Comments for Michael James Williams

Comment on Learn ActionScript 3 by Following this Simple Avoider Game Tutorial by Dean

Dean — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:28:10 +0000

yeah,i'm sure its in there,i dont know if its my FlashCS3 prob or something else.

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Comment on AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial, Part 2: Multiple Enemies by Kristjan

Kristjan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:26:09 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I thought of that at first as well, but couldn’t figure out how to check for collision between two enemies. I think I know how now, but I already got around the problem by adding a delay between spawning two enemies. My solution wouldn’t work well in an avoider game, but does in my game. Anyway, thanks again for your help.

Comment on Learn ActionScript 3 by Following this Simple Avoider Game Tutorial by Michael James Williams

Michael James Williams — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:03:51 +0000

Hey Dean,

That basically means it couldn't find the Enemy.as file in the /classes/ directory. Is it in there?

Comment on AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial, Part 2: Multiple Enemies by Michael James Williams

Michael James Williams — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:03:03 +0000

Hey Kristjan,

I would suggest that, as soon as you spawn a new enemy, you check to see whether it is colliding with another enemy. If so, simply move it to another place and check it again. Keep doing that till it's not colliding with any others. Make sense?

Comment on Multidimensional Arrays in AS3 by FIRECREATURE

FIRECREATURE — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:54:21 +0000

Very useful post. Thanks.

Comment on AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial, Part 3: Game Over by pedodleche

pedodleche — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:35:11 +0000

I am using cs5….it works on another computer though, so I am writing code on this one, testing it in the other one after advancing quite a bit since I don’t have much access to the other computer

Comment on AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial, Part 12: Garbage Collection by ayumilove

ayumilove — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:28:25 +0000

@James Ebert:

Make sure your stage is either: 1) not deleted 2) stage is assigned with an object. 3) the container has stage

If your stage is deleted, Flash obviously could not find the stage, let alone the property of that stage.

If the variable stage is not assigned with an object, Flash could not associate that property to that variable as well.

If you are referring to an object but that object does not have a stage property, then this error will also occur. For example, MovieClip has stage, but if you made your own custom class, it will not have stage, unless its extended from MovieClass.

Comment on AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial, Part 2: Multiple Enemies by Kristjan

Kristjan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:37:01 +0000

Thanks a lot for this great tutorial! I’ve seen very few tutorials describe good programming practices in AS3 so well.

I’m making another game based on this and can’t figure out a solution to stop enemies from spawning on top of each-other. Got any ideas? I have tanks and other vehicles as the enemies and it doesn’t look very realistic when they are stuck together.

Comment on Learn ActionScript 3 by Following this Simple Avoider Game Tutorial by Tutorials which helped me. « sampadders

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Comment on Learn ActionScript 3 by Following this Simple Avoider Game Tutorial by Dean

Dean — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:31:49 +0000

Hello MIchael,i got a problem on how to link the class to Enemy graphic,when i tick the pencil icon it says "A definition for this class could not be found in the classpath,so one will be generated in the SWF file upon export'.I'm pretty sure i follow all the instructions properly,help me!!!