Topic: Second flash experiment

Thanks to krets for letting me see his .fla files for the projectile things he made.

Anyway, I learned a lot of actionscript for this one... I must say I'm not all that impressed, they seem to be faking the object-orientedness in some places... eh. And I couldn't do quite as much as I had hoped. But anyway, here's what I made...
http://www.slimeland.com/experiments/flash/manyslimes2.html

[edit: changed iframe to link]

[This message has been edited by Slime (edited 11-30-2001).]

Stampede!

You got yer gaggle of geese, yer pack of wolves, yer herd of elephants -- what's the term for a whole mess of slimes bounding at you?

(And what part of Krets' projectile project were you able to incorporate into this? )

I think shadows on the ground would really help that.

Yea thats great slime , well done.

I'm going to start flash agian, I did a bit at the end of last year but never really got into it, But I will now tho.

So I will see you guys soon (I hope).

[sorry for the ramble]



Chris C

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Its a better start to flash than I ever had. Have you tryed making preloaders?

1. Less people have Shockwave
2. Its a much bigger download
3. Its much more expensive to buy
4. There's never been anything so far that I've tried to do in Flash that I couldn't accomplish.

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nice!
reminds me of that windows screensaver, Starfield Simulation.

I think you're going to be good at this, I don't expect to see a lot though...

Jason

oh, BTW, my son is absolutely mesmerized by this. Slime could be bigger than Barney! Think about it man.

[This message has been edited by JKMabry (edited 11-29-2001).]

the green ground is getting lighter to the horizon. shouldnt it be the other way round?

hmm... a slew of slimes?

Thanks everyone.

I think there's supposed to be a bit of fog or something; that's why the ground gets lighter towards the horizon. But... are you *sure* it's supposed to be the other way around?

I used kret's project to figure out how to handle the animation. He used three frames, using the first one to initiate the animation, the second to carry out what should happen each frame, and the third to go back to the second (so it loops). In the end, though, I ended up making an empty MovieClip, using the onClipEvent(enterFrame) function to execute code that happens each frame. Sorta. (BTW, I'm pretty sure things like onClipEvent(enterFrame) are *not* valid ECMA script...)

Maybe not, but they sure are handy


Seriously, Flash is frames based, and HTML is not - how *could* you develop something for a time- or frame-based application and at the same time strictly adhere to standards that apply to a non-linear paradigm? Flash is a real funny amalgam of linear frames-bound animation and the all-at-once execution of script-based code more like javascript.

I'm using way too many hyphens here - gotta reign myself in. Okay, I'm not a Flash evangelist or anything goopy like that, but you're going into this with a real negative attitude Slime!!!!! You need exposure to some *real* actionscript!

If you haven't been there yet, look over some of the goodies Colin Moock has in his "Definitive Guide" companion site:
http://www.moock.org/asdg/codedepot/

The downloads are really well commented. There's some mind-expanding stuff here (ooops, another hyphen).

onClipEvent(s) are just extraordinary - they let you initialize things (load), loop things (enterFrame), check for stuff like data received (look at Weadah's dribble) - it's a big ol iceberg, and we're just seeing the tip

Oh, certainly *events* themselves are very important. But the more appropriate syntax would be onClipLoad() or onClipEnterFrame() and stuff like that.

Checking out that site...

Hey! Another good one slime! I love it!