# Random Points/Motion Experiment **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [February 9, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125 "2003-02-09T09:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lostinbeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/db5fbb/32.png) [@lostinbeta](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lostinbeta)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/1 "2003-02-09T09:14:42Z")
Hello everyone, Of course the best ideas come at 4am… 😛 Ok, so the idea of this isn’t original or anything, but I actually wasn’t planning on doing this. I started out doing one thing with random points, but then I went completely off track and ended up with this. I thought it was pretty cool in the end so I kept it 🙂 Let me know what you think… [VIEW RANDOM POINTS/MOTION EXPERIMENT](http://www.8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/experimental/traceClips.html) Instructions: Input a number from 1-99 in the textbox in the upper right then click the submit button to see the clips updated. You can toggle the quality with the button in the lower left corner, this was because it runs better on low quality, especially with a lot of clips, but with a few clips you can use high quality. That is all there is to it. The textbox that follow each point is the label of the clip that tells you which point # that is. PS: The random motion script (and all the AS in it in fact) is all mine, I did not use sbeeners tutorial on random motion. [edit]Download the .fla file [HERE!](http://www.kirupaforum.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=110066) [/edit] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/2 "2003-02-09T14:01:35Z")
Wow lost! That is impressive =) This is one of the best animations I have seen using AS! Cheers! Kirupa :ub: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/3 "2003-02-09T15:06:53Z")
that was GREAT!!! well, 99 things was crappy cause it was a big jumble of gunk, BUT everything else rocked. awesome work. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/4 "2003-02-09T15:08:21Z")
_is testing random numbers_ 24 and 39 are sweet. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/5 "2003-02-09T15:10:02Z")
haahahahahahah. 2 rules! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/6 "2003-02-09T15:28:46Z")
nice! cool effecto! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/7 "2003-02-09T16:21:54Z")
Great work man, that’s pretty fun to mess around with! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/8 "2003-02-09T17:55:35Z")
GOod Stuff man… Did you use the drawing API to redraw all the lines and then fill it in… And then use points as the movieClips to tell where the lines all go to? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/9 "2003-02-09T19:10:46Z")
WOW! Thanks guys, I definitely did expect to get such good reviews. I was expecting some “eh, not that great, but good job” things. Playa: Yeah, I use the drawing API to redraw the lines to each of the clips. The points are actually dynmically created empty movie clips, but it was no fun when you couldn’t see nothing, so I used attachMovie() to attach the block for the points and inside that clip I have the textbox that has the label. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/10 "2003-02-10T04:59:33Z")
:love: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/11 "2003-02-10T05:02:18Z")
? dam… insomnia is killing me. I have to wake up in 9 hours to go to the gym, and that is going to kill me because I have been getting 11 hours of sleep every night… :hair: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/12 "2003-02-10T05:05:28Z")
LOL, I get on average about 3 hours of sleep a night (not straight through), insomnia just makes me talk crazy talk, that is about all it does to me 🙂 I did this experiment at like 3:45am, finished at like 4am, and posted it here around 4:15am :beam: Sleep = BAD! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/13 "2003-02-10T09:00:06Z")
eh, not that great, but good job :trout: No, seriously, that’s nice. Very Joshua Davis-esque 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/14 "2003-02-10T09:02:53Z")
Yeah, I don’t think it is that great either, but for steering way off the path of my original idea and ending up with something else that actually worked in the middle of the night after a while of no sleep… I think I can be proud enough to call it good 🙂 Joshua Davis-esque :!: Wow… I didn’t think it fell in that realm of good 😉 :beam: 😛 You should see my source code… :!: It is horrid! ;( I am embarrassed to post it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/15 "2003-02-10T09:21:33Z")
REally Nice 🙂 Well., I guess u should be off track more often …lol… u create better stuff that way … REALLY GOOD ONE man … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/16 "2003-02-10T11:50:18Z")
very nice =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/17 "2003-02-10T18:28:25Z")
Thanks guys 🙂 Ok, I decided to take an attempt at optimizing my code today. Check the attachment for the source file. Don’t laugh at me… I tried :trout: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/18 "2003-02-10T23:02:39Z")
I don’t know if this is the same code as posted in the first post, but it’s pretty good 🙂 Nice little prototypes, nice functions, nice job :cowboy: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/19 "2003-02-10T23:06:53Z")
Ilyas: Both of those files are the same… I attached the file in that last post, then I took the link of that file (right clicked and did “copy shortcut”) and put it in the first post. So they are the same file. But if you mean the same code as the example I posted… no, the posted example is my unoptimized code. I think the only difference that I noticed was maybe it works a bit faster than the original one, but other than that… works exactly the same. Oh and … :!: nice job!! YAY!!! :geek: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125/20 "2003-02-11T01:09:39Z")
personally I think you suck Lost…:\*( The animation is nice, but you suck cause I can’t do anything like that **yet**. So until I can do something better, you’re stuck being sucky. hahaha good job lost. =) [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-points-motion-experiment/13125.md?page=2)