Duplicating movie clip problem

[Zak]

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
this._x += 5;
}
else if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
this._x -= 5;
}
else if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
_root.fire = 1;
_root.i += 1;
duplicateMovieClip(_root.bullet, "bullet"+_root.i, _root.i);
}
}


This won't duplicate the movie clip bullet, (instance name bullet) anyone have any ideas, its for a shooting game, and it just erases the 1st bullet and makes a new one.

[Zak]

OK, no one answer thats cool!

[Voetsjoeba]

I'm sure you'll find the solution.

[bombsledder]

how about "bullet2" instead of "bullet"

[Zak]

nope i duno i cant fire for some reason, :(

[flash4food]

post the fla with the problem so i can take a look

[Zak]

ok i will here it is. Thanks alot, it seems simple and i remember doing stuff like this before but now its messed up. thanks though :)

[flash4food]

either theres something wrong with the file, or its flash mx 2004 cuz i couldnt open it and i have flash mx

[Zak]

ok i will upload the mx version

[Zak]

here it is

[flash4food]

what the..? still cant open it...

[Zak]

There is a movie clip (instance name "crab") with these actions.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x += 5;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x -= 5;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) {
_root.fire = 1;
_root.i += 1;
duplicateMovieClip(_root.bullet, "bullet"+i, i);
}
}

And then the (instace name "bullet) thing it fires has these actions.

onClipEvent (load) {
this._visible = 0;
if (_root.fire == 1) {
this._x = _root.crab._x;
this._y = _root.crab._y;
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this != _level0.bullet) {
if (_root.fire == 1) {
this._y -= 5;
this._visible = 1;
}
if (this._y<0) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
}

[REEF·]

Originally posted by bombsledder
how about "bullet2" instead of "bullet" This will cause the code to duplicate the bullet only once :).

[flash4food]

like i said before (on ur other thread i think)

u have to replace

duplicateMovieClip(_root.bullet, "bullet"+i, i);

with:

duplicateMovieClip(_root.bullet, "bullet"+_root.i, _root.i);

and that works!!! dont know why didnt u listen tome before

[bombsledder]

yea now that i think of it it would do that. my bad

[Zak]

Doesnt work , sorry guys! maybe try it out for yourselfs it would only take a few seconds to make.