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» Author: Nitin Tikhe
» Title: Cart
» Description: This Animation Tut is a fun and useful for kids below 15 years. Watch the Flag, Doors, Stick and Horse movements.
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» Title: Banana Swimwear
» Description: This is a banana swim wear interactive catalog we designed and animated in Flash
Initially we set the variable id to 1 and then increment it everytime a new MovieClip is created by the duplicateMovieClip() function.
We also set a condition which resets the id to 1 when id becomes greater than 100. This is done to keep the names of the duplicated clips small.
random() is a function which takes a number as its argument. random(3) will yield either 0,1 or 2. Similarly, random(2) will yield either 0 or 1.
_root["trail"+id]._x+=random(20) is the same as _root["trail"+id]._x=_root["trail"+id]._x+random(20)
Similarly,_root["trail"+id]._y+=random(20) is the same as _root["trail"+id]._y=_root["trail"+id]._y+random(20)
The above two statements randomize the location of the duplicated MovieClips to give a spread effect. You can omit the two statements if you want a simple linear trail.