First time here? First time here? Newsletter Signup Newsletter
651326 Members and growing! | Flash Jobs
Search tutorials
Author: Siddharth
HitTest With Irregular Shapes

HitTest With Irregular Shapes

Hi! This is my first tutorial in FlashKit. I hope you will like it.
HitTest is very important for creating games. In Flash, there are two types of HitTest. I will be concentrating on the one that takes three parameters: myMovieClip.hitTest(x, y, shapeFlag)

An example ...


Suppose you are creating a space shooter and you want your bullets to hit the exact spot on your enemy and not only the Bounding Box. Here is what you do:

1. Create the bullet, it could be a small rectangle facing upward. Convert it to a MovieClip and name it weapon.
2. Create an irregular shape. It could be anything - maybe two circles combined together.
3. Convert it into a movieclip and name it target.
» Level Intermediate

Added: 2006-03-18
Rating: 7 Votes: 3
(10 being the highest)
» Author
Studying in College, 19 years old
» Download
Download the files used in this tutorial.
» Forums
More help? Search our boards for quick answers!

Comments

  • There are no comments yet. Be the first to comment!

  • You must have javascript enabled in order to post comments.

Leave a Comment
  • Your email address will not be published. All fields are required.
Featured Flash FLA
» Author: S.Saipriya
» Title: Flash Fire Effect
» Description: This tutorial explains about how to create Fire Effect in Flash of Actionscript 2.0.I hope this tutorial helps you!
Featured Sound Loops
Image for equalize

Audio Player

» Author: Aidan Crouzet-Pascal
» Title: Falling Star
» Description: This loop is a cool sounding, E minor loop.
Latest Font
» Author: Fábio FAFERS
» Description: I created this font for free use. Everyone can apply it in personal or business texts. Its free, but I want to be communicated in case of business use. Donations are accepted to keep the project of free fonts alive! Thank you all
Featured Sound Fx
Image for equalize

Audio Player

» Author: Brandan Paulin
» Description: Epic sounding loop with Brass, Percussion, Strings and Winds. This is actually part of a Loop Pack called the Coming where you can download the rest of the loops that go with it FREE from my website.