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And now I have coding questions, because this is something I've never worked out: how do you generate an infinite number of fangirls? Is each one a new movieclip? (Or is it the same fangirl cycling through?)
The fangirls' crazy smiles are spot on XD Amazing work!
Don't know if you've ever seen/played a 1980s Game and Watch game? They used LED screens. None of the graphics could overlap as the LED displays can't display overlapping graphics, and only displayed black. All the coloured elements were static on separate layers.
The fangirls are nested in an Array, which has to be declared using:
var fanGirl1: Array;
and created in the game startup function "init"
fanGirl1: new Array();
With Arrays you have to use push to start the movieclip. I think our lecturer told us to cycle through the array backwards.
There are 5 movieclips (Fangirl #1-#5), each one had its own array. Generating the fangirls looked something like this:
function generateFangirls():void {
var chance:int=Math.ceil(Math.random()*3);
if (chance==1) {
var whichFangirl:int=Math.ceil(Math.random()*5);
var newfanGirl:MovieClip;
if (whichFangirl==1) {
newfanGirl=new FanGirl1();
fanGirl1clips.push(newfanGirl);
newfanGirl.x=512;
newfanGirl.y=384;
[More curly braces there]
I could send you the code if you like.
I think the concept of arrays is covered in the 3-hour tute from uni we had to watch in order to build a lot of our game [link]
I always suspected it had something to do with push! Ah, I always wondered how you would name the new movieclip generated, but of course, you don't have to, since it's referenced by the variable. (Er, I think?
Thanks heaps for that explanation, I think I sort of (almost) get it now
I can't really remember too well, but I believe "fanGirl1" was just a MC which held the fangirl symbol in the first position (obviously in all the different positions, there are 5 frames in that MC), and "fanGirl1clips" was the AS Linkage for that MC which enabled it to be pushed via the array.