Actions Script Help - Flash Starfield

[meowmix]

Hi I was wondering if someone could help me with this one.

I'm following this tutorial http://orangesplotch.com/blog/flash-...ield-tutorial/ that is about creating a flash starfield.

And it's all good, but what I want to do is be able to have multiple "star" movie clips that fly out (i.e, different shapes and different colours) I was wondering if any one could help me with the action script to do this.

I'm

[whispers]

multiple as in different looking clips?

the color shouldnt be an issue..

but hanvent looked at the code to see how its done.. (for adding in multiple clips to use)

[Nig 13]

replace this line:

var curStar:MovieClip = universe_mc.attachMovie("star", "star_"+i, i);

with this:

shapes = ["star", "square", "circle"];
randomNum = Math.round(Math.random()*shapes.length);
var curStar:MovieClip = universe_mc.attachMovie(shapes[randomNum], "shape_"+i, i);

where in the shapes array, you add the linkage names of the different movieclips in your library. For different colors, after the last line above, add this:

randomColor = new Color(curStar);
randomColor.setRGB(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);

Hope this helps

[meowmix]

replace this line:

var curStar:MovieClip = universe_mc.attachMovie("star", "star_"+i, i);

with this:

shapes = ["star", "square", "circle"];
randomNum = Math.round(Math.random()*shapes.length);
var curStar:MovieClip = universe_mc.attachMovie(shapes[randomNum], "shape_"+i, i);

where in the shapes array, you add the linkage names of the different movieclips in your library. For different colors, after the last line above, add this:

randomColor = new Color(curStar);
randomColor.setRGB(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);

Hope this helps

Thanks for the info Nig_13, worked perfectly!

Cheers again!

[swak]

You could use as to generate the stars to begin with. Isn't too hard to do.

[Nig 13]

@swak: that's not what he wanted. He simply wanted to add more movieclips to the star moveclips with random properties, and besides, drawing that start with drawingAPI would take a lot more time and piles of code, and most importantly, precision to draw the star correctly by imagning it in your mind as you code it. Why go through all that hassle, when you can just draw a star using the polygon tool?

[swak]

hmm, I was thinking of just a circle for the star. Oh well. Sorry for not reading properly.