Help!!

[jbjb1228]

I have been trying to figure out how to build something like the helicopter game.

I cant figure out how to control the movieclip (copter) with mouse.down. I have flash 8, and i've gotten this
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Mouse.DOWN){
copter = _root.Mouse._x
ps. i know this code is probably completely wrong

If any1 can help me i would really appriciate it, im completely stumped, and i cant find anything online on how to do it.
Thanks

[Bigmutha]

Originally Posted by jbjb1228

I have been trying to figure out how to build something like the helicopter game.

I cant figure out how to control the movieclip (copter) with mouse.down. I have flash 8, and i've gotten this
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Mouse.DOWN){
copter = _root.Mouse._x
ps. i know this code is probably completely wrong

If any1 can help me i would really appriciate it, im completely stumped, and i cant find anything online on how to do it.
Thanks

I'm no expert scripter either, but I think that will make the movieclip named copter got to the mouses X position. So it will slide along a horizontal line staying at the same height. I found a tutorial once on how to make a game like that. Give me a few mins and I'll go find it again.

Ok, the tutorial wasn't exactly what I thought it was, but I managed to get this piece if script which will make the copter behave a little bit like the actual one.

gravity = 0.1;
thrust = 0.25;
yspeed = 0;
 xspeed = 5;
smoke_interval = 10000;
frames_passed = 0;
engines = false;
_root.attachMovie("ship", "ship", _root.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:150, _y:200});
ship.filters = new Array(ship_filter);
ship.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(engines){
        yspeed -= thrust;
        smoke_interval -= 0.25;
}
    yspeed += gravity;
this._y += yspeed;
    angle = Math.atan2(yspeed, xspeed);    this._rotation = angle*180/Math.PI;
    frames_passed++;
if (frames_passed>=smoke_interval){
        sm = _root.attachMovie("smoke", "smoke"+_root.getNextHighestDepth(), _root.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:this._x-2, _y:this._y});
        sm.filters = new Array(smoke_filter);
        sm.onEnterFrame = function(){
     this._x -= xspeed;
     this._alpha -= 2;
     if(this._alpha<=0) {
     this.removeMovieClip();
     }
};
        frames_passed = 0;
     }
};

[Gaz]

bigmutha is right the code you are using looks more like it's intended to make the helicopter go to where your mouse is (although it's not quite right in any case). Is that what you are aiming for or do you want the helicopter to travel upwards when the mouse is clicked (like in the game copter)?