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For those with score issues:
1: test your score-display by putting
_root.ship.score += 50;
_root.scoreText.text = _root.ship.score;
in your Explosion (before this.removeMovieClip)
- In game it should automatically start with a 0 and rise with every explosion.
- If you got that to work. You probably made a mistake when placing the resetScore and updateScore functions. They should be under the onEnterFrame function (not in it!)
- go over all of your {}
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ok i have a couple problems. My health bar wont go down, but i get hurt and die. When I kill an enemy I dont get any points. And when I die my game over menu doesnt come up. I dont have any compiler errors and my code is 100% the same as the tutorials. Can someone help me out please
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For me the problem was that i couldent add score to the scoretext. Later i realised that you need to put the " _root.ship.updateScore(50); " over the " this.removeMovieClip(); ". I think it is beacus when you remove it from the game you remove the commands for that Enemyship to , so the text under will never be execuded.
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My healthMeter wasn't working until I added "resetHealth();" in the "function onLoad()" [--> Ship.as].
Perhaps this could help somebody.
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for those who struggle with a game over menu, try making it in a seperate frame on the root timeline. then right click on both frames and type stop()
On the death function for you ship, rather than showing the game over menu, put _root.gotoAndStop("The frame with game over in it") similiarly with your button, make one, give it an instance name on the game over menu and type into the frame actions
"button's instance name".onPress = function()
{
gotoAndStop("Frame with main game on it")
}
Hope this helped!
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Argh!!! KEEP GETTING AN ERROR MESSAGE! "The class or interface 'gameOverMenu' could not be loaded." on the previews it shows up as usual but play again link doesn't work. apparantly its to do with symbol=gameOverMenu, layer=bg, frame=1, line 1. i dont get it cos i only got a rectangle on that layer
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I don't know about other people but I couldn't get my score to show except for blank, 0, and 00. Somehow I fixed it by typing 0123456789 in the text box. I hope this helps someone...
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256 levels of recursion were exceeded in one action list.
This is probably an infinite loop.
Further execution of actions has been disabled in this movie.
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I had an issue with the score and health meter not updating, but I moved the call to the update health and update score function above the call to this.removeMovieClip and it worked. I suppose once the movie clip is remove it stops calling code immediately.
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:( Apparently I messed up on the score and kept getting something about classes - I couldn't test. I spent 3 hours comparing my script to the examples. It all seemed correct. Then I undoed many times to an effort to undo what i did wrong. I ended up back where I couldn't hit enemies with missiles :( and I saved before I found out. >.<
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The game over menu is not working for me very well. Instead of removing the game over menu at the beginning, it removes my scrolling background image instead, and then restores the image when the game over menu is supposed to come up in the end. Other then the play again button not working in the end, everything else is working fine right now.
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Really bugging me now! Everything is working fine *except* when health hits 0 the ship remains visible - only once has is actually disappeared on death like it should.
Game Over pops up, all enemies disappear, health meter reads 0 but the ship just will not hide.
Have checked the code over and over again but at a loss now.
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If you copy the game over menu, be sure to set the instance name to gameOverMenu, it took me an hour to figure out that it wasn't done for me :P
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Ok, if my ship gets hit by a missile the health goes all the way down to 0.The missile when it hits SHOULD be 10, I've checked it's file 20 times, and the update score is fine, so what's wrong?
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it says there is no property called health on several lines of my ship class. this causes the whole game to notr work
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I figured it out. If you are having font trouble, delete all 'text _' s in the library, then hit embed on your text, and click the CHECK BOX by the numerals 1-9.
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Please help! My score won't show up! I shoot an enemy, and the score either changes blank, 0 or 00. Help me!
And how do you make a game over menu?
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I'm using CS3. I followed the tutorial up to and including page 4.
There is no method with the name 'resetScore'.
Great, because I know what that means. -_-
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Maybe it's exclusive to Cs5 but I have to make a method for EVERY SINGLE FUNCTION. In other words, (because I hope I'm not the only one who still doesn't understand all this programmer lingo), for everywhere that it says "Function ________()" it needs to have "Var ______;" or an error message will ensue :( I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong though, so I may be incorrect. It does make the error messages so away though :D
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I need help. My score disappears whenever it changes, even at the start.
I'm using Impact font, if that makes any difference.
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I'm having Problems with the healthMeter / Bar i don't know how to add the bar to the healthMeter. Can somebody explain this to me?
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I can't download the source file. Nothing happens when I click it. And I really need it right now. :( When I add the if(_visible = true) statement to my ship onLoad function, the ship does not turn invisible after being destroyed anymore. Very strange and annoying and can't find anything...
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i9 knw tht this might just be another stupid comment, but my score looks just like theirs but without the yellow highlight and the "_root" is blue, is tht a problem?
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bro, you didn't understand what i wrote.
i have the source files, but when i try to open the .fla, it says it's not compatible or something like that.
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well, im using cs5 trial because the cs3 one ended. i couldnt get cs3 to work. now when i add the "_root.gameOverMenu.playAgainButton.onPress = function()
{
_root.ship.newGame();
}" part, i get an error: "This statement is not permitted in a class definition."
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ok so this is what you do: you make it like normal but make the ship invisible and make the explosion animation keep popping up where the player is. it looks SOO cool!!!
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woah! if you make it stay visible in the explode function and the explosion doesnt dissapear (and keeps being made) it looks really cool!