Random frame: To display background

[chockybickyman]

I have a movie clip placed on the first frame within the main timeline.

- The movie clip contains 4 frames, each frame has a different image.
- I want to display one of these frames at random every time the game loads.

- What script would i need to target a random frame within this movieclip?
- Would this script be placed on the main timeline?

Any help, much appreciated
Cheers
Peter.D
chockybickyman@hotmail.com

[Yeldarb]

randFrame = random(3)+1;
yourMovieclip.gotoAndStop(randFrame);

[chockybickyman]

Couldn't get it to work!!!

Is this script applied to the movieclip, or the onclipEvent?

Where is this script applied?

[chockybickyman]

Alrite i got the function to work:

1 small problem: The game loads a random frame now, but keeps scrolling through frames rather than goin to a random frame than and stopping.

Any ideas as to why this happening?

Cheers
Peter.D

[Yeldarb]

Put a stop(); on each frame in there.

[chockybickyman]

Yep did that, didnt stop the random generation at all.

Anymore suggestions??

Perhaps you could make a flash file for me showing the working file, coz it doesnt seem to work.

Is there any other scripts you could recommend, say picking from the 4 movie clips in the library when movie loads.

create a function called bgGraphics
and load these 4 clips at random, bg1, bg2, bg3, bg4

Cheers
Peter.D
chockybickyman@hotmail.com

[Yeldarb]

OH wait, you're saying that the file keeps generating a new frame and going to it? I thought you meant that the movieclip that had the frames just kept playing.

No, I won't make a flash file for you.

Try putting it in an onLoad so it only executes once.

[chockybickyman]

Yep, thats cool, working fine now.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers
Peter.D
chockybickyman@hotmail.com