Back again, my pet tadpoles (they still haven't grown into frogs yet!). This time I am going to explain the actionscript that makes them move, turn and run from the mouse. Firstly, heres an example of what they do (move your mouse over them and watch 'em swim away): Read on…
I have given my tadpoles their first lesson in survival, they now know how to run away from danger! Previously they had two basic behaviours:
They now have a third behaviour which is to move away from the mouse when you move it over them. If they get stuck under the mouse they wriggle around until they can get free!
Introducing my new pet tadpoles! Over the coming weeks I intend to train them to do things...like make tea, or write PHP. They're not very evolved yet though, just swimming around blindly.
This is very cool, thank you for sharing. I can't wait to try it
Hi, I tried this out and am having trouble getting it to work. Am I supposed to have 2 different layers, one for tadpole and one for mouse_mc? Also, my transparent pixels don't seem to be attached to my mouse…
Hi Sherry
They can be on separate layers, or both the same layer, it shouldn’t matter. Did you give the movie clips instance names in the ‘properties’ panel?
Sam
Hi there, just wondering if you’d have an tips on converting this to AS3. I’m very new to Flash and have been trying to do it all day!
Thanks in advance,
bex.