1 Y & + Y = UP
-1 Y & - Y = DOWN
1 X & - X = LEFT
-1 X & + X = RIGHT

which in simple terms is

+y = up
-y = down
-x = left
+x = right.

and it’s good practice. He’s going to get errors if he tries to add framechange/_xscale changes with the x/y translations when a key is pressed

First create your player, you don’t have to give it a instance name since all you’re really doing at this time is making your player move.

Now I want you to convert your player to a movieclip setting its registration point to the middle as in future you wish to add a Hit collision this makes your maze game or whatever it is your making simpler, Once you’ve registered it’s registration point to the middle, I’d like you to go into advanced options and click “Export for Actionscript”.

Now, once your player has been created, copy and paste this code into your players actions or as I like to call it, the code tab.

onClipEvent (enterFrame){

if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
this.gotoAndStop(”LEFT”);
this._x-=5;
}

if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
this.gotoAndStop(”RIGHT”);
this._x+=5;
}

if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)){
this.gotoAndStop(”UP”);
this._y+=5;
}

if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){
this.gotoAndStop(”DOWN”);
this._y-=5;
}
}

Basically what this code means is that when you press the down key for example your character will not only go down, but because we have added. “this.gotoAndStop(”DOWN”);” it will also change turn itself around or just switch the player to the down position which is what we’re going to do now.

Now as mentioned above we’re going to add in the last couple of things to this movieclip. Now double click inside of your player and you will enter the movieclip, in here you could make changes if you feel your movieclip isn’t right.

Anyways back to the fun bit, basically i want you to create 3 more new frames and place the code “stop();” in all of them, Once that is done, Click on each frame and give them names of UP, LEFT, RIGHT and DOWN, Note THIS IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU TYPE “LEFT” IN CAPITAL LETTERS IN THESE FRAMES AND PLEASE ONLY DO ONE FRAME AT A TIME WITH A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

now with your frames set up, Invidually click on a frame, lets say up and click the tool
which looks like a square with registration dots all over it and rotate your player on each frame to the direction of the instance names which were added to those frames if that makes any sense.

After you have added all of the directions to the respective frames then test your movie and have fun.

If you have any questions feel free to send me a comment on my youtube page

www.youtube.com/12markinlove12

I’ve been getting a syntax error for ages and I couldn’t figure out why.

But your suggestion solved it!!!

I know you will probably never read my reply but THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SUGGESTION

You stopped me from quitting flash forever.