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Hi guys. When I try to use ._currentFrame and ._totalFrames there is an error that reads: "there is no property with this name". Help plz
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can someone tell me how to insert the explosion in cs5.5? cause when i try to open the Fla file it says "Unexpected file format"
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I have searched through my code a million times, and cant find any reason why my explosion animation loops constantly when I destroy an enemy. I even tried importing the kongregate explosion file + code, to no effect, so the problem obviously doesnt lie with explosion.as file. PLEASE help, its the only major problem Ive encountered so far and am unable to figure this one out on my own, ive been stuck on it for two days!
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Everyone who can only shoot half their enemy ships, listen up: You're not putting all the enemy ships in the enemy array. Many of us weren't careful when we copied and pasted the Shootorial code into the onEnter function, so now we have two independent ship launching codes. Basically, if you forget to delete a certain bit of code, half of the new enemy ships are not pushed into the array and so aren't affected by missiles. To correct this, look at the source ship.as and compare it to your code under the onEnter function, specifically the part that reads "if (enemyTimer..."
I deleted a line from my ship.as to match the source, and it works without a hitch now!
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Got another question, im not using the downloads with this, im making all that myself so i can learn it too, does anyone know a good animation tutorial, i looked on the web but cant find anything that seems to help/work
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well i tried this and i got to the point with the explosion and now my game just flashes every few seconds, its just white and then for like 1 frame the game shows, and then goes white again, i deleted everything i had added before this and it still does it, someone PLEASE help me, ive been working for the whole day on this and i really dont want to have to start over only to make another damn mistake
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For all people who have problems with missiles that don't make enemie explode: after a week I finally solved it! You have to make sure that the name of your 'ship' is exactely filled in the codes, and it must be different from the class name. So I called it 'ShipInstance' and it only worked after I filled in this:
for(var i in _root.ShipInstance.enemies)
{
if(this.hitTest( _root.ShipInstance.enemies[i] ) )
{
this.removeMovieClip();
_root.ShipInstance.enemies[i].explode();
}
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@jumpking55, that's because we are trying to access to a variable array which if you remember we have it defined in the ship. it's very wise to store it there because always will be the ship instance before any missile or enemy, so we can assure that the array enemies exists. Notice that is like a path, you can say: "from the root timeline (the main one), look for the ship, then inside it, give me the array enemies". I hope this helped. :P
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I don't know why the for..in loop is still not working for me... the instance's name is zhip, I added enemies.push(enemy); in the class Ship right after creating a new enemy (syntax test is ok). But in the Missile class on the very first line of the loop for(var i in _root.zhip.enemies) it founds and error, says class definition doesn't allow this declaration.
Please help! =(
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When I wanted to import the .fla file into the Flash library, the Flash said: "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them." Also, nothing moves in the test movie. I have Flash CS 5.5, don't know if this is the problem.
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please help whenever i hit the enemy dead on it kills it but when i hit it with my side it kills all enemies on screen, i really need help
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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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now it says this: EnemyMissle.as, Line 1 The class 'EnemyShip' needs to be defined in a file whose relative path is 'EnemyShip.as'.
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Nevermind. Answer is yes. Kind of cheap that AS2 does that. I would expect more than a good old fashioned bounding box-style thing. Ah, well. It's still very useful.
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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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Only half of the enemies on-screen are being killed by my bullets- the rest of them, I can only kill by moving my hero into them. Does anybody know a fix?
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@wowguy102
@Azer1652
Make sure the instance name of your hero ship is different than its class name, and make sure that the code
if(this.hitTest(_root.ship))
instead of putting (_root.ship)), replace "ship" with the instance name (make sure casing is correct, too)
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when i shoot the enemies, some of them dont even get affected, but when i shoot some of the others, they get shot. Can someone plzhelp? I literally copied the code into all my files, annd nothing got affected. Plz help!!!
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hey im having a bit of trouble Ive been stuck on page 4 for about 30 mins now and it says that when the hero ship hits the enemy ship it is supposed to explode. I try to do that and it don’t work it does not even give me and error or anything my ship just flys through them. If you could help I would be very gratefull!!!! Thanks in advance!! -wowguy102
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i'm using flash cs5 and when i try to use the hitTest line it just returns an error saying that i cant use that code on a Class definition =( any solutions?
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I NEED HELP!!!! when i click on the download for the sources nothing comes up and i want to advance on my game so can someone tell me a link or a way to fix this problem
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Do someone knows how to change a movie clip selection square to something else? i mean, i have blank spaces in my enemy ship and i want the "hero ship" go trough that blank spaces without taking damage, or without colliding, its there a way? (srry my bad english)
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Hey, if you're testing your movie you need to have saves your .as files first or it won't change anything!! :) thumbs up keep it alive
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stuck here for a day
the problem is my missiles through enemy
and the reason is 1.) i forgot var enemy that made enemies.push(enemy) no property
2.) i forgot change the new ship instance name in all .as file
think most ppl have same problem as i
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I need help, i just finish the tutorial # 5 and now my ship can't move no more. With the thing I added. Only the background still working (Defile). Anyone got a idea why my game isn't working well now?
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If you're using CS4, the correct "properties" area where you input your new Instance Name to be "ship" can be found in the upper right panel. Just select the "Properties" tab instead of the "Library" tab.
((Your workspace may look different. I'm using the -Classic- Workspace. To change workspaces, go to the top of the program and click "Window"-> "Workspace" -> "Classic".))