random hits

[albigafatony]

does any1 know how to make it so u hit at random? and does any1 know how to make it so it hits higher at random if u gain certain levels. I was thinking it would be something like u hit between 0-10 at random then when u lvl its 0-15 or something

also how do u get it so the hp doesnt reset when u enter a new room? - nvm i figured this 1 out

And how do u make it so u cant walk throught things. i made it so i couldnt go through a wall but that was by doing _y = _y += 8 or something

[Lui]

This should be found easily on Google (http://www.google.com/), Please search before asking.

[albigafatony]

i did

[Lui]

If you didn't find any, then you didn't look properly.

[albigafatony]

it would be much easier if u didnt keep making up excuses and just told me

[Lui]

Im not making excuses, believe me, at first I kept asking and said I did search really good, but sooner or later, I realised I was wrong.

Dude, what you need coded? I found that before.

Ouch, Pwnt.

[albigafatony]

wtf ru talking about? stop wasting time on my thread

[denacioust]

This should be found easily on Google, Please search before asking.


Thats what these forums are for, asking for help, don't just ignore everyone.


You would do something like hit=random(10+level) Something like that but I'm not entirely sure what you want and my Flash isn't working.
For the wall thing you'll need to use a hittest, and I can't teach you cause my Flash is gone.

[Matt]

Make a button and put this on it.(or something like it)
on(release){
_root.enemyhealth-=random(10)+5//means you will take away 5-10 damage.
}

[albigafatony]

cool thanks


well im gonna go to bed now since i was up all night learning actionscript.
I learned:
how to stop u walking through walls
how to pick up items
how to make ur character set on fire
how to lose hp and get game over when u reach 0

tommorrow i will learn:
how to shoot objects at other objects
how to get my shop thing to work right
how to make the character move easier

[albigafatony]

ok need help again. How do you make it so the max health is 100? coz i made potions that heal ur health but it puts it above 100 (the potions also start going into minus but i think i can sort that out)

[The Brown Cow]

Easy. If the value is greater than the maximum, set it to the maximum.

maxhealth = 100;

// for this example, potions heal 10 health. Change to your liking.
// When using a potion...
health += 10;
if (health > maxhealth) {
health = maxhealth;
}

For stopping negative potions, only allow the player to use a potion if they have more than zero of them.

if (potions > 0) {
// Health increasing stuff goes here
}

[Lui]

Yeah, but Even if the forums are for help, we can't do the game for him...We can't help him with ALL of of his needs.

I never got my answer in the past >.>.

[albigafatony]

all my needs? i only needed help with the health and a few small things

Also how are ppl doing the game for me when i have got:
mapping
walking
healing
losing hp
changing what u look like
picking stuff up

also some things i ask are for different games that i will be making soon and theyre only small things like health or something

[MOOGLEFIGHTER]

Are you trying to make a rpg engine?

[Matt]

Thats what it looks like.

[albigafatony]

i think for this game i will make it 1 of those games where u press spacebar to slash and stuff

[albigafatony]

does any1 know how to duplicate a movieclip at random points like with the walls on the coptor game

[Lui]

Don't double post,
Plus,

all my needs? i only needed help with the health and a few small things

Also how are ppl doing the game for me when i have got:
mapping
walking
healing
losing hp
changing what u look like
picking stuff up

also some things i ask are for different games that i will be making soon and theyre only small things like health or something


...Thats not just a FEW.

[The Brown Cow]

Tch. He's saying that he took care of all of those things himself, which he did.

[Lui]

Ech, yeah good point, anyway, you can might aswell still search it..-.-.

[denacioust]

But this is the forum for Flash Game development. You post here and you can ask for help. If he searches he's probably gonna find his answer through an answer someone else had given for the same question on a different forum.

[albigafatony]

did i ask how to make a duplicate movieclip awhile ago? coz i cant find it here.


edit: woo. just got my shop working. all i had missed out was just 1 little _root

[Lui]

Yeah, don't forget your paths, specially when its on your MC.

