# Simple way of multiple identicle MC's?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 21, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560 "2003-10-21T02:54:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@elion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elion)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560/1 "2003-10-21T02:54:56Z")
I’m using this as my example again:
> **[Trapped 4](https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/128387)**
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> Trapped 4 of the Series "Trapped" A fun puzzle adventure game!
If you would play that game for a minute or two, what I’m wondering about is the X’s that damage you if you touch them. The only way I can think of having that many identical MC’s doing the same thing is to give each one of them a different instance name and have the actions apply to each one individually. Is there an easier way to do this? :puzzle:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560/2 "2003-10-21T04:56:44Z")
nah, if you have a clip made with the code, you can then just hold down alt, click and drag and create a duplicate. there are better ways of doing that with actionscript though… there is a lot involved however… try searching for a tutorial on the FlashMX event model, that should give you a good start on doing that type of stuff.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560/3 "2003-10-21T05:02:06Z")
the game is tilebased. What it basically says it if the Hero lands on the “x” tile then tell lifebar to play.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560/4 "2003-10-21T19:35:31Z")
I wish I could do the first thing you suggested, but that doesn’t work when numerous things have the same instance name :skull: I also have no idea what this event model stuff is, so I’ll just do it the hard way. ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560/5 "2003-10-21T19:57:16Z")
Well the hard way is driving me friggen insane. I need to find an easier way! ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-way-of-multiple-identicle-mcs/33560/6 "2003-10-21T22:23:10Z")
The attached example is one way to achieve what you want, I think. I didn’t look at your link so I have no idea what kind of movement you want, that’s up to yo. to do–but hopefully the duplicate AS can be applied to YOUR MC.