mc following mouse but within limits and smoothly

[thevibe]

Hi guys,

I am doing an animation with a movie clip that needs to follow the mouse on the Y axis only smoothly and needs to stay inside a fixed dimension. (e.g. the mc could moves 200px left or 200px right maximum) And I want it to stop smoothly too when it reach the limits. Any help would be appreciate, even if you don't know how to do it all, any code that can help reach the solution would be really appreciated.

Thanks guys

[flosculus]

your basically using the mouseY property.

you can set an event for ROLL_OVER (MOUSE_OVER, OVER, whatever, i cant remember). then it activates a function to modify position on frame. something like this:

// put this code inside the movieclip, otherwise append the mc ID before the listeners. if this event applies to the whole stage, then just keep the ENTER_FRAME event, and remove the rest.

// this example assumes the code is on the main timeline.

addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onOver);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT onOut);

function onOver(e:MouseEvent):void {
     addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onFrame);
}

function onOut(e:MouseEvent):void {
     removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onFrame);
}

function onFrame(e:Event):void {
     if(movieClip.y < (#y position for maximum && movieClip.y > (#y position for minimum) {
          // sort the tweening out yourself, your looking for the 'easing' property.
          // use the Tween class or download TweenLite.
          moveClip.y = stage.mouseY;
     }
}

flos

[thevibe]

Hi guys, thanks again for the help. I found a way to make the script as I wanted but I am still wondering if I could do something more to ease the end of the animation almost like it was still going on for 1 sec or half, after the mouse has stopped. Here's the script I will be using;

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loopX);


function loopX(e:Event):void
{
var xDist:Number = mouseX - 24000

front_mc.x = xDist * -0.02;

}

As you can see, I made a mistake in my tread, it needs to move on the X axis.
Thanks