karicus Wrote:thankyou, that does explain a great deal. So _root. is what is on the stage at that time. Any variables NOT defined on the stage at that time can not be called upon as _root. and even then I would have to define the location of the _root.variable? Such as char (in your example)? Any variable travelling over multiple frames is _global.? Im understanding it better now thankyou. I had to make my buttons as separate movie clips: Ie each button is a movie clip and the button is within the movie clip. Therefore, I can use the same movie clip over and over and they change image depending on Krystal's distance to the location (ie, Her face if she is there, paw prints if she is close enough to travel to and blank if she is too far away), then within each frame of the movie clip, the buttons lay. Click the button she she will either go back to the same location or move to the next one. Dont know if thats explaining it well enough but it works so Im well pleased
thanks for the help.
I did have another idea: Inventory. For that ill need to know how AS handles lists and to parse out a AS list and then display a certain icon for each inventory item. Something im merely considering is all. Not really sure what she is going to do with an inventory though. Maybe find dildos? *laugh* Im thinking of not making it a fighting game, after all we all want to see her have sex with these creatures not beat them off. Rush! works really well tho, very good idea. I may incorporate a small element of fighting, in certain areas but im not sure of the context. Truth be told I'm still very much hunting for ideas to go into my game. Id like it to be funny, sexy, have a bit of a story and plot and some puzzles or quests. Kind of like those very old dungeon games: "Your in a dungeon, there is a door to the right and a small cucumber to the left. do you..a.use the door.. b.." you get the idea. haha.
When you make a variable with _global, such as "_global.number", you can access that value just by using "number". It basically reserves that variable name so that any change to it changes the original value. When you make a variable with _root, such as "_root.number", you can only access that value by using "_root.number". When just "number" is called inside a movieclip, it treats "number" on its own as a new variable, and changes to one won't change the other. Hopefully this example will help:
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_root.number2 = 5; //we're assuming this is inside a movieclip. If this code was on any frame on the main stage, this would be the same as having "number2 = 5;"
_global.number1 = 10; //no matter where you have this, having "number1" anywhere is now the same as having "_global.number1"
number1 = 1; // the value of _global.number1 is now 1
number2 = _global.number1; // the value of number2 is 1, while the value of _root.number2 is still 5
number2 = _root.number2; // the value of number2 is now 5, same as _root.number2
_root.number2 = number1; // the value of _root.number2 is now 1
_root.number2 = number2; // the value of _root.number2 is back to 5 again
When you make a variable to use with _root, you can't access it until it's created, so if you have an 'if' statement that refers to say _root.number and the first frame that _root.number is created in happens after the 'if', then you'll just get 'undefined' as a result (which you can still use because 'undefined' is the same as 'false' in 'if' statements). Flash is pretty flexible, so you can still assign a value to _root.number at any time without having to preload it on the main stage, and it will work in any reference of _root.number thereafter.
An inventory list is easy, but long. You can either make a basic list of variables and keep adding to the list (using values of 'true' or a number to represent having the item), or you can make an array (see here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary059.html). An array would work better for long lists and sorting, but for short lists making a new variable for each item is less confusing, IMO.
Inventory icons can use the same movieclip and just change the icon being showed by playing two frames of the movie on repeat (the first frame plays into the second, and the second sends it back to the first). When a different item is put in the slot, you can have a formula that tells it which two frames to play next.
Beyond that, if you make more sex scenes, people will be happy (or at least me anyway
). Oh, and the movement speed could stand to be bumped up a bit. >_>
