image has been changed from guy_mc to Guy. Relevent variable names and values within the code have (as far as I can tell) been properly changed to reflect this.

Here’s my problem: The player always appears at coordinates 0,0 when I run the movie, instead of appearing relative to the location of the 1 in the itemMap1 array.

What follows is the entire ActionScript code from the first frame of my timeline. I think the problem is probabaly somewhere within this block of code. If someone who has done this RPG tutorial sucessfully could take a look at my code and see if they can spot the cause, I’d be much obliged.

Thanks in advance for your help. :slight_smile:

 //Global Game Variables
 
money = 0;
//Tile Code
mvWdth = 288;
mvHght = 288;
tileWdth = 32;
tileHght = 32;
 
tile0 = function () {
};
tile0.prototype.pos = 1;
tile0.prototype.barrier = false;
tile1 = function () {
};
tile1.prototype.pos = 2;
tile1.prototype.barrier = true;
tile2 = function () {
};
tile2.prototype.pos = 3;
tile2.prototype.barrier = true;
 
map1 = [[2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2], 
[2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2],
[2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2],
[2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2],
[1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2],
[1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]];
 
itemMap1 = [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 
	[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]];
 
function MapMaker(map) {
_root.attachMovie("blank", "tiler", d++);
var mapWdth = map[0].length;
var mapHght = map.length;
 
 
for (var i = 0; i<MAPHGHT; p i++) {<> 
 
for (var j = 0; j<MAPWDTH; p j++) {<> var name = "tile_"+j+"_"+i;
_root[name] = new _root["tile"+map*[j]]();
_root.tiler.attachMovie("TileSet1", name, i*100+j*2);
_root.tiler[name]._x = (j*_root.tileWdth);
_root.tiler[name]._y = (i*_root.tileHght);
_root.tiler[name].gotoAndStop(_root[name].pos);
}
}
}
 
 
 
function placeItems (map) { 
//_root.attachMovie("blank", "items", this.getNextHighestDepth()); 
_root.attachMovie("blank", "items", this.getNextHighestDepth()); 
var mapWdth = map[0].length; 
var mapHght = map.length; 
for (var i = 0; i < mapHght; i++) { 
for (var j = 0; j < mapWdth; j++) { 
switch (map*[j]){ 
case 1 : 
_root.items.attachMovie("Player","Guy", d++); 
_root.items.guy_mc._x = (j*_root.tileWdth * j); 
_root.items.guy_mc._y = (i*_root.tileHght * i); 
} 
} 
} 
} 
 
 
 
MapMaker(map1);
placeItems(itemMap1);