Loop Problems

Hi,

I want to emulate a random attack. I have been trying to do this by using an animation in a movie clip which begins invisible. I generate a random number and if the number 1 is generated the movie clip is made visible and the animation plays before going invisible again. For some reason the animation doest play correctly but i am not sure how to fix it. I think its something to do with the loop.

The animation has a stop(); on the last frame and the instance of the movie clip is called attack1_mc

Any help would be awesome.



Frame 1 code:

Code:

---

if (attack1==3) {
}
if (attack1==1){
}
else {
  attack1 = 0;
  attack1_mc._visible = false;
}

//attack1
if (attack1 == 1) {
  attack1_mc._visible = true;
  attack1_mc.gotoAndPlay(1)
}
if (attack1 == 3) {
  attack1_mc._visible = true;
  attack1_mc.gotoAndPlay(1)
 _global.life = _global.life-1;

}

---

Frame2:

Code:

---

num2 = random(20)

//'to hit' check
if (num2==1) {
  attack1 = 3
}
if (num2 ==2) {
  attack1 = 1
}

---

bump.

Anyone?

Your stop() action is what's stopping the loop. Your only runs the first frame once.

Oops, i should have said lolz.

I only want the animation to play through once, but i want it to play through fully.

It seems to be repeating the first could of frames over and over before playing through fully and dissapearing.. :(

It looks like script is trying to loop, not play once. Oh and I noticed you have the if statement repeated twice for the same condition.

Is it possible to upload the file?