Questions regarding the AS in making electricity

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ok well i’ve jsut downloaded eilsoes electricity thing which is here:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9406
and i’m really confused of all the action scripting and stuff. I was planning on creating somethin similar except without the sliding bar, just the electricity; the domes don’t even have to move.

So which AS would be useful? i read through the AS he put in but i didnt’ understand what ‘Math.Floor’ was…
can someone explain that?

I also saw the stuff ‘home1x’ ‘home1y’. What are the differences between these and ‘point1x’ and ‘point1y’? and what exactly are they…???

I think i can sorta make out the rest but i’m not quite sure thats it for now thx for your help

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Math.floor - rounds a number down if it is a decimal.

home1x
home1y

X and Y position of the home1 point.

Same goes with all the other things that say x and y. This is comprised by a bunch of points with lines connected to them.

These points move randomly around.

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so which is the home1 point? is it the dome?
another question just came up to me…
what does the ‘int’ mean?
and _X and _Y?

thx

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locate what home1point is used for in the script and find the object that has that instance name.

int is the old method of Math.round() (obviously rounds a number).

_x and _y are one of the most basic things in actionscript. It is the X and Y coords… that is definitely something you need to know to understand this script (as well as the math things).

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o whoops, you wouldn’t happen to know a site or tutoriuals which explain the basics would you?

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The tutorials that come with Flash.

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ah ok i’ve read through action script dictionary and it cleared up some stuff, but it doesn’t seem to tell me why in his AS, it reads:

Point1x…
Point1y…

and then it jumps to

point12X…
point12Y…

can you explain this plz thanks

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Those are variables.

Look where those variables are used in the script.

They are used to determine the x and y point of where the line will be drawn too.

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this is confusing i think i may get on with somethin simpler :beam:

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Yeah, this is a bit advanced for what you know so far :-\

Good luck finding another tutorial.

Did you search Flashkit?

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*Originally posted by blah-de-blah *
**this is confusing i think i may get on with somethin simpler :beam: **
Wise move, my friend. Wise move… :slight_smile:

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nah i don’t like flashkit that much i find it real confusing because of the layout…it annoys me :*(