[F8] Triggering tweens(frame animations) randomly with AS?

[SymboliC]

Hi,

I want to know if this is possible and how?

Let's say I have a MC which has a little animation of 10 frames inside it. 1st frame with stop(); action and the last frame with gotoAndStop(1);


Is it possible to trigger this animation like mc.gotoAndPlay(2); after a specified amount of time(in seconds or milliseconds) or in random time intervals?

My aim in doing this is, to randomize the background elements' movements... the thing is, I don't want to have something like a "stardust or rain fx" that is done with duplicateMovieClip... I know some examples for those but my question is related to a specific MC/animation.

[Quixx]

I'm using Flash MX 2004, so I'm not sure if you'll need to change some of the code or not.

The following code will choose a random amount of seconds to wait before playing again. Also, it will only play if it isn't currently playing, so it won't interupt it's progress through it's frames.

var cloudsFun:Function = function () {
	if (ran--<=0 and clouds._currentframe == 1 or ran == undefined) {
		clouds.gotoAndPlay(2);
		ran = random(3)+3;
	}
	trace(ran);
};
var clouds_int = setInterval(cloudsFun, 1000);

[indogo]

Various ways but a possible simple solution:

n = Math.round((Math.random()*10)+1);
c = 0;

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
c += n;
if (c >= 100){
this.onEnterFrame = null;
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

Place this in the first frame of the movieclip.
The numbers used will probably need to be altered to create the right effect based on your frame rate
mike

[mneil]

you can delay the action with a random number. use

[CODE]
APause = setInterval(GoBack, random(30000)+15000);//in milliseconds,30000 is max 15000 is minimum
function GoBack() {
my_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

this will repeat itself every random 15000milliseconds to 30000 milliseconds. You can stop the repeat by using clearInterval(APause); inside of the function GoBack() brackets. This works with flash 8, it should work with mx2004 though too.