unfortunately, i am using different stage dimensions and i am unsure of which numbers i need to change to get the ball to stay within in the stage.

at the moment, the ball goes too far off to the left and up, and not far enough right.
also, when you lose a life, the ball sometimes appears right over the ‘bricks’ so that they are automatically hit and disappear.

any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks and great work!

Thanks for the tip. Iam gonna try it out right now. Excellent site you have here. Keep up the awesome tutorials.

Dominick

Yes you can do a hitTest inside an mc, you just need to add that mc instance name to the hitTest string… so your code would change like this (where “mc_name” would be your movie clip instance name that contains the “pad” mc):

if ((this._y<=5) || (_root.mc_name.pad.hitTest(this))) {
yspeed = -yspeed;
}

Hope this helps!

Mike

if ((this._y<=5) || (_root.pad.hitTest(this))) {
yspeed = -yspeed;
}

is causing problem since pad is not on the root is there any way to do hit test inside of MC.

After a quick look at this, I think what you need is to set up a simple hit test… so, on the “ball” instance, you can add the following code:

if (_root.mc_playarealeft.hitTest(this))) {
_root.alleywaygbsidehit.play();
}

This assumes that “mc_playarealeft” and “alleywaygbsidehit” are the INSTANCE names of the clips on the stage. Again, just a quick look at it, so you’ll have to let me know if this helps your problem.

Thanks for reading!
Mike