MovieClip interaction - help please

1

Sorry, this is probably very easy but:

How can I make it so that when one movieclip touches or goes near (preferable) another, it will advance to the next frame of the movieclip.

This is probably easier to explain if I say what I’m trying to do.

Spaceship flies around (mc) when it his an asteroid (another mc), the asteroid explodes

Thanks, Ben

2

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=flash+mx+collision+hittest+tutorial

3

The best way is probably good ol’-fashioned hittest:


 // put this in the spaceship's code
 if (hitTest(_root.asteroid) == true) {
 	tellTarget (asteroid) {
 		  gotoAndPlay (first frame of explosion animation);
 	}
 }

The only thing to watch out for is to make sure you get the relative location of the objects right, i.e. _root.asteroid, or whatever. Hope this helps.

4

I tried this code and it said id needed an onClipEvent thing. I looked around the tutorials and forums and put one in but it still doesn’t work.

Could it be because I have other code attatched to the spaceship (to control it)?

Here is my .fla

Thanks
Ben

5

Hi,
I’ve made some little correction on the script and upload it again for you. You didn’t add quotes for the passing framelaber ie… gotoAndPlay (exploid);

Some other modificitons also made. check out
Try try until you reach that is the Mantra. :battery:

6

Thank you very much
Thanks and Thank you again

I could go on all day but I won’t because i need to look at this