Recent posts by Tidenburg on Kongregate

Topic: Programming / Strange Problems

This means there’s another piece of codes conflicting with that command. Because the stop would take effect it means you’ve got an onEnterFrame with play(); in it which is carrying along into this frame OR a movieclip is making the command. Take a look through to see if any other code could be overwritting it.

Topic: Collaborations / Are you funny?

I laughed, but for all the wrong reasons :p

Topic: Programming / a minor problem with functions

You don’t place the brackets by the function name in an interval. You should also assosciate the interval with a variable so you can clear it later.

Topic: Collaborations / Republican Flash Animators and Programmers

I don’t play anti-bush stuff because im liberal, I play them because his face annoys me. ;)

Topic: Collaborations / I want to make a website, but I need help

It’s not illegal, just against terms of use and yea, you’ll be banned ^^,

Topic: Programming / Flash object collision problem :S

No it wouldn’t. Some games have much more than that running at once ;)

Topic: Technical Support / uploading games problem

Happens to me aswell, it says there is an invalid filetype even though its a .swf and works everywhere else. When I swap to IE it fixes.

Topic: Games / rock band two and guitar hero 4/world tour

My question will Rockband 1’s guitars and drums work with rockband 2? I’m buying rockband regardless because even though its only a few months to wait, I can’t wait that long. I have Guitar Hero 3 but its more challenging than it is fun (Since I passed medium I barely play it for kicks).

Topic: Art / iSpartan

Mine,

5 minutes in photoshop obviously, so the headphone cables are a pencil line instead of using the pen tool like I wanted to.

And yes the master chief sports a nano ;)

Topic: Programming / How do input text fields work?

Click the box and make sure “auto-kern” is checked. No idea what it does but that works for me ;)

Topic: Programming / How do input text fields work?

Click your input field and type somthing into the variable name box. Then on the frame to reference it you would just type

_root.thevariablenamehere;

To store it as a variable (if you’re about to change frames) then type:

var myVariable = _root.thevariablenamehere;

Basically, all you do there is a define a new variable with the label myVariable and make it equal to the value of the input area.

Topic: Art / ►Pokemon Fusion! Rawr!◄

ok, so it’s not two pokemon but I just had to put this in ^^,

Kongaskhan

Topic: Programming / Object depth

Thats a pretty unintuitive way of attaching objects. I prefer using:

var bullets:Array = [];
onMouseDown = createMC = function() {
    var mc = bullets[bullets.length] = attachMovie('bullet', 'bullet' + bullets.length, _root.getNextHighestDepth);
    mc._x = gun._x;
    mc._y = gun._y;
}
function cycleThru(){
    for(i=0;i<bullets.length;i++){
        var cb = _root['bullet'+i];
        cb._x += xspeed;
        cb._y += yspeed; //obviously these would have been previously assigned.
        if(cb.hitTest(wall)){ //awful method of hitTesting obviously
            bullets.slice(i);
            removeMovieClip(cb);
        }
    }
}

I literally just wrote that in this window so don’t be putting it into flash expecting it to work. In my opinion swapdepths is the best way to go, and its but no means the quick-way-out. I find it alot easier and efficient than trying to remember which instance is which and your statement about keep track of the objects makes no sense as the depth has nothing to do with the instance name?

My point was that he simply wanted to bring the player to the top, getNextHighestDepth() is best for that, what you’re forgetting if you use an external class such as nonoba’s API’s (haven’t tried Kongs yet) then the can be overwritten by hardcoding your depths like that.

Topic: Programming / I need to learn actionscript

more specifically. http://board.flashkit.com/board/forumdisplay.ph… For help.

Topic: Collaborations / Are you funny?

Haha, shame, the second one was funny. By the way, every webcomic needs a girl, it’s a fact! :)

Topic: Games / Shift 3

Shift was not only a stolen idea but it’s been done to death now anyway. They’re just milking it out for all that it’s worth.

Topic: Collaborations / Are you funny?

I thought you were gonna use 2DArray?

Topic: Off-topic / The Petition For Making A New Forum Games Section

Sign! Might as well ^^

Topic: Off-topic / How can I revive a hopeless computer?

Click start -> Run -> msconfig then press enter. Go to services, click hide MS services and uncheck all the stuff you don’t need excluding your anti virus software, then click startup and do the same. Type the process name into google to see what it means, this way you can see which services and programs are critical and which are not. Also, right click on the desktop, click arrange icons and then untick show desktop icons, this really speeds up startup.

Topic: Programming / Object depth

Imagine layers (on a cake!) and then each layer is assigned a number. The default layer are somewhere down negative. The problem with arcane coders method is that you are hardcoding depths, which can cause problems if you are importing other movies or blindly swapping to random depths,

hero_mc.swapDepths(_root.getNextHighestDepth());

Simply pushes the hero to the top without overwriting anything else.

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However, if your hero was in another movieclip such as a world container you would type,

world.hero_mc.swapDepths(_root.world.getNextHighestDepth());

Just incase. :)

Topic: Programming / Rotation

The rotation property is accessed through,

._rotation

There is no built in rotations for objects to make them appear 3d, you have to draw the illusion yourself or use a plugin like papervision.

Topic: Programming / HOW do you draw a stick persion

Also, there are plenty of Stick Figure tuturials at Stick Figure Death Theatre.

Look in this forum for the main selection ;) http://support.sfdt.com/viewforum.php?f=4

Topic: Art / http://www.everythinghfgf####

2 hours and its still here?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is it ever right to kill someone?

If someone innocent will die from you not killing that person then yes. Murder as punishment would have to be a no for me aswell, if they’ve been taught incorrectly then it’s hardly their fault and prison or some other reforming technique should be used. Not Americas “bin ‘em” technique.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Have You Ever Been Close to Death?

Does anyone else get what I do where reading about someone getting injured makes you feel it yourself? When I read about falling from a tree and your legs being broken I can feel my legs go light! Strange thing. :)