help for following mouse

Hi guys,

I'm having issues with a couple of things:

1) Replace the mouse with an image (that I didn't create inside Flash)
2) Have another image follow the mouse

I've looked up a number of tutorials about this, but they all give instructions based on having created the image inside Flash. I made my images in Photoshop, and I'm not sure why but when I try to paste in the actionscript for them, nothing works.

Particuarly, I was looking at this thing: http://articles.sitepoint.com/articl...mouse-follower , I kind of like the rotation but it's not necessary!

I'm more of an artist than a programmer, so I really don't even know where to begin in troubleshooting this. If someone could help me out on this, I'd appreciate it a bunch!

import the mouse replacing image into your libraby from the file menu. select it, press F8, make sure it's a movieclip and the registration point is set to center. name it mouse_mc.

inside it, on on _root (whatever you prefer)
write the code:

Mouse._visible = false;
onMouseMove = function(){
mouse_mc._x = _xmouse;
mouse_mc._y = _ymouse;
}

if you want something else following your mouse (follow_mc), there's more than one way, but a simple one would be this:

var velocity:Number = 20;

onEnterFrame = function(){

var xdif:Number = _xmouse - follow_mc._x;
var ydif:Number = _ymouse - follow_mc._y;

var v:Number = Math.sqrt(xdif*xdif + ydif*ydif);
follow_mc._x += xdif * velocity/v;
follow_mc._y += ydif * velocity/v;

}


EDIT:

this would be even better on the 2nd one...



var velocity:Number = 20;

onEnterFrame = function(){

var xdif:Number = _xmouse - follow_mc._x;
var ydif:Number = _ymouse - follow_mc._y;
var v:Number= Math.sqrt(xdif*xdif + ydif*ydif);


follow_mc._x += xdif * velocity/v;
if(Math.abs(follow_mc._x - _xmouse) < velocity/2){
follow_mc._x = _xmouse;
}

follow_mc._y += ydif * velocity/v;
if(Math.abs(follow_mc._y - _ymouse) < velocity/2){
follow_mc._y = _ymouse;
}

}

Ahh thanks so much! I had to alter the code a bit for the mouse (not sure why), but the following works great. Thanks again for your help!

no problem, glad to know it works wel :)