# Random starting point (motion tween)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-starting-point-motion-tween/297267>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 28, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-starting-point-motion-tween/297267 "2009-09-28T22:44:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![blaatschaap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@blaatschaap](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blaatschaap)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-starting-point-motion-tween/297267/1 "2009-09-28T22:44:39Z")

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First of all: I barely have any experience with Flash CS3, in fact I started two days ago. I don’t know anything about actionscript.

Im currently working on a banner for a client where bullets fall down on the screen. The bullet spins around via motion tweens. It looks pretty good and realistic, however the problem is that the animation only takes 3 seconds. In the third second there are no bullets on the screen so it’s very clear to the viewer that the animation restarts.

I was thinking about a random starting point for the motion tween to fix this but I have no idea how to acomplish this. Here’s an image to give you an idea what I want. The white is the area of the banner.

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/5857/e09f900cdb7eeb7d.png)

Help very much appreciated!