Fine fine, I guess the system has changed >.>

[albigafatony]

just wondering. How do i make a hit test thing. I already have 1 but im not sure if its right. ive got:
if hitTest(_root.object) == true for the hit test of an object, but if the object is a circle then it still hits it like a square

[Lui]

Yes you are tight, but though you don't need the == true thing,

if (hitTest (_root.object)){
//Do stuffness here
}


And for the circle to circle collision, go check at the tutorials section on Brown Cow's site, located at http://www.browncowinternational.com/

[albigafatony]

no i didnt want the code for what i should put to make stuff happen(wow i made this sentance badly), but thanks for the correction to the hittest. what i meant was when u select an object on .fla it has a square outline thing and when u use the hittest its like u hit the outline instead of the actual object. im probably not saying this at all well

[Lui]

yes, you mean Circle to Circle Collision detection, just goto the site I said.

[albigafatony]

oh i see. thanks for the help


edit: tried the website tutorial but when i tried making the collision thinkg it didnt work

[Lui]

pm The Brown Cow for help, I don't know much about Circle to circle collision detection.

[albigafatony]

oh i think im starting to see what i have to do now. the only problem is it seems like ill be adding loads more script to it


edit: woo i got the shop working. now u can buy potions for 15 gold each and if u have less than 14 gold u cant buy it so it doesnt go into the minuses. Also now im adding a person and im not sure how to make it so they walk at random times. Can any1 help with that?

[The Brown Cow]

Meh? My tutorial totally works. Just remember to add a radius property to each object involved in the collision.

You could also replace that by just using clip._width/2, which will work in most cases.

[albigafatony]

oh right i didnt think about that. Also now i just want to know how i can save the .fla file and making it so ppl cant just import it into their flash. i know that it wouldnt import the actionscript but i wouldnt want ppl importing stuff i made for some reason

[The Brown Cow]

Looking to put your file online? You want to share the SWF, not the FLA. Publish the movie (File->Publish) and locate the SWF file in the same folder as the FLA. Upload, email, whatever.

The code is compiled, so people can't just read it, and the graphics are all nicely stuffed in there. There are reverse compilers that can read the data out of it, but I wouldn't worry about people doing that unless your game becomes incredibly popular. I've never bothered with it, and I don't think that XGen does anything about it either.

[albigafatony]

yeah i know that i need the .swf file but ppl can import the .swf and steal artwork. The drawings are crap it's just i find it annoying when ppl do that

[Lui]

Place a password on the "Protect from Import option" On the publish settings.
TBC, Do I get a thanks for linking to yar' site? :D.

[The Brown Cow]

Huh, I never knew how easy it was to steal artwork. I'll have to set passwords in the future.

Oh, and yeah. Thanks for the link.

[Lui]

Rofl, I stole a bit of artwork from SRPG2 media, though they were useless for me,
yeah you should set-up some passwords in the future, and Stuart Hart should too.

No prob for zeh linkeh :P.

[albigafatony]

also i havnt done the actionscript for a button to make it go to my site for so long i dont remember what it is. I have put it as:
on (release) {
getURL("www.guthix.tk", "_self");
}
what should it be?

[Lui]

on (release) {
getURL("www.guthix.tk", "_self");
}

Yes its right, you can also place in _blank for a new page or something like that.

[albigafatony]

ok any1 wanna test my game? its the first on the list on the games page of my website at www.guthix.tk (http://www.guthix.tk) i must remind u since im mostly using it to learn actionscript i havnt actually worked on the artwork or made much of a point to the game yet. It's a sort of demo


edit: oh w8 the files havnt uploaded onto the ftp yet. The server usually takes awhile

[Lui]

Yay! Free 2 potions! *Enters room and gets Potions* *Exits* *Enters back and repeats samething*

You have to set the _x & _y's up when you hitTest with the Doors,
like if you were in the store and you go down, you would add to the hitTest code

this._x=Wherever the door is;
this._y=Wherever the door is;

[albigafatony]

you've lost me there

[Lui]

I would say that your map is placed in a MovieClip, and whenever you hit a door or a hotSpot, that map MC would change frames, right?
When it changes frames and like for example your in the middle and the hotspot is in the middle, it changes the frame while your in the middle but the door is all the way to the top.

You getting it?

[albigafatony]

so adding that code makes it so i appear near the door in the room i enter?

[Lui]

Yes, but don't make it too near, as it might trigger the hotSpot.
If you want, I can do it for 1 room for you.

