Jesse Stratford

Jesse lives in Melbourne Australia and is the Cofounder and webmaster of http://ActionScript.org. Once a full-time Flash enthusiast, teacher, author, freelancer and speaker Jesse's now leads a double life -- management consultant by day, http://ActionScript.org director by night. He enjoys participating actively in community and the wider Flash scene when he has time.

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These examples have all dealt with the _x (X position) only, but _y is just a easily manipulated. Our very first example showed this:

Now the circle desperately chases our mouse in both directions (vertically (y direction) and horizontally (x direction) and all I did was change the controller commands to:

if (_root._xmouse>_level0.circle._x) {
 _level0.circle._x = (_level0.circle._x+10);
} else {
 _level0.circle._x = (_level0.circle._x-10);
}
if (_root._ymouse>_level0.circle._y) {
 _level0.circle._y = (_level0.circle._y+10);
} else {
 _level0.circle._y = (_level0.circle._y-10);
}

ie. Exactly the same as the previous example, but with a duplicate cause for _y which is just the _x clause where every "_x" has been replaced by a "_y".

Good huh? And easy too no less. Many of you will want to replicate the original Yugop effect in which the further from the center of the stage you go in any direction, the faster the movie moves. This is very simply done by adapting the source above. Remember that faster movement is achieved by simply increasing the number of pixels added to or subtracted from the _x or _y property of the clip. I'll let you figure that much out yourself though. You've got to start somewhere! If you havea ny questions please post them on the forums rather than emailing me directly.

Jesse Stratford is the Co-Master of ActionScript.org and a freelance Flash developer and teacher. He is based in Australia and enjoys all things Flash.

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