Randomly playing multiple instances of movieclip AS3

[Fuure]

I have made a movieclip of an eye, which is set to play a blinking animation at random intervals. I want to place many instances of that movieclip on the stage, where they're all being played at different times. But if I put multiple instances of the clip on the stage, only one will play. How do I have many instances playing at the same time?

I haven't used flash for years so please explain simply if you can~

stop(); var eyeTimer = new Timer(1000 + Math.random() * 1000);
 eyeTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, blink);
 eyeTimer.start(); 

function blink(evt:TimerEvent😞void { Timer(evt.currentTarget).delay = 1000 + Math.random() * 1000;  
trace( "triggered!" ); eye.gotoAndPlay(1); 
}

[Robert Mc Dowell]

did you give a different name to each mc?

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

I myself would rather prefer to put a simple randomization code inside of a container Movie Clip containing two eyes -- considering that they have to blink at the same time.

In this way, you'll won't have a headache trying to reference each Miovie Clip in different frames, nested in different timelines, using tweening, and so on.

Preview:

Code:

gotoAndPlay(Math.ceil(Math.random() * 150));

FLA download:

animate_cc_as3_random_blink.zip - Google Drive

Regards,

JC

[Fuure]

Would love to download the assets but the link doesn't work. Also I'm animating individual eyes, not connected to each other.

[JoãoCésar]

I'm really sorry about the link!

That's the second time this week that Googgle blocks a link of mine.

Anyway, I edited my comment with a valid link this time! I hope it can be helpful.

[Fuure]

cries quietly bc i've been at this all day and your suggestion really got me closer than anything else, thank you so much, i appreciate it so much !!!

[JoãoCésar]

Excellent! You're welcome!