this time i've got two...

[cyber reaper]

Hi ,can some one tell me how to make element to do the following :

A) move left at high speed (by sliding)
B) move to another element and stop (by sliding)

i've got no expiriance in this kind of stuff and its realy pissing my
off

P.S - blanius dont give up on 3dfa ....without you im doomed....

[blanius]

not sure what you mean by "sliding"

[cyber reaper]

by slide i mean - not just appear in the x and y that ill pick
but i want it to move there (motion)

if you still dont understand what i mean check the 3dfa samples
pac-men.........i want to make the element move as the hero does

[blanius]

Ah I think I see.
Basically you have to determine the velocities you want and watch for when it arrives at it's destination

I have a formula for part of this

if you know target X and target Y and origin x and origin y then set an element x velocity and with a y veolocity of

t=(target.x-origin.x)/element.velocity.x
element.velocity.y=(target.y-origin.y)-(t*t/2))/t


simpler if you just want it to slide in then set a positive x velocity and a small negative acceleration watching in a IF loop until it arrives at the desired x position

srart script like this.
ele=element ("moon")//useed moon clipart to test
startx=0
starty=0
endx=160
ele.x=startx
ele.y=118
ele.velocity.x=400
ele.acceleration.x=-40


then in looping script I put
if (ele.x=>endx){

ele.velocity.x=0
ele.acceleration.x=0
}

[cyber reaper]

thanks blanius....but i afried i tried what you told me but it didnt
worked....

im incloding a small demo .movie file to show you that its just
keep appearing insted of sliding...

please take a look and tell or just change it ...whatever you like

what went wrong?

[blanius]

couple of things. First off you can't have velocity on an animation. If you really must have it put the animation on a layer.

Second the loop that checks for position can't be in the button it must be in a script that is executed all the time.

See attached.

[cyber reaper]

in that case i have to ask you one more last thing
will it be ok to use that loop on a frame of an animation ,so one
it have been reached that frame the animation (wich is in a layer)
will execute the script ?

PS - you better show me an example because dont realy understand much about this kind of stuff

[blanius]

I don't entirely understand but I don't think it'll work that way.

What you can do is in the animation frame set a variable in the root movie that is a "trigger" to start the animation. In other words in you IF statement check also if the "trigger" is true. And in your animation on the needed frame set the value of this "trigger" to be true.

[cyber reaper]

just tell me as simple as possible .... how can i move an animation,
you said it sould be in a layer

but how do i write that scrip ?

im not sure i realy need velocity cause all i want it to do is :

a) just move until ill destroy it using .destroy command

b) move to another element's x position

thats all ! im sure there is an easy way of making this go

please try to make my life as simple as possible i dont know what roots are and i think i wont unserstand....just keep it to basic
hope its not to much truble

[blanius]

Look over the attached file.

[cyber reaper]

oh thank you i hope ill find out how to change the numbers
to do what i need


THANKS !!!!!!