How do you hide a cloned movie element?

[sonic04]

ok one of the users on this board helped me with cloning a movie element.

ok the movie element i cloned was an asteroid.

I have 5 astroids in my game.

I have a ship that shots a bullet upwards.

This is the code i have used for all my other games concerning hiding an object after collision:

astroid=element("astroid")
bullet=element("paint 207")

if(astroid.collideRect(bullet))
if(astroid.hide())
if(astroid.position.x=-999)
if(astroid.position.y=-999)
}

ok well its not working with this one because well im not sure but the bullet goes through the asteroids. Maybe it cant hide it because its a clone or a movie element.

Could someone help me figure out a way to hide the cloned movie element ("astroid")

If you need me to make an attachment of my game in progress i can, but otherwise, please send a message of help as soon as possable.

thanks

[lopez1_de]

astroid = element("astroid").clone()
astroid.hide();

[sonic04]

so my code cant be this:

astroid = element("astroid").clone()
bullet=element("paint 207")

if(bullet.collideRect(astroid))
if(astroid.hide())


what shold it be, because with this code, when i view my game from my site, everything slows down for some reason and this one astroid looks all funny.


Do you have a different code?

[lopez1_de]

this should work...

astroid = element("astroid").clone();
bullet = element("paint 207");

if (bullet.collideRect(astroid)) {
    astroid.hide();
    bullet.hide();
    playSound ("Boom");
} 

[sonic04]

somethings wrong, well i gatta go, but everythings acting weird lol

[sonic04]

well... one min ill try to get stuff to work

[sonic04]

can u help me make it so that when my bullet hits the cloned astroids they hide? i cant seem to get it to work, i think its because im used to dealing with paint elements, not movie elements.

ahh jeeze, i cant upload the file i need to convert it to a zip format.

[lopez1_de]

Originally posted by sonic04

ahh jeeze, i cant upload the file i need to convert it to a zip format.

just use winzip or winrar to compress the file as a .ZIP. then you be able to upload it.

[ForumNewbie]

It may just be a typo in the post, but remember:

In an 'if' statement, you must remember that it's == and not = .eg.

if (bob=sue)
{
terry=june
}

Will set bob to be equal to sue, which you don't want, whereas :

if (bob==sue)
{
terry=june
}

Will set terry equal to june, if bob equals sue, which is what I think you want.

Hope this helps,

Morgan.

Note: Edited because I accidentally hit tab then enter when typing the script, therefore it posted before I'd finished the example. Jeez Lopez you're quick

[lopez1_de]

Originally posted by ForumNewbie
Remember:

if (bob=sue)

no it's:

if (hell==earth) {
    girlfriend=zombie;
} 

[sonic04]

lol lol


thanks

[sonic04]

o jeeze, well lopez, you know how u made my the sample of the clone movie? I know its a lot to ask for in all, but do you think you could use that movie and make a basic ship and basic bullet that when the bullet hits the astroid clone it hides the astroid?

im not saying you have to do it now, but if u ever had spare time it really help me. Im afraid im getting off on the wrong track and if you give me a good example of just some cloned astroids and a ship and a bullet, that would help me get back on the right track if i can look at what you did.

i just dont understand, ive made other games using my collide code before and the objects hide when collision happened, but i was dealing with all paint elements and no clones. I guess using movie clips and clones is a little different.

Well id really appreciate it if you could make this little mini game for me, but if you cant ill understand.

thanks

[lopez1_de]

here is a full example which clones astroids and bullets/projectiles and have a collsion between them

this is a little mini game. can you destroy all astroids.

(every next question will cost an ammount of 10$)

[blanius]

Originally posted by lopez1_de

(every next question will cost an ammount of 10$)

Don't I wish!

[sonic04]

lol

its ok i know all i need to know...

for now lol

but thanks seriously.