duplicating one mc

[stork1515]

Hello-

I'm a little out of practice so I came here to consult the Flash gurus. I want to take one mc and when the movie is loaded I want to duplicate that mc a random number of times (within 40 or 50) then assign each of those mc's random attributes such as alpha level and dimensions.

I'm assuming it'll be some kind of loop to create the mc's then another loop to assign the attributes to each of the created mc's.

I appreciated any and all help.

Thanks
Dan

[SJT]

Yeah it is a loop,

[code]for (x=0; x<50; x++){
duplicateMovie Clip (_level0.original, "mc"+x, x ) ;

[SJT]

//put the bit from the post above here.

alphaTemp = math.random()*100;
   xTemp = math.random()*100;
   yTemp = math.random()*100;
//for some reason flashkit keeps breaking the code
   _root["mc"+x]._alpha = alphaTemp;
   _root["mc"+x]._xscale = xTemp;
   _root["mc"+x]._yscale = yTemp;
}

Hows that? I had to post in bits as vB was having real trouble not messing up the code...

Original is the name of the starting movieclip on the stage.

[stork1515]

Thanks for the help. I'm gonna give it a go right now.

[stork1515]

Why does this only duplicate once? It seems to not want to loop.

alphaTemp = math.random()*100;
xTemp = math.random()*100;
yTemp = math.random()*100;
xpos = math.random()*550;
ypos = math.random()*400;
count = 1;

while (count<50){
duplicateMovieClip ("block","mc"+count, count);
_root["mc"+count]._alpha = alphaTemp;
_root["mc"+count]._xscale = xTemp;
_root["mc"+count]._yscale = yTemp;
_root["mc"+count]._x = xpos;
_root["mc"+count]._y = ypos;
count++;
}


The code is on frame 1 of the main timeline and "block" movie clip is on frame one as well. on seperate layers of course.

Any thoughts

Thanks
Dan

[SJT]

it's not duplicating once, it's doing it 50 times, but the position and size of all the clips is exactly the same.
You have to pu the random generators in the loop as well to get random attributes for each clip.