[albigafatony]

do you mean send u the .fla for my game and u add it or you make a .fla file with it working?

[Lui]

Yeah, don't worry I won't tamper with it and steal it, I have no point for that,
Just send it to my email @ luivillarias2004@yahoo.co.nz

[albigafatony]

i'm guessing you wouldnt steal it since u could probably make a way better game than me but can i send an older .fla of the game before i added a load of stuff, but u still enter the areas

[Lui]

Why? Eh, whatever..send it anyway, but now I have to go poopie :D.

[albigafatony]

ok but also can i send it using the forums or should i just use my email address? my email address is red.stalin@gmail.com

[Lui]

Send it with your email account to mine, so that it would be secure that you wouldn't want anyone else touching the file.

[albigafatony]

damn google mail being slow. ok im gonna have to use my old email which is no_drinkdriving@hotmail.com

edit: ok u should be recieving it soon

[Lui]

Alright then, Ill get working on it after I go eat lunch.

[albigafatony]

ok thanks

[Lui]

Oh god, yours is not placed on properly, Ok Ok, I'll fix it LATER when I get the time, this time I will place all the game into one frame and change all your maps into one little MC.

[albigafatony]

ok thanks. It probably is all in abit of a mess since its my first proper flash game

edit: ok its about 6am now and ive been up all night so i think im gonna go to bed for abit

[Lui]

Oh don't worry, the first time I Tried to create a proper flash game and that was when I was eight. it was screwed up too :P.

[albigafatony]

ok im back after a good long sleep

[LizardRob]

how do you know how to make these codes? is it a google search or do you have a website that tells you how to make a stickman game? i would like to know because im going to start makin games, thanks in advance.

[arkhan]

well..there are milions of sites telling you how to script in flash.
but doing it an knowing it..its diferent...

[Lui]

Learning of course, You can't just expect to know everything from Flash when you open up a tutorial...
Well at least thats what I thought at first >.>

[LizardRob]

Ive searched loads on google, got any keywords?

[denacioust]

If you need to know anything just ask us here. Just don't start a new thread for every little problem you get.

[Lui]

First learn the basics of Flash, like MovieClips, Graphics and all those stuff,
when you are ready,
http://www.flashkit.com/
http://www.kirupa.com/

is all I can say.

[LizardRob]

thanks. and denacious, nobody has made a new thread for this.

[Lui]

Lol, denacioust's name has been hard to spell for a long time, but since my stay here, I'm used to spelling right ;).

There has been people making new threads, but don't worry.

Good luck.

[woogala]

damn it. It's me albigafatony i cant get on the forums for some reason. Apparently im banned when i havent done anything

[denacioust]

thanks. and denacious, nobody has made a new thread for this.


I know I'm just making a suggestion. If you need help for one project just keep all the things you need in one thread.


Lol, denacioust's name has been hard to spell for a long time, but since my stay here, I'm used to spelling right


Well thats why I changed it to JIM

[LizardRob]

well JIM, i get what you meant now. im going to keep looking at tose websites, havent found anything to do with games yet lol, but ill keep trying.

[Lui]

Flashkit has alot to do with games, let me just point you to where it is
EDIT:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/

[woogala]

luiv u finished doing that thing with the .fla i sent you? It's me albigafatony but i think i got banned or something.

[LizardRob]

thanks LuiV

i got this code from the website and put in the things i needed to but it didnt work, can you help?;




on(keyPress "") {
[instance name]._x = [instance name]._x - [speed]
}
on(keyPress "") {
[instance name]._x = [instance name]._x + [speed]
}
on(keyPress "") {
[instance name]._y = [instance name]._y - [speed]
}
on(keyPress "") {
[instance name]._y = [instance name]._y + [speed]
}


edited to






on(keyPress "w") {
Symbol 1._x = Symbol 1._x; - 5
}
on(keyPress "s") {
Symbol 1._x = Symbol 1._x; + 5
}
on(keyPress "a") {
Symbol 1._y = Symbol 1._y; - 5
}
on(keyPress "d") {
Symbol 1._y = Symbol 1._y; + 5
}


I think theres something really simple missing but this is the first movement script ive ever done, please help. thanks.