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yeah. I found the shootorial layout template thing after I was like 95% done with this tutorial :/ what's not user-friendly about the layout? mebe I'll fix it.
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@ Mato: "Truefire says: I'm probably gonna remove the laggy title screen. Tukkun says: No, lag doesn't matter, it's epic"... Blame Tukkun. But yeah, I'll probably remove it anyway.
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Title screen is incredibly laggy. No reason you should have it, makes the whole tutorial look very unprofessional.
Effects themselves are nice though.
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"Note: This game is listed under the TUTORIALS category of Kongregate. Pleade don’t comment something like “Not a game 1/5”… Thanks…"
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Yeah. I can't do anything about that though. It should be displaced by better games by the end of the week though, so no worries.
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AS2 is more newb-friendly (less strict), and, despite the fact that some (rich and/or pirate :P) coders think anything that's not the latest version should be erased from existence, many people still use AS2, for whatever reason.
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On -The End- screen for the bitmap tutorial, you say that: You know know everything in the universe. Know x2? However, this was very informative even though I've never done programming at all.
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Typos: [-Using Combined Objects-] = 'definitely', not 'definately'. Other than that, I think you intentionally misspelled 'the'.
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I tried your code out wert, and it worked fine. Make sure the code is on the fire clip's first frame's actions panel. make sure you have an instance of that clip on the stage. also make sure your particle clip has something in it, and has Linkage set to "Particle"
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Yeah, this tutorial uses the actions panel for code. It could be done in .as files with some minor adjustments, but I find the actions panel more convenient for small-scale things like this. I'll take a look at it and see if I made a mistake somewhere.
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ok, found a few bugs so far.
i will post the code i have now here
function makeParticle()
{
var depth = this.getNextHighestDepth();
var p = this.attachMovie("Particle","p"+depth, depth);
p.dir = Math.random() * 360;
p.velocity = Math.random() * 5;
p.xVel = Math.cos(p.dir * Math.PI/180) * p.velocity;
p.yVel = Math.sin(p.dir * Math.PI/180) * p.velocity;
p.count = 0;
p.onEnterFrame = function()
{
this.count += 1;
this._x += this.xVel;
this._y += this.yVel;
if(this.count > 200)
{
this.removeMovieClip()
}
}
}
function onEnterFrame()
{
makeParticle();
}
i retyped the frame code, it didn;t work.
and I changed the "speed" to "velocity", AND I added p. to the dir and speed var.
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i don't understand.. do you have to put the code in the actions of the movie clip itself, the object? or in an .as file? (class Fire extends etc.) or in the first frame actions?
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Update! Fixed the problems you pointed out marten, other than the source. I might do that within the next few days, but I'm kinda busy now. And sorry Tukkun, but I nerfed the Ninja XP you get from reading this tutorial by 40%. it was just way to overpowered.
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Thanks for all the encouragement. Thanks for pointing those mistakes out marten, Expect them fixed when I get back in about 3-4 hours. Farmer, if you look up top, you'll notice I uploaded this to the "tutorials" section of Kongregate. Things posted here aren't supposed to be games.
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Tutorial wise its preety good i was expecting some noob who had found a code to make particles and posted it. but u explained in detail good job,
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but sum script errors :
u cant use function() in a movie clip use it in actions in frame . thats all :P
but i tryed to do it but failed ill hope i can do it :P
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Shame I couldn't get the files either. Compiler is having a field day with the code. I've been trying to break it down to find the problems. Could not. I went so far as to paste the exact code you have into the AS. Nota. Well, at least you gave me an idea. I'll have to work on it on my own sometime.
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My web of trust plugin really hates the sites hosting your source files. That being the case, I didn't download them. Perhaps there is a better place to host them?
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Particle effects, page 6 & 7. It tells me that function makeParticle(); and function (onEnterFrame) must be in a onClipEvent handler. And if I add that it doesn't work. :( Help please.