Adobe ActionScript is the open source multiparadigm language supporting object oriented, imperative, structural and functional programming and used within Adobe Flash Platform. ActionScript 3 is a dialect of ECMAScript, targeted for Adobe Flash Player 9 and higher.
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How do I make a FlxSprite do something if it is falling or rising?
I want to make my FlxSprite play an animation when it falls or rises. Something like:
override public function update():void {
if(player.movingUp)
player.play("animUp")
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2D Change Velocity Based on Distance XY While Moving Parabolic Arc
What I'm trying to achieve is that the entity moves in a parabolic curve, and no this has nothing to do with gravity before you ask.
I give the entity a target position which it should move to, but ...
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How can I minimise memory thrashing when doing vector math in JavaScript or ActionScript?
Please note that a similar question has been asked before in the context of C#.
Say I'm building a 3D game in Javascript or Actionscript, and doing a lot of 3D vector math. In current libraries, ...
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Customizing ease functions
I have this function that acts as a ease in:
protected static function easeIn(ratio:Number):Number
{
return ratio * ratio * ratio;
}
Where ratio is a value between 0 ...
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Advice on adding RGB values
I am trying to make a flash game (I don't want to say too much).
Part of the game is mixing colors. The problem with this is that these are colored wooden tiles and at first I was going to have each ...
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Moving objects in a circular path, and also moving the whole group
I have 8 elements distributed in a circle, with a common center.
All of them move along a circular path, just like the poster in this question asked:
Moving an object in a circular path
This solves ...
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AS3 - Increase tint as health decreases
I'm working on a game where enemies continually spawn with more and more health based on how long you've been playing. As the enemies take damage, I'd like their sprite to get darker and darker, until ...
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Adding random IsoSpirite to the IsoSence
I am trying to add different type of objects to a scene using as3 Isolib.
I have all of my objects ( each object has different class ) in an array and then pass them using for loop to a temp spirit ...
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addChild does not work in Flash [closed]
Have been trying to understand this problem for two weeks.
When I use addChild(movieclip) in the Main.as file, it works. When I try to use it in a function in a separate class file it does not work.
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Start a MovieClip inside IsoSprite
I am using as3Isolib and have some IsoSprite added to the isoSence. Those isoSprite contain a MovieClip. I want that when I click on the isoSprite, the MovieClip will play. I tried something like:
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Animate/Interpolate and wait for completion.
I'm implementing a blackjack game in flash and so far the logic is fine but there is no animation for the cards so they just appear and disappear which doesn't look very pleasing to the eye. I want to ...
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AS3 random events using a timer
I'm making a game for an assignment at university.
The game I am making requires random household appliances around a house to "turn on" at random times.
The player must run around the house turning ...
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Flixel FollowPath problems
So I have recently been using flixel for a while, but this is the first time I have tried to use the pathfinding functions. While this seems pretty straight forward, I am having a issue with it. I am ...
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Switch fullscreen resolution at game launch with Adobe AIR
I have a game built in AS3/Flixel that is turned into an executable with Adobe AIR. What's the best way to allow multiple fullscreen resolutions? We have already made the game work for multiple ...
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AC3 FlashPunk Console doesn't show anything
I am making my project using flashpunk , I knew that it has a good console gui to give feed about states of the game , however when I tried making it appear with the FP.console.enable() method it ...
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Preloader not working as Expected
I am currently working on two games One uses Starling and other does not . I first made a prelaoder for non-starling one with multiple frames technique and then tries to reuse it with starling powered ...
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In AS3, is it necessary to remove the children from a parent who is also being removed?
My point is this:
addChild(parentMC);
parentMC.addChild(child1);
parentMC.addChild(child2);
If I want to then remove parentMC from the current container, is it necessary to also remove child1 and ...
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AS3 - Unit Collision [duplicate]
I am trying to make a bird view strategy game where you Control units by clicking on them and then right click to make them move to the mouse. The problem is that when you select multiple units and ...
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Framerate on AIR for Android - Actionscript 3
I am currently working on making Android apps using AIR for Android.
This is a sample file and package that I am running to test the FPS and Memory usage of my application while it is not even doing ...
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Using box2d with starling
In my game I have a Main class in which i am initializing starling framework by passing Game class like below
myStraling = new Starling(Game , stage);
In the game class I have Instances of Welcome ...
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change the position of f3d objects randomly in action script
I have a f3d object and have different boxes to place the parts of the f3d objects.When i click on the button change the position of the boxes randomly. How it possible?This is the code for random ...
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isometric movement
I'm developing an isometric strategy game in flash using the Starling framework.
I wanted to know what is the best way to move units about the isometric grid, and to render them the right way.
Now ...
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Change DisplayObject's bounds in Flash/AS3
I'm developing some platform-like game using AS3 and Flash CS5 for animations. I've already done most of the mechanics now, and I've starded to drawing characters and animating them. But some problem ...
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Controlling depths of objects in Flash
I am trying to change depths/ layers of my gameobjects inside the game using flash. To be more specific, I have a horse object and a fence object. I set them up initially on stage and the horse layer ...
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multiple flash timeline animations with actionscript
I am not new to AS3 and Flash but new to Flash timeline animations and controlling them with AS3. Had posted a similar question last week but the solution did not work. Hope someone could help me out ...
