Comments on: Flash Tutorial: Breakout Game Part 2

By: camiecarmela

camiecarmela — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:51:37 +0000

Thanks so much! Great tutorial.
Cheers!
carmiecarmela

By: ben

ben — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:38:54 +0000

hey,
in the part that we have to nest mc_brick and mc_brickHolder, i couldnt figure it out. i follawed the directions exactly but mine didnt look like fig 2 it made it so the ball would go through the bricks like they werent there. i need some help.:sad:

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:07:25 +0000

OMG…. your awesome XD

I made it work..
although i restarted accidently after realizing the bricks didn’t dissappear.. hehe..too much undo

Anyways.. here was MY mistake.
At the step where adding new layers… ughh (3rd image..sry bad explanation)

I did was not in edit symbol mode but in selection mode.

By: cat

cat — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:08:47 +0000

thanks a lot i followed your advice and it works! great tutorials

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:42:46 +0000

Hi Cat,

What that means is you are most likely trying to apply some Movie Clip event code (ie. onEnterFrame) to a symbol that is not a movie clip (ie a button or graphic). If you are following this tutorial and getting that message, you are either applying the code to the wrong symbol instance or you have given the wrong symbol properties to the symbol. Double check you are applying it to the correct symbol, and if so, then you may need to set the symbol properties (right click on the symbol in the Library window and select “Properties”) to “movie clip”.

Hope this helps. Thanks for reading!
- Mike

By: cat

cat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:40:07 +0000

was wondering if anyone can tell me what this means:
Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:51:39 +0000

Hi Bekka,

Sorry for the late response, your email got a little lost in my overcrowded inbox…

I corrected your file and sent you a new one. Everything was working fine, except you only had 1 frame on your brickholder mc, so when the ball hit and played, it didn’t disappear since it was only looping on the same frame. What you needed was the first frame to have your brick, and the second frame to be blank. So, when the ball hit the clip, it would advance to the 2nd (blank) frame, making the brick essentially disappear.

Hope this helps, but if you still have problems, just let me know.

- Mike

By: kyle

kyle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:58:34 +0000

well my bricks will not disappear =[ i can’t email it off any hint what to do? i can’t email it because its on my college game and its like 30mb xD so thats out of the question =[

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:53:17 +0000

Hi Ella,

Sorry you’re having problems, but glad you’re working through them.

Still haven’t gotten a direct response as to why some people are having problems with the bricks disappearing… My best advice is just be aware of instance names (the name of a symbol on the stage) vs. symbol names (the name of the symbol in your library). While you can (and will) have multiple names for the same symbol ON THE STAGE, you can only have ONE name for a symbol IN THE LIBRARY.

Good luck, and if you have any other problems, let me know and I’ll try to help you out.

Thanks for reading!
- Mike

By: Ella

Ella — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:36:15 +0000

i fixed it!!!

new problems have arisen.
but ill figure them out
thanks