Simple problem

1

ok I am making an animation that has many different movie clips moving across a masked area at different speeds… when they hit a movie clip called ‘reset’ I want them to be moved back so many pixels and start the animation over again… here is the code I am using, it moves the clips fine but does not reset them with hitTest:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.reset)) {
this._x = -200;
} else {
speed = 2;
this._x += speed;
}
}

I know I am missing somehting really stupid - please help.
Peace

2

The code seems fine but I can mess with your .fla if you want, you can either private message me a URL or use my email:

[email protected]

3

ahhh crap… I just removed the elements to put into a seperate .fla to post and it all works fine in there… errrrrr … I must be missing something in my origonal MC - ahhh I think I know what it is… I shouldnt put _root.reset if the resetMC resides on the same time line within the movie clip? ahhh nope that didnt work

4

Maybe you have more than one object with the same instance names?

5

ok I got it to work: if I place the resetBlock on the main movie timeline with everything else happening in the MC it resets just fine… how can I make it so the reset block is in the MC and not on the main stage?

nope thats not the problem as far as I can tell

6

Well select you ‘reset’ instance and cut it (control + x) and double click on your MC that you want to paste it in and make its own layer if you want and paste (control + v) and change you script to this since your reset instance is within the clip itself:

**onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    if (this.hitTest([color=red]reset[/color])) {
        this._x = -200;
    } else {
        speed = 2;
        this._x += speed;
    }
}**
7

I did all that and for some reason it is not working properly… oh well I found a work around - it doesnt really matter it is just frustrating that something so simple is giving me grief! Thanks for your input… actually there is somehting else, I am thinking about making the MCs that are moving be reset at random alpha values, and or y positions relative to my mask… what do you think the best way to do this would be?