We have covered some basic code and some advanced code, here you can locate it all…
Part 1 – Wednesday 20th January 2010
Part 2 – Thursday 21st January 2010
Part 3 – Friday 22nd January 2010
Part 4 – Monday 25th January 2010
Part 5 – Friday 29th January 2010
Part 6 – Friday 19th February 2010
It has been a long time since part 5, and i believe this will be my last one in the ‘series’. I’m not going to do much, just attacking and how to integrate it with the inventory…
So, firstly open up your file from the previous tutorial and create 4 more frames in the player, “attackleft”, “attackright” etc…
Then, insert this new code onto the player…
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Some time ago I published part 4, now i bring you part 5 
. Basically we will learn how to create dynamic tiling, No biggie. To be honest it is a ‘complicated’ subject but hey. You got me
So what is ‘dynamic tiling’ basically we’ll create a tile based engine where we just input some numbers in some arrays and it makes all the backgrounds and stuff.
First things then… Create a movieclip 25x25px with 3 frames, grass, path and water. Now right click it in the library and choose Export for actionscript then change the identifier to “Bricks”. Now, actionscript can read it.
Now the code… In the root timeline add
2 | n = 0 |
We will use this later to count the bricks and aid referencing.
Now all we need is the actual code…
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Creating this was relatively easy, just tim consuming. Hopefully for you lucky readers you will be able to just copy and paste, grrr. Oh well here’s my attempt. Btw, on the above demo you can also ‘sell’ your item. I gotta tell you, there’s alot of arrays in here. Oh how i love em. Just kidding – they do my head in. But enough of me, actually if you want to hear more about me then say so, i might update the about section.
Ok, so to set up your ‘inventory’ create a movieclip, mine is; 50 x 50 px, white with black border. Then two more movieclips / buttons, whatever for the buy buttons. In this tutorial i’ll show you how to make two items to deal with but you could easily do more…
Now place your inventory blocks where you want the ‘inventory’ and name them; “Slot0″, “Slot1″, “Slot2″… Etc (without quote marks). It’s important your first one is “Slot0″ because arrays start at 0?!?. Now, count how many you have, if your last is Slot11 you have 12. And finally, instance name the buy buttons “BuyPotion” and “BuySword”.
NOW, we begin.
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So, you want coins? Let’s begin. To begin this tutorial create a new layer in the player and draw around his feet, make it movieclip instance it as “Hit” and make it’s alpha 0. Now we can begin. Basically all this does it allows us to do hitTesting only when the players feet touch the coin or whatever.
So let’s begin…
Create a circle and call it “coin”. Now let’s take a look at the hitTesting code we’ll be using…
1 2 3 4 | if(_root.coin.hitTest(this.hit)){ score ++ unloadMovie(_root.coin) } |
Line 1 : checks if the coin hits on our ‘feet’ (the hit movieclip at the beginning of this tutorial)
Line 2 : adds one to the score
Line 3 : removes the movieclip
Please make sure to include
score = 0 in onClipEvent(load){
But we want it to work dynamically without hundreds of these hitTests. Reintroducing, the “for” loop. Let’s begin.
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In the previous part we learned about walking and depths, now – running… And collisions.
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To begin the tutorial do the following:
First – Find a sprite sheet and import it into flash or draw the sprites
Second – Create a movie-clip with 4 frames, labelled; “left”, “up”, “right” and “down”
Third – Create movie-clips for each of the animations and place them on the appropriate frames in the appropriate place (feet should be on (0,0), the little + registration point)
Now, let’s begin coding…
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You may be familiar with full flash game tutorials… My last one was the movement one. But, it didn’t have a ‘full flash game’ at the end. Not a proper one anyway. This does. This tutorial ‘group’ will however allow you to make a ‘full flash game’.
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