# Questions regarding the AS in making electricity
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 24, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582 "2002-11-24T05:42:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@blah\_de\_blah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blah_de_blah)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/1 "2002-11-24T05:42:24Z")
ok well i’ve jsut downloaded eilsoes electricity thing which is here:
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9406](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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/2 "2002-11-24T05:46:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/3 "2002-11-24T05:52:38Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/4 "2002-11-24T05:58:25Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/5 "2002-11-24T06:01:28Z")
o whoops, you wouldn’t happen to know a site or tutoriuals which explain the basics would you?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/6 "2002-11-24T06:07:49Z")
The tutorials that come with Flash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/7 "2002-11-24T06:26:36Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/8 "2002-11-24T06:31:22Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/9 "2002-11-24T06:57:47Z")
this is confusing i think i may get on with somethin simpler :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/10 "2002-11-24T07:01:11Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/11 "2002-11-25T12:39:07Z")
> \*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… 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/questions-regarding-the-as-in-making-electricity/8582/12 "2002-11-25T13:06:55Z")
nah i don’t like flashkit that much i find it real confusing because of the layout…it annoys me :\*(