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[davidp]

y, i noticed. mah, i've just put shooting on shift for testing purposes.

[Drew]

There's a menu option in the flash player (when run from the IDE) called "disable keyboard shortcuts."

[davidp]

thanks for the hint drew.


hm, now i have basic movement and player control engine down and i'm wondering how to work with "view" (if such thing even exists in ac3). what i want to do is like have movieclip of a let's say, 800x800 and want a view of 400x400 follow my character. could anyone point me in some direction?

i was googling for views in ac3 but found nothing of a relevance.

[YagerX]

Are you saying that you want to zoom/scale everything up or do you want to only use a section of the screen?

[davidp]

no, i want would like to follow player's character where he goes. like so:

so player moves around movie clip and view follows him. its like i have 800x800 movie clip, but the flash screen is only 400x400 and follows player around when moving on mc.

[bateleur]

You do that in one of two ways:

1) The easy case is where your Flash application is the size you want for the view. In this case, simply set the MovieClip as a child of the root DisplayObject and use its x and y properties to position the MovieClip once per frame via the frame event for any of the DisplayObjects involved.

2) The slightly trickier case is where the view you want is smaller than the Flash application. In this case you need to create a separate DisplayObject to use for the root, add the MovieClip as a child as before, but also add a second child to use as a mask, then set the mask property of the view DisplayObject appropriately. (And don't forget to set the visibility of the mask object to false, or it will be rendered, which isn't what you want.)

[Glaiel-Gamer]

if you mean "camera" then there's no built in camera class or functionality in flash (a weird overlook considering it started off as an animation program, a number of people have made animation tools or libraries for camera's, but it's easy enough to implement that it's not worth it to try and learn a library)

make sure you don't add children to the root or stage and instead add them all in one clip (I usually call it "game").

store your camera values (camx, camy, camrotation, camscalex, camscaley)
then you can make a matrix

var m:Matrix = new Matrix;
m.scale(1/camscalex, 1/camscaley)
m.rotate(-camr);
m.translate(-x, -y);

game.transformMatrix = m;



transformMatrix might not be the right property name, look it up on the livedocs to be sure
also i might have the matrix transformations backwards

livedocs:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/
learn to love that site

[YagerX]

You could cover the excess area with what I assume to be your gui? Although for performance reasons, you might want to check whether certain objects are within view or not and then remove them from the display list.

[davidp]

ok guys, thanks for the suggestions and reply, gonna check the livedocs link and stuff mentioned. appreciate it.