# Shooting Stars

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shooting-stars/176033
**Category:** contests
**Created:** [January 19, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shooting-stars/176033 "2006-01-19T19:39:35Z")
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### Author: ![Ben\_H](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ben_h/32/939_2.png) [@Ben\_H](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ben_H)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shooting-stars/176033/1 "2006-01-19T19:39:35Z")

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A’ight, here’s another entry for y’all…  
I managed to get it down to 15 lines of code by storing the return values of functions in arrays (objs[0].va, objs\*.va, objs[n].vb).

```auto

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
objs = [createEmptyMovieClip(0,getNextHighestDepth())];
objs[0].va = [objs[0].lineStyle(0, 0, 0), objs[0].beginFill(0xEEDD00, 100), objs[0].moveTo(0, 0)];
for (a=0, r=15; a<=Math.PI*2; a+=Math.PI*0.2, r = 12+(12-r)) {
    objs[0].lineTo(Math.cos(a)*r, Math.sin(a)*r);
}
(Mouse.hide()) ? i=1 : null;
onEnterFrame = function() {
    objs* = objs[0].duplicateMovieClip(i,getNextHighestDepth());
    objs*.va = [_root.objs[0]._x = _root._xmouse, _root.objs[0]._y = _root._ymouse, objs*.xspeed = random(20)+1-10, objs*.yspeed = random(20)+1-10];
    for (n=1; n<(i+1); n++) {
        objs[n].vb = [objs[n]._alpha -= 5, objs[n]._height -= 1, objs[n]._width -= 1, objs[n]._x += objs[n].xspeed, objs[n]._y += objs[n].yspeed];
        (objs[n]._alpha < -5) ? objs[n].removeMovieClip() : null;
    }
    i++;
    objs[0]._rotation += 5;
}

```

-Ben