Optimization Tips

[Ironclaw]

I wish I know as much as all of you do. My game could without doubt be xx% faster. Most of the code I'm using are so clumsy.

In one of my badguy MCs I have on the first keyframe this code which loops till it hits the "guy" (the hero), when guys is hitted it goes to the labeled frame "random"

keyframe 1 that loops:

if (_root.guy.hitTest(this)) {
	gotoAndPlay ("random");

code on the random labeled frame:

f = [78, 112, 134, 172];
	r = random(4);
        frame=f[r];
	      gotoAndPlay(frame);

78=highkick, 112=highpunch....... (yeah I know, why dont I use labels instead of numbers??... donno )


I have a little problem which I have solved but I think it can be made much shorter. You see all the keyframes in a row marked green...[attached picture).. All of them are the same, they are just copied. The code on one of them are: (the same for all of them)

if (_root.guy.highkick.highkick.hitTest(this)) {
	this.scores.gotoAndPlay("score100");
	scores._xscale=this._xscale;
	_root.panel.score += 100;
	gotoAndPlay ("death4");
	
} else if (_root.guy.lowkick.lowkick.hitTest(this)) {
	this.scores.gotoAndPlay("score100");
	scores._xscale=this._xscale;
	_root.panel.score += 100;
	gotoAndPlay ("death3");
	
} else if (_root.guy.punch.punch.hitTest(this)) {
	this.scores.gotoAndPlay("score200");
	scores._xscale=this._xscale;
	_root.panel.score += 200;
	gotoAndPlay ("death1");
	
} else if (_root.guy.lowpunch.lowpunch.hitTest(this) and _root.score eq 1000000) {
	gotoAndPlay ("nutpunch");
	
} else if (_root.guy.lowpunch.lowpunch.hitTest(this)) {
	_root.panel.score -= 100;
	this.scores.gotoAndPlay("score-100");
	scores._xscale=this._xscale;
	gotoAndPlay ("nutpunch");
	
} else if (_root.guy.jumpkick.jumpkick.hitTest(this) and _root.bonus eq 12) {
	this.scores.gotoAndPlay("score5000");
	scores._xscale=this._xscale;
	_root.bonusmc.gotoAndPlay(2)
	_root.bonus = 0
	_root.panel.score += 5000
	gotoAndPlay ("death2");

} else if (_root.guy.jumpkick.jumpkick.hitTest(this)) {
	this.scores.gotoAndPlay("score300");
	scores._xscale=this._xscale;
	_root.bonus += 1;
	_root.panel.score += 300;
	gotoAndPlay ("death2");
	
} else if (_root.killallenemies=="on") {
	gotoAndStop ("kill");
}

I had to put this code on ALL the frames in a row otherwise when guy kicks or punches the badguy, nothing happends.



If anyone of you understand what I mean (I know I don't), please explain how to only use this code once instead of alot of keyframes in a row..



ehh, thanks