game enemy movement

[whitegriffin]

i have this game that i mad but i want the "bad gus" in the game, when crossing acrcoss the screen have an up and down motion i tried editing the movie clip but i need some action script to say wehn enter ___x cord play frame label _____ ill attach the fla file cause i got some weid scripting soo here it is:
game

[red penguin]

....fla....too...large....to....DL......

you say you want random y movement from a clip moving from left to right? Is this what I understand?

[Jesse]

As far as I hear it you've got the movement going but you want to be able to check if the object is yet at a set _x. Is that right? That's a simple getProperty loop...

[whitegriffin]

ok so i got these enemys that scroll across the screen but they olny can move in a straight line along the x cord i want it so they still move along the x cord but i want them to have an up and down mothion when the enter the screen (making it a little harder

[Jesse]

OK here's some code I threw together to make an MC move up or down:

onClipEvent (load) {
	this.upper = 180;
	this.lower = 280;
	this._y = (upper+lower)/2;
	this.yDir = random(10)>5 ? 1 : -1;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (upper>this._y) {
		this.yDir = 1;
	} else if (lower<this._y) {
		this.yDir = -1;
	}
	this._y += 4*this.yDir;
}

The upper and lower variables define the top and bottom _y. You can make them random...

[whitegriffin]

thanks a lot that worked perfect!

[red penguin]

Beat to the punch by the master himself....

mr. smarty pants...putting something like that in this forum without explanation...isn't that a violation of the rules?

heheh

it's a hoke, a hoke I say!