I'm back! :D

[nàme]

yay! testing is fun!

[Gaz]

Try this:

numtotest = 3;

for (i=1 ; i <= numtotest ; i++) { 
   if (_root["hit"+i].hitTest(_root.ball.ballHit)) {
        xspeed = 0;
        yspeed = 0;
        _x = 192;
        _y = 27;
        _root.score--;
        _root.lives--;
        if (_root.lives<1) {
            _root.fadeoutfail.gotoAndPlay(2);
            _root.ball.gotoAndPlay(2);
        }
    }
}

That should test aganst _root.hit1, _root.hit2 and _root.hit3. If you want to test more just increase 'numtotest'

Originally Posted by NiallTL

Ah, true, very true. Never actually thought of that. Thanks again.

Next question!

My character has a lot of hittests to manage, as it's a navigate ballgame sort of thing. The trouble is, I have loads of code, just repeats changing the instance name.

Snippet:

if (_root.hit1.hitTest(_root.ball.ballHit)) {
        xspeed = 0;
        yspeed = 0;
        _x = 192;
        _y = 27;
        _root.score--;
        _root.lives--;
        if (_root.lives<1) {
            _root.fadeoutfail.gotoAndPlay(2);
            _root.ball.gotoAndPlay(2);
        }
    }
    if (_root.hit2.hitTest(_root.ball.ballHit)) {
        xspeed = 0;
        yspeed = 0;
        _x = 192;
        _y = 27;
        _root.score--;
        _root.lives--;
        if (_root.lives<1) {
            _root.fadeoutfail.gotoAndPlay(2);
            _root.ball.gotoAndPlay(2);
        }
    }

etcetera through all the ones, hit1, hit2 etc etc etc.

I was wondering if there is any way to merge hits, like so I could have something like:

(_root.hit2, hit3, hit4.hitTest(_root.ball.ballHit)) {

And so on, so I don't have humongous code.

Any way to sort this? Thanks.

[NiallTL]

Oh joy again!
You are truly a lifesaver Gaz, thank you so so much, you will get credited - a lot :3
Thanks again. If I have an y more questions I'll post 'em here

[Gaz]

no probs

[NiallTL]

Here I am again with a brand new problem
Each level is programmed on a single frame each, so I can't use a stop(); code, I'd like to be able to have it so that when you press P it pauses the game, so it pauses the music, character, everything. Then when you press P again it unpauses. Sort of like in metro siberia underground > Salomonsson.se
Any help please? Thanks

[Gaz]

Originally Posted by NiallTL

Here I am again with a brand new problem
Each level is programmed on a single frame each, so I can't use a stop(); code, I'd like to be able to have it so that when you press P it pauses the game, so it pauses the music, character, everything. Then when you press P again it unpauses. Sort of like in metro siberia underground > Salomonsson.se
Any help please? Thanks

There's no easy solution I'm afraid you've just got to look at how you've done all the individual functions etc. + figure out how best to stop/restart them.

[NiallTL]

Aw shoot.

I can get it to stop all the variables working on the character when the key is P, but I can't get them to start again when I press it again. Is there any way for it to detect a second keypress?

[Gaz]

Originally Posted by NiallTL

Aw shoot.

I can get it to stop all the variables working on the character when the key is P, but I can't get them to start again when I press it again. Is there any way for it to detect a second keypress?

Use the same method you detected the first with, if you've moved to a new frame remember to make sure the keypress detecting code/movieclip is there too.

This is one of those things that feels like it should be simple but can turn out to be a total pain depending on how you've coded the game. I don't think I've ever made a pause button

[NiallTL]

Nevermind, I think I've got it working. Thanks for the help.

[nàme]

now we test?