Hi. I’m teaching myself flash, and to that end I’m making a simple top-down shooting game. My (current) problem is this:
All of the basic enemies and allies are currently represented by a simple MovieClip consisting of a circle (the ‘body’, also used for hit detection) and a named Weapon instance. ‘Weapon’ is a class linked to another simple MovieClip. The Weapon class serves as an abstract base class for a variety of ‘real’ weapons (Rifle, Laser, etc), each of which has a matching ActionScript (3) file and MovieClip. All the weapon MovieClips are visually unique.
Ok, with me so far? Well, I want my little soldiers to be able to change weapon, so I’ve created a function “swapWeapon(newWeapon:Weapon)”. This sets the soldier’s Weapon instance to the ‘newWeapon’ variable. This is where it gets confusing: the functions and code of the new weapon (eg, bullet speed and accuracy) all transfer correctly, but the appearance remains the same (the default ‘Weapon’ MovieClip).
So what am I missing? My guess would be it’s to do with the fact that I’m swapping a MovieClip instance for different (sub-) class of MovieClip. But that’s as far as my knowledge of flash takes me 
So yeah, any help would be great, and thanks in advance 