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How should I manage states in my game?
I can't understand what design pattern I can take advantage to build an intro screen, help screen, level select screen, game screen, game over screen, altogether.
I can make one in AS3, but the code ...
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Multiple animations on flash timeline
I am working on a game inside Flash with ActionScript 3.
I have a horse game object with different animations for Walk, Run and so on. I have never worked with different animation types with Flash ...
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Mouse follow precision in flash
I am trying to implement a simple movement for one of game objects in flash/ AS3. I am using mouseX, mouseY for my object to follow the mouse pointer. It works fine but the problem is the precision of ...
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How do I combine matrix transformation with non-uniform screen scaling in Flash?
I'm using a Flash transformation matrix for affine transformation.
I have a rectangular image being rotated and scaled (in 2D). There are two sets of scaling variables, ScreenScaleX and ScreenScaleY, ...
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integrating leaderboard from Newgrounds in flash game [closed]
I have made flash game and I want to show a leader board in that game.
I have uploaded my game to kongregate.com.
I have made a scoreboard there with the name of overLoadScore (overload is the name ...
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How can I save a global high score for all players in AS3?
I am developing a game in which I want to make a scoring system where the global high score is stored and shared by all players.
I am using Flash and ActionScript 3. Until now I've used ...
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Effective content manager on AS3 Flash
In my game more than 600 images and 200 sounds. I'm try organize effective images and sounds manager for fast access. This is a good approach?
public class Images
{
public static var ...
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Shared Object Not saving the level Progress
I am making a flash game in which i have a variable levelState that describes the current level in which user has entered I am using SharedObject to save the progress
but it does not do so
first i ...
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AS3 eventListener not working [closed]
I am making a game with as3. I have a Mian Class.In its main function i am putting a movieClip stored in a variable named btn and attaching an EventListener to it for CLICK which envokes a function ...
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AS3 Starling in Fullscreen Mode cuts off most of the screen
I have a mixed mode (classic Flash Renderer + Starling) AIR AS3 project that I'm switching to fullscreen with
stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode=StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL;
// Swtich to ...
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Big game in Flash - how to create levels structure
I'm building a game in Flash similar to the structure of Angry Birds or Cut the Rope (where there are a number of "rooms" and unique levels created within each "room").
The user gets through the game ...
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Do Java and Actionscript use OpenGL?
As far as I know there are only 3 base graphics libraries on Windows, the GDI, OpenGL and DirectX, is that correct, so that means that Java, Actionscript and all language use one of these 3 libraries ...
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Why can't I swap fixtures on collision in Box2D?
I'm trying to swap the fixtures associated with a body after colliding with a specific obstacle.
I can listen to the collision event by extending b2ContactListener. I tested it with a trace and it's ...
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How can I manage an animated UI from ActionScript?
I'm trying to code a game of Poker in AS3, using Flash Professional CS5 (although I try to keep as little code as possible in the .fla).
When a player bets, for example, I need to be able to show an ...
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Collision detection circle-segment-segment
I've already implemented collision detection in my game loosely following this tutorial, which works great, but I realized there's one major flaw.
The player and the enemies are circles, while the ...
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How to create a grid based on random shapes?
How to create a "grid" using actionscript like the image below?
Basically you have an area of 1100x615 which should be filled with shapes that could be rotated and scaled...
Collision detection ...
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Fixed timestep with interpolation in AS3
I'm trying to implement Glenn Fiedler's popular fixed timestep system as documented here:
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
In Flash. I'm fairly sure that I've got it set up ...
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Dynamic entities using classes and objects
I'm trying to create a program which involves the creation of several characters/entities.
At the moment I have a Base Entity class an Entities class and a Main class. I can handle one entity ...
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Make a lives display in HUD, Flash AS3 (not text!)
I've been searching the internet all day and I can't find the answer I'm looking for.
In my HUD I want to use orange dots to represent lives. The user starts off with 5 lives and every time they die, ...
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CDK (as3) false positives when using it with array elements
I'm having problems when using the CDK (Collision Detection Kit) with elements in an array. It keeps getting me false positives of collision.
I'm making a game in which the player controls a “ship”, ...
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What is a good approach for making a relationship between the HUD and Environment?
What is an elegant / common way to build a relationship between the game scene / environment / world and the HUD that usually sits on top of it? I have thought about this for a while, and though there ...
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Calculating wall angle and sliding in 2D
Got a new project recently where I don't use any physics engine, but it requires some basic phyiscs. Basically it's a 2d "top-down" game type. I would like to add a smooth wall collision which feels ...
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How does MMO flash games works? [closed]
I want to know how does MMO flash games work, for example: Dofus and Club Penguin.
I want to know if by ony using Adobe Flash and ActionScript you can do MMO games, or if there is other way to work ...
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Movieclip to spawn in in a set perimeter
I like to make a movieclip randomly spawn in a set area. But theres a little more to it, usually you'd have something like the X pos set to something like 250 (say the centre) and the Y pos set to be ...
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How can I get my Flash game to scale to all mobile device screen sizes?
I want my application to automatically scale its size depending on the screen size. I want my application to fit any screen size automatically. I am making my application for mobile devices, how can I ...
