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Ok my ship is killing the enemy ships, but now my missiles will only kill some of the ships... Roughly 1 in every 6 enemy ships will be hit by my bullet. The rest wont...
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To anyone concerned about collision detection - be careful with naming and targetting correctly.
You may use targetPath ( http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00001827.html ). I've had similar problem.
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I just noticed that when you change the EnemyShip code to for the EnemyMissile, the code changes the y that the enemy appears from back to: *300, when you have changed it to *200 + 50 in a previous Shootorial. Hope this helps someone.
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Vind777 made a very useful comment, i tried ages to figure out, that it is only working with a different instant name.
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i dont get it...
my code it perfect but they arnt dissapearing when i run into or shoot them...
they just fly over me
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When i did:
if(this.hitTest(_root.ship))
{
explode();
}
the enemy ships wouldnt disappear when i crashed into them. If you are having the same problem, try writing this command instead:
if(this.hitTest(_root.ship))
{
this.removeMovieClip();
}
It worked for me. Using the above command, the part where you create the function "explode()" won't be needed.
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If your explosion animation is looping, and you can't figure out what's wrong, make sure your Explosion.as file is saved in the same folder as your main flash file.
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If i am reading the first page correctly....... this should be the apex of the Tutorial process, i'm very happy to have made it this far, just 5 hours ago i would have looked at these codes and went "WTF!?!?!", thank you Kongregate for your easy tutorials and helping out us new people who want to take a hand at game developing.
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I need some help. When I added the Array, it doubled the number of enemies that spawned. I didn't worry about it at the time, but now I've added Hero Missiles and exactly half of the enemy ships can be destroyed by missiles; the other half just keep going. However, they can all be destroyed if I ram into them. The only thing I can think of would be that somehow the second half of the ships are not in the same array as the first. Please help.
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Does "hitTest()" return "True" if transparent bits from one png image hit transparent pixels on another? I mean, if the bounding boxes touch, but not their colored pixels. Does that make any sense?
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I lol'd, when every programming was done, i tested the movie. What happend? The enemies came flying normal, but then they shot a missile and they suddenly exploded. There was also a white missile of mine in front of them, even if i hadn't shot any missiles.
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I'm stuck on page 10 :-\
my missiles fly right through the enemies, the missile hitTest doesn't seem to be doing it's job.
any suggestions?
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I followed everything exactly the way the tutorials said, all of the way up to the health bars and the scores, but after adding those then every time I destroy an enemy ship then it destroys all of them on the screen... Its so annoying and I have back tracked to check the codes and everything is exactly the way it should be... Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Still stuck on trying to make the hero's ship missiles to hit and explode the enemies, i check all the coding and i see no mistakes any help? i using cs5
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Everything is working fine, except my Enemy Missiles aren't firing across the scene. They appear, then stop. Nothing else. Help?
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it would appear that (judging by others comments) that anyone using macromedia flash 8 cannot load up the source files once downloaded. could anyone post it so that those with macromedia can carry on with this tutorial. it's a bit annoying that after getting this far i'm being held back by software... thanks
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Alright I need help if anyone can assist... I cannot get my function explode() to attach to this.removeMovieClip If I replace "{explode();}" with "{this.removeMovieClip}" it functions properly and removes enemy ship on impact of ship but with explode they just pass right through each other and no impact collision... So.. what am I doing wrong?
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Ok I have another problem. I just finished page 14 and I went to test it and an error popped up:
WARNING: The Export Frame for Classes specified in the Publish or Export settings, frame 5, does not exist. No bytecode for ActionScript 2.0 classes or interfaces was exported.
If it means anything I'm currently using Flash CS5, not CS3.
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When i go to the link and download the files, the explosion clip doesn't appear, just the explosion.as. What's wrong =(
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Okay for the last three days I have tried to figure out what is wrong with my missiles... I cannot get them to make enemy ship explode they just go through them... =/ driving me crazy
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I GET THESE ERRORS i saved every thing resolved other errors but these
C:\Users\Fawaz.FAWAZ-HUSSAIN-P\adobe cc5\Shootorial\Ships.as, Line 48 There is no property with the name 'enemy'.
C:\Users\Fawaz.FAWAZ-HUSSAIN-P\adobe cc5\Shootorial\Ships.as, Line 48 There is no property with the name 'enemy'.
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i have a problem please help! when i shoot and hit ,or colision, the explosion works, but it loops (plays continous). how should i fix this??
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Thank you Coopasetic!!
If your explosion animation is looping, and you can't figure out what's wrong, make sure your Explosion.as file is saved in the same folder as your main flash file.
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@Natthone maybe you're doing something wrong. You'll have to provide a little extra detail for me to be able to help you though.
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@gortholomew make sure you did everything right, and pay extra attention to the pages 8, 9 and 10. If the problem still persists, send me a pm with your ship, enemy ship and missile code.
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i did everything right until page 14. the enemies arent exploding when they get hit by missiles. i went back and rechecked everything but i cant find what i missed.
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Hey everyone! If anyone here wants to convert AS2 code to AS3 I set up a quick guide on how to do it. This uses old code that you wont want in newer projects but the site I set up will explain how to use it! http://codingflashfast.webs.com/
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Can anyone help me? My hitTest doesnt work I've been trying for 2 days. It looks like this:
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
if (this.hitTest(_root.instancename))
{
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
can't see why it doesn't work. Help would be greatly appreciated.
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Download links is the Action Script Shootorial seems to work, use those files if you need them:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Moly/shootorial-1-actionscript-3
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****PROBLEM SOLVED****
If your missile is killing enemies without hitting it as soon as it gets fired, check in the "Missile.as" file, find the "onEnterFrame()" function, and take a look at the "if" condition inside the "for...in" loop; at the end of the condition declaration there shouldn't be any ";".
Example: THIS IS WRONG
if (this.hitTest( _root.hero.enemies[i] )) // NO ";" IN THE END
{
//SOME CODE
}