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For my second coursework in my flash course, I need to make space invaders. Quite simple apart from one thing, the buildings. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could make the buildings be damaged gradually where they are hit, the same as the original game??

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Turbo, you silly boy.........

It was YOU! I thought I could smell something! Get out of our nice clean forum you filthy Scotsman!

I'd already started on the buildings, I sussed it eventually. Cheers anyway guys, oh, btw, I've made Pong for when SR decide to start doing Flash games.

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I would do pretty much the same a Tyla.

Make a building movie clip. Get as much of it as you can into the top layer spread out over 5 frames. Then, on each of other other frames, just have little bits of the building removed/altered. After that all you have to do is advance the movie frame each time.

Oooo, like it. Now this man understands coding in the real world. Perhaps some of you other gimps should take note and listen to this man and stop squabbling about whos pictures are the prettiest.

Anyone can get code working. It takes someone with more understanding to get it working so that it's actually usable.

You could also obtain the same effect buy dividing the building into sections for the demolition and do the variable trick to replace the sections as you go... this will have a lower bandwidth and reduce you load on the stream!!

have say, 5 images of the building, and number them 1 to 5. Then have for each impact the building takes, a variable is reduced by 1, and the building image relating to that number replaces the one that was there.

perhaps...

For my second coursework in my flash course, I need to make space invaders. Quite simple apart from one thing, the buildings. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could make the buildings be damaged gradually where they are hit, the same as the original game??