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Side Scrolling

Just a little update post. We’ve got scrollage (remember, you can move the ball with the arrow keys. You might have to click on the game to activate it though). It hit me today that I didn’t need the ball to move, I...

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Making the Ball Rotate

You asked for it, you got it. The ball now rotates. See it rotate I realized that I already am capturing how fast the ball is going along the “x” axis (left and right), and that I could rotate it simply by telling i...

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Sloped Ball Bounce Acheived!

I’ve got the sloped ball bounce working… for angles sloping down to the right at least. But that’s still an accomplishment. I’ll just have to adjust it a little bit for left sloping angles (I think). Her...

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The Ball Will Bounce…

Turns out, the whole problem was that I forgot to actually “rotate” the line. Apparently there is a slope, and then there is a slope. If you draw the line as a sloped line, flash doesn’t consider it sloped. If...

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The Ball Won’t Bounce…

When I purchased “Basics of Actionscript 3.0 For Animation” I assumed that I knew enough actionscript to retrofit it for Flash 8, and that once I got Flash 9 I could benefit from the newer stuff in the book. I may h...

by Christopher McCulloh

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