Adobe ActionScript is the open source object orientated programming language of the Adobe Flash Platform. ActionScript 3 is a dialect of ECMAScript, targeted for Adobe Flash Player 9 and higher.
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Swap Child and Child's Child
Is it possible to use swapChildren() with a child and a child's child? Every time I try, I get this error:
ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
Why ...
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Blue Karma adventure game class diagrams [closed]
Hello I am building all the artwork for a potential game and I would like to see some examples of point and click class diagrams to give me an idea of what I could also include. Does anyone know of ...
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Using timer to reverse enemy movement in Flash game made with Flixel
I am creating a 2d flash game using Flixel 2.5 in Flash Builder. I am trying to reverse enemy movement on an interval so that they will move back and forth over a set space. I felt that a timer would ...
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Flash game made with Flixel does not appear when using regular zoom
I am having an issue getting my Flash game (made using the Flixel library) to display when I use Zoom = 1 in the call to Super() in the game's constructor.
I have made a map using Dame which is ...
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Virtual Camera preventing correct use of Touch Events
http://www.youtube.com/embed/jkk0k6HvDa4
How come when I try to use e.stageX and e.stageY the virtual camera messes the coordinates up? (watch video)
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Smart terrain generation to avoid unconnected tiles
To make this clear from the get go;
I'm not looking for HOW To randomly generate a terrain (I know I can use Perlins noise for that).
I'm looking for an algorithm that can help with the terrain ...
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AS3 Rect-Rect Collision
Basically, my game has the player's attack hitbox change based on the attack being performed. I tried to make a simple collision test that takes an enemy's coordinates and have it check to see if it's ...
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What are the best practices for Flash / Server communication? [closed]
Most social games (web) these days are in Flash with a lot of server intensive processes. What are the best practices to talk to the server end using flash in the context of social games?
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Use of FlxG.camera.follow to follow a character vertically
I am developing a prototype for a game in Flixel in which a character floats upward continually to traverse the level. I would like to have a "tall" layout for levels and set the FlxG.camera to follow ...
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Is there a way to squash/stretch a sprite based on an angle?
I have a ball that can move along any angle, and I want to squash and stretch it based on this angle.
To be clear, if you dropped the ball down at a -90 angle, the squash would be all along the y, and ...
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Coordinates user taps
I am using e.stageX and e.stageY to locate the user tap, only I have a vcam that constantly changes the view, until eventually off the stage. Is there another way to do this? Like e.SomeMovieclip.x ...
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Smudge and Erase Image using Flash and AS3
I am developing an app where in I have to smudge and erase a portion of the image which is loaded on stage.
The logic I am using is adding two Images on stage one above the other.
I am able to ...
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X and Y values same as width and height? [closed]
I'm trying to make an expandable box in flash. The registration of down and up is to the left. the registration of left is in the middle. This is the code:
down.width -= 10; up.width -= 10; left.x ...
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Hello World with FlashDevelop, Flixel, AS3: uneffective SWF macro
I just started with FlashDevelop and Flixel, and I already have a question. I created this basic hello world:
package
{
import org.flixel.*;
[SWF(width = "640", height = "480", ...
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Increasing height increases width
I have a game, where the user presses a button to spend money and increase the height of a Movie Clip. I use the following: height ++.
The problem: When I test this out, it seems the width ...
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How to determine mouse position outside stage, and center the cursor?
I was wondering if it is possible to have my flash game determine the position of the mouse, even when the cursor is not inside the stage.
My movie clip should move horizontally between x = 100 and ...
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ScaleX and Y for stretching MovieClip
I'm developing a game, and the game has a shop. In that shop there is an option for a house expansion. This is a movieclip that I want the user to be able to spend their coins to increase their ...
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Error 2007 after gotoAndStop [closed]
My most unfavorite errors, error 2007 and error 1009.
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter hitTestObject must be non-null.
at flash.display::DisplayObject/_hitTest()
at ...
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An “AABB Physics Engine” [closed]
I've been working on the physics for my 2D game and for the past two weeks it's been doing my head in. I wanted something a little more complicated than what you see in 2D platformers, but I wanted to ...
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Walk to nearest attackable range node
My game has 3D environment which is partitioned in 2d cells(nodes). I have implemented A* for path finding.
Now I am just breaking my head to how to implement the algorithm to move the hero to the ...
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AS3 UML Tools other than Crocus Modeller [closed]
I have been using Crocus Modeller a lot this past year, and it's been great. It's the first UML tool I've used, and so I don't know how it compares, but it seems to work very well. However, today I ...
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Importing a transparent image to flash [closed]
How do I import an image that has transparent background to flash and give it class and use addChild to show it on the screen? Transparent background should stay transparent.
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Moving player in Box2d without forces
How do I move player with keyboard without applying forces? If I do playerBody.setLinearVelocity(new B2Vec2(0, 2)) it moves the player but when I release the key for movement, the ball is continuously ...
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How could you create climbing movement in a 2D platformer?
Basically what I want to do is have a playable character that is able to "walk" on an organic surface at any angle, including sideways and upside-down. By "organic" I mean I want my levels to have ...
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Orbiting multiple objects evenly around a changing radius
I have multiple objects (circles) and I want to place them in a circle, with even distance between each one, and have them orbit the center of the screen.
If I remove one object, I want the orbit ...
