Hittest Help Please {!}

[tongxn]

Can anyone here suggest a code so that a Hittest is done on a finishing line and a car? P.S. The user drives the car around the track, Hitting several checkpoint(or Hittested-lines) then hit the finishing line... which stops a count-down clock.
So basically I got a car instance name "car" and 5 different lines named (L1, L2, L3... L5) and a finishing line instance: "Fini1"

Thanks for any imputs,
Merry Christmas guyz,
Tongxn

[Osteel]

Hey tongxn,

Here's the code for a basic hitTest. You would put the following code on your car itself:

code:

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  if (this.hitTest(_root.finishLine)){

           trace("FINISH");

 }

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Now all you have to do is modify it so that it counts and makes sure all the checkpoints have been touched by using hitTests to see the car ran over them

[tongxn]

what does trace do here?

[tongxn]

uh oh.. I don't think it works, i put this action into the main timeline:

if(car.hitTest.c1)
//c1 is checkpoint 1
l1.gotoAndStop(5)
//l1 is the light,

is there something wrong? or should I use "_root.l1.goto....."

It's nearly finished guys I only need to get over this hurdle to complete this project!

[Osteel]

Hey,

A trace is just used to see if something works, it'll just display something in the output window during run time debugging. For example if you put: trace("hey"); it'll display the word 'hey' in the output window.

As for your code, if its in the main timeline it will have to look a little something like this:

code:

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onEnterFrame = function (){

       if (_root.car.hitTest(_root.c1)){

            _root.l1.gotoAndStop(5);

}

}

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Give that a try and happy new year !

[tongxn]

ah thanks a lot Osteel!

[Osteel]

No problem tongxn,

Good luck with your project

[tongxn]

oh no i don't think it's properly working...

[tongxn]

i can't get the function up

[tongxn]

oh wait - YES! - i got it!