I’m new at this stuff so bear with me. When my avatar bug makes contact with another type of bug, he eats it. Both bugs are movie clips; when the avatar gets into the collision detect zone of the edible bug, it triggers a quick animation in the “edible” bug: he becomes a blur for one frame then disappears (as though eaten).
The problem is the sound effect - a quick “whoosh”. It needs to play once then stop. What happens now is that it’s triggered repeatedly - a problem if the avatar passes over the edible bug slowly. If the avatar later passes over the spot where the edible bug was, the sound is triggered multiple times again. So I need the sound to play only once, then stop. There will be several copies of the edible bug’s movie clip that need to behave the same way, so once the sound stops playing it needs to be available again for the next collision.
Here’s what it looks like now:
private var sfx_edible:Sound = new eat();
function detectCollision(myevent:Event):void {
if (avatar_mc.hitTestPoint(edible_a.x, edible_a.y, false)==true) {
this.edible_a.nextFrame();
sfx_edible.play();
}
Any ideas?