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Use FlxAnim to Animate a FlxSprite in Flixel on FlashBuilder
I am trying to animate a FlxSprite, whose image I loaded from an embedded sprite sheet. I instantiate the sprite like this:
// embedding a png file given a relative path
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Use an external sprite or image file in flixel game in flashbuilder
Is there any way to use an external image/sprite file for the graphic of a FlxSprite instance?
Say I declare my player FlxSprite as follows:
player = new FlxSprite(FlxG.width/2 - 5);
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Change the tilemap shown on stage in Flixel
I am building a simple platformer using Flixel, beginning with the source code from Flixel creator's EZPlatformer . I would like to adjust the level's tilemap when the player sprite enters/overlaps ...
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Flixel level ceases to show on screen
I was following along with the EZPlatformer flixel tutorial(with some of my own modifications), and suddenly find that my level is not appearing on screen. I am unable to detect any changes I could ...
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Socket.io v.9 with Actionscript
I'm attempting to develop an online multiplayer game using Node.js for the server and Flash to display the client.
I've been reading up a bit and have found quite a few recommendations for the ...
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Best practice for organizing/storing character/monster data in an RPG?
Synopsis: Attempting to build a cross-platform RPG app in Adobe Flash Builder and am trying to figure out the best class hierarchy and the best way to store the static data used to build each of the ...
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Tile-based maps in AS3
I want to make a tile-based platformer in AS3.
I want my game to read an external maps file (in xml or json or somethimg similar) to draw a tile-based map.
I've seen loads of tutorials for this in ...
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Zelda like multiplayer combat
I have in mind coding a multiplayer game with a similar combat to zelda's. Since i will use flash, i'm limited to use TCP. My question is, is this goal possible? It's not as fast-paced as some ...
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box2D simulation doesn't work [closed]
has been a while since last time i used box2D, and i needed to make some stuff, and i saw that my simulation don't worked (compiles, but do anything). i haven't been able to even have working the ...
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Stage3D engine with FlashPlayer 10 compatible (no wmode setting) fallback to software Rendering
https://github.com/pshtif/Genome2D/downloads ist the only Stage3D engine with FlashPlayer 10 compatible (no wmode setting) fallback to software Rendering i am aware of.
Unfortunatly they drop this ...
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How do I create a game that runs on Windows, iOS and Android?
I use C++ to create windows games and now I want to step into another other OS like Android or iOS. I'm totally familiar with C++ so I tried to create app for iOS using objective C it was working ...
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Create and use a Button class on AS3.0
I am currently working on a game and it is all going well.
On the shop screen there are several buttons that affect the player's stats for when the player restarts the game.
The button's names (with ...
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Can't click on a button with startDrag() active on stage
I need to know how can I enable mouse click on a button when I have a MouseEvent listener for the stage.
I have an MClip associated with the mouse cursor:
Mouse.hide();
scope.startDrag(true);
And ...
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Stage3D: Camera pans the whole screen
I am trying to create a 2D Stage3D game where you can move the camera around the level in an RTS style. I thought about using Orthographic Matrix3D functions for this but when I try to scroll the ...
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How do I check on non-transparent pixels in a bitmapdata?
I'm still working on my window cleaning game from one of my previous questions
I marked a contribution as my answer, but after all this time I can't get it to work and I have to many questions about ...
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Help needed throwing a ball in AS3
I'm working on a flash game, coding on the time line.
What I'm trying to accomplish is the following:
With the mouse you swing and throw/release a ball which bounces against the walls and eventualy ...
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Flick Kick like game with box2d and flash as3
What would be the best approach for creating a game like flick kick with box2d and AS3?.
To make my self more clear, what i would like to do is to use the physics of box2d in the z-axis, i know that ...
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Best way to generate pieces in match-3 games, and then tracking them?
I've been working on a match-3 style game in Actionscript using Flixel, and so far, I've been able to build the core mechanics of the game, including board generation, piece generation, piece swapping ...
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How to add a ramp in a flash game?
I am a huge novice and this isn't really a programming question, but here I go, say I want to make a game that involves rolling up a ramp like this one:
to move upwards, similar to how it would work ...
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Is ActionScript 3 used by Serious Indie Developers? [closed]
This question is for dedicated independent game developers:
My dream is to be a game developer. I am a senior in high school who has taken Computer Science for all four years. I have used Java the ...
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RTS-style fog of war woes
So I'm trying to make an RTS-style line of sight fog of war style engine for my grid based game. Currently I am getting a set of vertices by raycasting in 360 degree. Then I use that list of vertices ...
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Read an object from compressed file generated from ActionScript 3 [closed]
I have made a simple game Map Editor and I want to save a array that contain map tile info to a file, as below:
var arr:Array = [.....2d tile info in it...];
var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
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Whats the potential for actionscript flash? [closed]
Is flash programming a tool for beginners?
if i mastered flash programming,can i do full option, 2d games or 3d games ,
what are the limitation for flash
if not can you advice me about other tools
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Panning a 3d viewport in 2d direction with rotated camera
I am using below code to pan the viewport (action script 3 code using flare3d framework)
_mainCamera.x-= Input3D.mouseXSpeed;
_mainCamera.z+= Input3D.mouseYSpeed;
Where as Input3D.mouse[X|Y]Speed ...
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Read only array, deep copy or retrieve copies one by one? (Performance and Memory) [closed]
The question is asked regarding an environment with garbage collection.(Java, AS3)
I am writing a level editor using MVC and the view needs to have read only access to the data in the model for ...
