Loop Problems

[childe]

Hi,

I want to emulate a random attack. I have been trying to do this by using an animation in a movie clip which begins invisible. I generate a random number and if the number 1 is generated the movie clip is made visible and the animation plays before going invisible again. For some reason the animation doest play correctly but i am not sure how to fix it. I think its something to do with the loop.

The animation has a stop(); on the last frame and the instance of the movie clip is called attack1_mc

Any help would be awesome.



Frame 1 code:

if (attack1==3) { 
}
if (attack1==1){
}
else { 
   attack1 = 0; 
   attack1_mc._visible = false; 
} 

//attack1 
if (attack1 == 1) { 
   attack1_mc._visible = true; 
   attack1_mc.gotoAndPlay(1) 
} 
if (attack1 == 3) { 
   attack1_mc._visible = true; 
   attack1_mc.gotoAndPlay(1) 
 _global.life = _global.life-1;

}

Frame2:

num2 = random(20) 

//'to hit' check 
if (num2==1) { 
   attack1 = 3 
} 
if (num2 ==2) { 
   attack1 = 1 
}

[childe]

bump.

Anyone?

[finksmart]

Your stop() action is what's stopping the loop. Your only runs the first frame once.

[childe]

Oops, i should have said lolz.

I only want the animation to play through once, but i want it to play through fully.

It seems to be repeating the first could of frames over and over before playing through fully and dissapearing..

[finksmart]

It looks like script is trying to loop, not play once. Oh and I noticed you have the if statement repeated twice for the same condition.

Is it possible to upload the file?