# MovieClip interaction - help please
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 1, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985 "2004-08-01T19:29:57Z")
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### Author:  [@ben\_is\_sparky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ben_is_sparky)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985/1 "2004-08-01T19:29:57Z")
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
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### Author:  [@attuned](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/attuned)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985/2 "2004-08-01T21:10:27Z")
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=flash+mx+collision+hittest+tutorial](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=flash+mx+collision+hittest+tutorial)
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### Author:  [@Goth\_Santa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Goth_Santa)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985/3 "2004-08-01T23:06:56Z")
> [@ben\_is\_sparky](#):
>
> 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
The best way is probably good ol’-fashioned **hittest** :
```auto
// 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.
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### Author:  [@ben\_is\_sparky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ben_is_sparky)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985/4 "2004-08-02T07:37:37Z")
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
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### Author:  [@NovemberRain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NovemberRain)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985/5 "2004-08-02T08:21:18Z")
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:
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### Author:  [@ben\_is\_sparky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ben_is_sparky)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-interaction-help-please/117985/6 "2004-08-02T09:30:55Z")
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