[CS3] Item pickups

Hopefully i can explain this correctly, making a shooter game and want a item pickup basically my avatar will run into the weapon and it'll change to the its different pose (avatar holding that weapon). From what I can understand the avatar to item will be a collision detection but I have no idea where to start. This is my most difficult part for my game >_>

any suggestions?

I would think the bullets colliding with enemies would be the most difficult part :)

But collision detection in general will be needed all over your game (bullets vs enemies, enemies vs player, player vs powerups), look into HitTest.

well I have bullets colliding with enemies that wasn't too bad its just figuring out the dang hitTest for a different item

I'm not sure if this is what your looking for, but you could try putting this on your character:

Code:

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.Weapon)) {
gotoAndPlay("WeaponFrame");
}
}

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