Play Symbol in a Symbol

addy121 · 07-07-2007, 08:14 AM

hey im new to makign games in flash, and have been trying to do this for hours but its bugging me really abd and looked everywhere.

basically im making a game and a man has a gun wich he can shoot with, i have 3 symbols all movieclips embedded in one another. like this

Man > Hand > Weapon

but i got the weapon to be animated when he shoots, ive tried everything and dont know how to animate just the weapon in the Hand in its currerntly location, i can do it via a fixed point using the code below;

attachMovie("deagle", "deagle", 4, {_x:50, _y:50});

that will play the animation everytime i click, but only in a fixed location, where i already have the hand moving on an axis, all i really need to know is how to run an animation thats embedded in multiple symbols.

thx alot andy

addy121 · 07-07-2007, 08:40 AM

problem solved movieclip1.movieclip2.movieclip3.play(); works, just incase anyone else has this problem.

addy121 · 07-09-2007, 02:16 PM

i got a new problem now, say deagle is built up like this man.hand.deagle, and the deagle moves around the screen via rotation of the hand. how would i get the coordinates of the deagle when it moves, becuase its where i want to base the bullet shot from. ive tried man.hand.deagle._x & ._y but it always returns the same coorindates even tho the deagle has moved on the screen, anyone got any ideas im new to this and want to learn

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thx alot - andy

07-07-2007, 08:14 AM	#1
addy121 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3	Play Symbol in a Symbol hey im new to makign games in flash, and have been trying to do this for hours but its bugging me really abd and looked everywhere. basically im making a game and a man has a gun wich he can shoot with, i have 3 symbols all movieclips embedded in one another. like this Man > Hand > Weapon but i got the weapon to be animated when he shoots, ive tried everything and dont know how to animate just the weapon in the Hand in its currerntly location, i can do it via a fixed point using the code below; attachMovie("deagle", "deagle", 4, {_x:50, _y:50}); that will play the animation everytime i click, but only in a fixed location, where i already have the hand moving on an axis, all i really need to know is how to run an animation thats embedded in multiple symbols. thx alot andy

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07-07-2007, 08:40 AM	#2
addy121 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3	problem solved movieclip1.movieclip2.movieclip3.play(); works, just incase anyone else has this problem.

07-09-2007, 02:16 PM	#3
addy121 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3	i got a new problem now, say deagle is built up like this man.hand.deagle, and the deagle moves around the screen via rotation of the hand. how would i get the coordinates of the deagle when it moves, becuase its where i want to base the bullet shot from. ive tried man.hand.deagle._x & ._y but it always returns the same coorindates even tho the deagle has moved on the screen, anyone got any ideas im new to this and want to learn . thx alot - andy