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Anonymous
February 28, 2011
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Randomly Choosing from a List of Movie Clips.

  • February 28, 2011
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Hi Everyone,

I've taken a few Flash classes, but this is the first I've really been exposed to hard coding things into the stage area.

I'm working on a game, and I need to have the game randomly choose one of four movie clips to add to the stage after a given event. (ex: Mouse click)

The four movie clips are BoostUp, BoostDown, BoostLeft, and BoostRight.

I'm not really sure where to attack this from.  Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
March 1, 2011

Place the items you want to randomly select from into an array and use the Math.random() method to select one of them.

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Anonymous
March 1, 2011

Wow, arrays are amazing, that makes sense, thank you very much.

One last thing, here is my snippet of code for the boosters, what should I be putting in the function call to make the Math.random work with the addChild(); command?

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var boostup:MovieClip = new BoostUp();

var boostdown:MovieClip = new BoostDown();

var boostleft:MovieClip = new BoostLeft();

var boostright:MovieClip = new BoostRight();

var boostArray:Array = ["boostdown", "boostup", "boostleft", "boostright"];


stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Cycle);

function Cycle(Evt:Event) :void {


}


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Would it go:

function Cycle(Evt:Event) :void {

addChild(boostArray.Math.random();)

Or am I completely off the mark here?

Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
March 1, 2011

Try:

function Cycle(Evt:Event) :void {

     addChild(this[boostArray[Math.floor(Math.random()*boostArray.length)]]);

}

I don't guarantee my parentheses/brackets line up properly, but I think they are okay.

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