Comments on: Making a MovieClip Face the Cursor

By: BK

BK — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:41:38 +0000

Thanks Awesty I’ll mention you and this code in the credits.

By: RDB

RDB — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:48:08 +0000

Thats easy, just make whatever u want to shoot a button. When the player moves the mouse over it, the character obvisouly points towards it.

By: awesty

awesty — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:03:48 +0000

I have never tried it on a pocket PC but I think you need to use AS Lite, which is not what I used in this tutorial.

By: chelion

chelion — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:49:39 +0000

Have I just done something wrong or does this not work on Flash for Pocket PC… think its flash 7. I get errors about the { and } signs.

By: awesty

awesty — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:56:40 +0000

I will try and make a tutorial for that soon.

By: gartman

gartman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:23:55 +0000

i am makng a shooting game
so how would you make it shoot in the direction of the gun
(the movieclip facing the cursor)

By: smile_g

smile_g — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:58:46 +0000

I pasted the code and made exactly what you told. my man moves but it looks to the opposite direction of the cursor. he looks left when cursor is on the right its funny lol.. thanks

By: awesty

awesty — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:41:19 +0000

You could hide the cursor, with mouse.hide();

By: val

val — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:21 +0000

hello,

i did your tut. and made a nice bee wich follow the mouse. thank you.

and now, i would like the MC replace the cursor.
then, when the mouse go to right or left, the bee seems to go in the same direction…

i tried to put a startDrag on the clip, but it cancel the action of your code…

do you have an idea to make it works?

thank you
(i have flash mx2004, soon flash8)
(i’m from france, that’s why, my strange english…)

By: awesty

awesty — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:20:07 +0000

@RBD07: Yes.

@redfeatherraven: Yea, I took a while to get used to coding on the frame, but it is so much easier then clicking all over the stage. Now alot of the time I dont even have any MC’s on the stage, I just attach them all through AS so all I have to worry about is that one frame.

@akskater100: When you post the code in some # might show up so get rid of them.
Otherwise just type the code into flash.