duplicating my snowflake

[GreatSmurf]

I made an MC with a snowflake that moves from top of screen to bottom... How would I duplacte the MC using actionscripting so that it appears all over the screen at different alpha's.. Keeping in mind that my movie is 780x450? thanks forum

[tublu]

here's from the Flash 5 help file :
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This statement duplicates the movie clip instance ten times. The variable i is used to create a new instance name and a depth.

on(release) {
	amount = 10;
	while(amount>0) {
		duplicateMovieClip (_root.flower, "mc" + i, i);
		setProperty("mc" + i, _x, random(275));
		setProperty("mc" + i, _y, random(275));
		setProperty("mc" + i, _alpha, random(275));
		setProperty("mc" + i, _xscale, random(50));
		setProperty("mc" + i, _yscale, random(50));
		i = i + 1;
		amount = amount-1;
	}
}