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Pacman Like Effect (Left Side To Right Side)

Apr 9, 2012 10:50 AM

I would like a pacman like effect when the character goes outside of the left side of the game window then they come from the right side of the window. My character can only move left and right so they would be using the same left and right parts of the window. I need help on the actionscript for this i am using 2.0 on flash 5

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  • Ned Murphy
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    1. Ned Murphy,
    Apr 9, 2012 3:27 PM   in reply to infinitus21
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    You have to continually check the position of the object and when it exceeds the left _X boundary while moving left you just send it to the other side beyond the right boundary.

     
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    2. infinitus21,
    Apr 13, 2012 1:49 PM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    im not too sure how i would go about doing this

     
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    3. Ned Murphy,
    Apr 13, 2012 7:52 PM   in reply to infinitus21
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    Do you have your character moving off to the left?  If so, right after each step of movement you should be checking its _x property to see if it is at a value that puts it off the playing area... just as an example...

     

    character._x -= 3;                               // move to the left

     

    if(character._x < leftboundaryX){      // check if it stepped over the boundary

         character._x = rightboundaryX;    // if so, move it across to the other side

    }

     
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    4. infinitus21,
    Apr 14, 2012 6:53 AM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Thanks a lot for your continued support, it means a lot.

    After a bit of error work-arounds I'll show you my code, because while there are no errors it doesn't seem to work. My character just goes endlessly off the left of the screen.

     

    onClipEvent (load)

    {

        speed = 4;

    }

    onClipEvent (enterFrame)

    {

        if (Key.isDown(39))

        {

            this._x = this._x + speed;

        } // end if

        if (Key.isDown(37))

        {

            this._x = this._x - speed;

        } // end if

    character._x -= 3

    if(character._x < leftboundaryX) {       // check if it stepped over the boundary

     

     

         character._x = rightboundaryX; }  // if so, move it across to the other side

    }

     
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  • Ned Murphy
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    5. Ned Murphy,
    Apr 14, 2012 7:05 AM   in reply to infinitus21
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    You cannot blindly copy code and expect it to work - as stated it was just an example.  You need to define the left boundary and the right boundary values.  You already have the movement code so you don't need my character._x -= 3 line.  You don't want to use "character" at all... you are using "this" instead.

     
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    6. infinitus21,
    Apr 14, 2012 7:08 AM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Alright, I've edited it a bit more, but how do I define the left and right boundary values?

    I'm not sure what to put for them...

    But again thanks for your help, I'm very new to this.

     
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    7. Ned Murphy,
    Apr 14, 2012 11:51 AM   in reply to infinitus21
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    You use the values (_x) of where the left side ends and the right side ends.

     
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