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Quinquefolius
Quinquefolius
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February 16, 2010
Question

Hittest Multiple SAME Movie Clip Entities.

  • February 16, 2010
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By using the attachMovie function, I create multiple entities of the same movieClip. Is it possible to detect collisions from the same, but multiple movie clips (And, with different Linkage Identifiers with each entity of the same movieClip.) ?

Many thanks in advance.

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kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2010

you can detect hitTest() between any two movieclips.

Quinquefolius
QuinquefoliusAuthor
Participant
February 16, 2010

How am I going to refer to the same movieClip using hitTest?

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Rothrock
Inspiring
February 16, 2010

Well you can't really test against the same movie clips. If they all have the same names how would flash know which one was hit? When you attach them you should give each one a unique name:

for(var i=0;i<numToAttach,i++){

  someClip.attachMovie("linkage","newName"+i,1000+i)

}

That is one way, especially if the number of them will remain fairly constant over time. If they are coming and going a lot, maybe you would want to push/remove them from an array and then test against the array.

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