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JackColby333
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April 30, 2009
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Following an MC

  • April 30, 2009
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I am pretty new to actionscript, and am learning through experimenting with different game styles while reading online tutorials. However, I have been stumped. Here is my dilemma: My game is simple. You are a ball. the arrow keys move you smoothly around my box. if you touch a side, you come out on the other side, a perfect little square of infinity. I want smaller balls to chase after you while you move. I have found many a code to make a movie clip follow the mouse, yet none to make a movie clip follow another movie clip. I have tweaked certain codes for following the mouse to make them follow my movie clip, but that code goes on the first frame of the enemy_mc and it will only apply to one at a time? any help would be greatly appreciated.

note: (I'd rather not have the enemy slow down as it approaches the player, but if it's there then oh well)
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Correct answer kglad

delete the trace() function.  i was using that to make sure the balls were assigned different speeds.

and i don't see an A-F anywhere in my code.

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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April 30, 2009
var chaseBallA:Array = [ball1MC,ball2MC,ball3MC];

for(var i:Number=0;i .lt. chaseBallA.length;i++){
     chaseBallA.speed = 2+ i*Math.random();
}
chaseBallI = setInterval(chaseBallF,40);

function chaseBallF(){
     for(var i:Number=0;i .lt. chaseBallA.length;i++){
          var ang:Number = Math.atan2(chaseBallA._y-player._y,chaseBallA._x-player._x);
          trace(i+" "+chaseBallA.speed)
          chaseBallA._x += Math.cos(Math.PI+ang)*chaseBallA.speed;
          chaseBallA._y += Math.sin(Math.PI+ang)*chaseBallA.speed;
     }
     updateAfterEvent();
}

replace .lt. with <

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JackColby333Author
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April 30, 2009

my bad

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