Actionscripted Cursor Effects Tutorial

[The Pirate]

Here's a tutorial I did to teach you guys a neat little actionscript trick. The whole tutorial is done in flash and is found below.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/jayshostaccount/AScursortut.swf

(the yellow character in the last frame is Clyde, the fullbody character from a webtoon I have in the works)


I take it this should go in the actionscript tutorials section, if a mod could be so kind as to move it for me ;)

[Ninja Stick2]

great tut good job this needs to b in the official area it should b moved

[and.we.all.fall.down]

Bravo! My cursor pwns now! Thanks mate.

[laaack]

Sorry, a person who picked up their copy of Flash cannot follow along that well.

It took me a while to learn how to make a movie clip, and you lacked the fact that you must press F8 to make a movie clip.

Besides that, I did learn a few things.

[maggot789]

NIFTY! lol that was pretty cool. too much code though.

[Ninja Stick2]

i went through insert to get a movie clip and i had fun making blood with it rotating balls exploding gernades its endlees posibilitis

[StickShaz]

wicked tutorial :D gonna make 1 now

[stick picklez]

cooooooooooooooool

[770nogarD]

Nifty tutorial. I'll proably try that out some day. Now now, sime I'm busy trying to design my own tennis ball cannon. But some day...

[ShadowsofYesterday]

The tutorial didn't work for me. At best, I got a funky laser light show. It only showed the first frame of the "effect", and it would only load one of the "effects" at a time.

What in the Hell am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Here, let me show you what I'm talking about.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4407/examplenotworkingyq3.swf width=400 height=125

[FrAnKeH]

Well either the pirates AS is wrong.... Or you're doing it wrong.
I'm going with the latter.

[Sunder Forge]

The tutorial didn't work for me. At best, I got a funky laser light show. It only showed the first frame of the "effect", and it would only load one of the "effects" at a time.

What in the Hell am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Here, let me show you what I'm talking about.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4407/examplenotworkingyq3.swf width=400 height=125
DId you type out each line? if so then you probally mistyped something.

[ShadowsofYesterday]

Well either the pirates AS is wrong.... Or you're doing it wrong.
I'm going with the latter.
I copied the tutorial step by step. I even went over it again and again to make sure I'd done everything right. Still, that was the best result I could produce.

Grubber: No, I copy/pasted directly from the tutorial.

[Gavel]

I copied the tutorial step by step. I even went over it again and again to make sure I'd done everything right. Still, that was the best result I could produce.

Grubber: No, I copy/pasted directly from the tutorial.

Try it without the glow. What exactly is the individual white drop looking thing supposed to look like when it's animating?

[Scorpioxxx]

There is a slight error if i remember, read through the code and you'll find it.

[vertman]

Awesome tutorial, but 1 part is missing. I can create a thing to multiply to numbers using input boxes and dynamic text boxes. The tut worked but i don't have 0 knowledge.

[Gavel]

Awesome tutorial, but 1 part is missing. I can create a thing to multiply to numbers using input boxes and dynamic text boxes. The tut worked but i don't have 0 knowledge.

Aaaaaand your point is?

[ShadowsofYesterday]

There is a slight error if i remember, read through the code and you'll find it.
I thought there might have been, but everyone was praising the tutorial and talking about how awesome it is.

Besides, I'm honestly not that great with ActionScript. I mostly just steal other people's scripts and save them to a text file, so I'll have them for reference whenever I need them.

[ShadowsofYesterday]

Sooooo...

Anyone gonna help me with this?

[NCz]

ya it would only play the first frame of my animation wats up with that?

[axle_exil]

you'know....i was about to odda punch you at the start but you got my attention and made me not be dumb :Smile:

[ShadowsofYesterday]

This tutorial would be more helpful if it actually worked.

Help plz.

[Garuda]

Dude this is confusing, how do you make a movie clip without anything to turn into one?

[Scorpioxxx]

Dude this is confusing, how do you make a movie clip without anything to turn into one?

Use the 'insert new symbol' option, or, just turn something into a movieclip and delete it once inside then continue using the empty MC. If anyone really needs the correct code i'll see if I can find it/fix it.

[Karthago]

i wondered about the same thing like metal flower...

AND WHAT DO I HAVE TO EXPORT IT AS? .GIF? .SWF?!

this is no tutorial for someone who hasnt got ANY experience with actionscripting... like me! maybe its the lateness (3:10 AM) or its the fact that i have to translate it in my language...

but i think that was too difficult... im totally defused and hate actionspripting like never :D

[Gavel]

i wondered about the same thing like metal flower...

AND WHAT DO I HAVE TO EXPORT IT AS? .GIF? .SWF?!

this is no tutorial for someone who hasnt got ANY experience with actionscripting... like me! maybe its the lateness (3:10 AM) or its the fact that i have to translate it in my language...

but i think that was too difficult... im totally defused and hate actionspripting like never :D

GIF files use no type of code. So I don't know why you'd even think that. Just use your head and stop trying to overcomplicate things.

[azam_me91]

Neat Stuff...Nyfti

[Raffi]

Eh, it doesn't work.

[Scorpioxxx]

look, im gonna go get the WORKING code right now, its a simple error that anyone with actionscript knowloage could figure out, I'll edit with the right code in a min.

EDIT:

Here, try to figure out whats different:

In alpha 0 thing

onClipEvent (load) {
nmber = 2;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;

nmber++;
_root.effect.duplicateMovieClip("effect"+nmber, nmber);
_root["effect"+nmber]._x = this._x;
_root["effect"+nmber]._y = this._y;
_root["effect"+nmber]._rotation = random(360)+1;
if (nmber>=60) {
nmber = 2;
}

}

in frame

Mouse.hide ()

[Raffi]

It works now^^ thx.

Can't really be bothered to figure out the code =(


Screw you, Raffeh.

[nicknam4]

This is awesome! I can't wait to try!

[ShadowsofYesterday]

its a simple error that anyone with actionscript knowloage could figure out
Yeah, well I don't actually know the first thing about ActionScript. I just steal other people's work and pretend I know AS.

EDIT: Okay, it works now, but say I want the cursor to pass behind another object. How would I make it go behind the object, instead of showing up in front of it. Simply putting the cursor on a lower layer doesn't seem to do the trick, and putting it inside a movie clip on a lower layer, and changing "root" to "this" doesn't seem to work either.

[Scorpioxxx]

onClipEvent (load) {
depth = 61;
_root.effect.duplicateMovieClip("thing you want"+depth, depth);
_root["effect"+depth]._x = add x here._x;
_root["effect"+depth]._y = add y here._y;
depth2 = 62;
_root.effect.duplicateMovieClip("2nd thing you want"+depth2, depth2);
_root["effect"+depth2]._x = add x here._x;
_root["effect"+depth2]._y = add y here._y;


You get the general idea, you just spawn everything by AS and giving 'depth<number>' any unique number lessthan than 100. I set up 2 for you, excluding the instance names and x/y co-ords.

Change the cursor code to;

onClipEvent (load) {
nmber = 101;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;

nmber++;
_root.effect.duplicateMovieClip("effect"+nmber, nmber);
_root["effect"+nmber]._x = this._x;
_root["effect"+nmber]._y = this._y;
_root["effect"+nmber]._rotation = random(360)+1;
if (nmber>=159) {
nmber = 101;
}

}

[Alpha23]

Very Nice Tutorial Pirate! :)

Very 'Nifty'

[Raffi]

NO MORE NIFTY.



















































































Nifty.