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here this is a generic fla to show what is happening. I know why it happens, i just wanna know if there is a way around it.

well, there is no fill. its just stroke. basically when i tween the clip to change dimensions since the final size is larger than the original size it distorts. i'll post a fla anyway

im pretty sure this is a pretty dumb question, but its frustrating me. I have this square shape mask. It animates by changing size when the user clicks a button. I want a border around this mask, so...

I wasn't trying to be condesending man...I apologize if I came across that way. I was merely trying to say that I have done that method and didn't particularly like it.

thank you though for your...

that local connection thing is pretty damn snazzy. I'm gonna have to give that a whirl. It would be a great way to make a flash based "shout box" or chat room...what else do you think that could be...

ok, after posting my initial question, I decided to try a variant of something that had been implimented in tonypa's tile based tutorial.

I would define a variable on the main timeline called...

thats how I did my first portfolio...the one I made while still in school. That method works, but I don't really like the idea of making 20 different flash files. However, if I can't figure out how...

ok, I am working on a portfolio type interface. I have the navigation set up like so:

+main nav bar with different categories (flash, 2d, 3d, etc)
++sub navigation for each category...

holy shiznit, i just figured out the problem with my movie being off center, and that in turn fixed the problem with hero placement...and it occured to me suddenly. I remember reading in tonypa's...

here is the fla

omg...thats alot of code just to center a movie clip....wow.

I'm slightly overwhelmed with all this new code im trying to absorb just with the basic tile engine. I'll try your method mbenney, but...

ok, I tried your code, and this is what I got (see fla).

...its under the buildMap function in frame one of the actions layer.

anything else aside from trial and error?

here, take a look...i've tried many different things to get the movie clip centered...finally I had to achieve it by trial and error. But I don't like that method, especially if I have to resize...

yeah, the movie clip with the map is not centered on the stage...I could just figure out the _x and _y positions that make it centered, but i was wondering if there was a script that centered it...

ah, silly me! I wrote it down wrong from your site.

I have one more question...i've resized my movie to fit the map...how do I make it so the movie is centered on my screen cause right now the...

alright, I tried what you told me, and it works...to a certain degree! Now I have a weird bug..it generates the map, but not completely. Just take a look and see what I mean!

Thank you for helping...

I'm doing your tutorial for tile based games..as you know. I've inserted all the code exactly as it should be, I have the empty movie clip and the tile movie clip in my library...i've even downloaded...

yeah, thats true but im still new to game scripting, so anything is better than what I know right now! I'm also reading the OutsideOfSociety tile tutorial...yours and his are very close, although...

hey, i was checking out the tutes on your website. I enjoyed the tile tutorial very much, very descriptive and easy to follow. I was wondering though if you were going to finish the series?

thanks for the new link for the Out of Society page!! Also, I found the tonypa stuff in a forum search..thanks though!

yeah, thats one of the links in the sticky....i seem to have a problem loading the site...It wont load!!

anyway, im currently searching forum archives for tutes/opensource, but any good links are...

ok, I need a good site that has tutorials on making a tile based game. Before yinz try to flame me, YES i've searched on the internet and i've checked the sticky with all the links. Half of them...

yeah, thats true...but I have the stop action there so when the movie initially loads it doesn't go past the first frame. Thats why I figured I could just use the gotoAndPlay code because of the stop...

ok, I think I see what your saying. I actually considered defining a variable, but I didn't think I would need to! I'll try it though. thanks!

The only thing I don't understand is why does the...

ok, what i want to do here is: say i press button 1, the animation plays and the sub nav loads. When I press button 2, obviously, I want the sub nav from button 1 to disappear and the sub nav for...