COMPUTER GRAPHICS - Elmwood Park High School

Creating Continuous Movement:

Create a new movie in Flash. Set the width and height of the movie to 550 by 400 and the frame-rate to 24 fps.
Create a way for your name to stop and restart. Beyond the right edge of the stage, draw a rectangle. Make sure the rectangle is about the height of your movie and 20-30 pixels away from the movie stage:

[ the rectangle has been drawn beyond the right edge of the stage ]

After the rectangle has been drawn, select it and press F8. Convert to Symbol. Select Movie Clip and press OK. Select the rectangle (now a movie clip) and give it the instance name "block":

[ give the rectangle the instance name 'block']

Type your first name and convert it to a Movie Clip named circle.

[ the convert to symbol dialog box ]

After you made the name a movie clip, select the circle and insert the following Actionscript:

Copy and paste the following code into the Actions dialog box:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) { //generating movement location = this._x; var i; i = 1+_root._xmouse/5; if (this.hitTest(_root.block)) { this._x = (Math.random()* -100) + 25; this._y = (Math.random()*350) + 25; } else { this._x = location+i++; } //clips are scaled according to y-mouse; this._xscale = 40+_root._ymouse; this._yscale = 40+_root._ymouse; }

[ copy and paste the above code into the movie clip's actions dialog box ]

There must be seven (7) instances ot the symbol on the stage. Each one must be in a different location within the height of the stage. Each instance must be a different size. The seven instances must contain these colors: Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta, and Black

[ randomly arrange the movie clips in different colors/locations ]

Ensure that a few are outside the boundaries of the stage on the left side. See the image above; notice the movie clips in the gray area outside the stage. This is done to ensure a seamless transition without any pauses or gaps in the animation while the circles are being "respawned" on the left.
Submit the FLA and SWF file to the dropbox.