Comments on: Flash Tutorial: Elastic Object Follower

By: mattc

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:31:37 +0000

I’ve sent you an email response so you can email me back with the details, but I’m posting a comment here as well, so hopefully help anyone else with the same problem. The best way to troubleshoot something like this is to put a trace statement in the FollowMouse function. This will let you know if the function is running every frame. If you put leader in the trace, you can see if the leader is properly linked to the MovieClip. Usually with something like this it is a problem with leader being undefined. Here is a sample trace statement to show you what I mean:
trace ('leader: ' + leader);

By: roger_u

roger_u — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:49:07 +0000

By the way the mouse follow Action Script 2.0 works great running CS3 (v9.0). Thanks!

By: roger_u

roger_u — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:46:07 +0000

I am also trying to get an object to follow another object and its driving me crazy! I created a static movie clip labeled it ‘leader’ in the properties menu and attached it to a motion guide. Then in the script I changed mouseX and mouseY to leader.x and leader.y, no luck.

I added frames in the actions layer to match the duration of the leader object still no luck. Tried inserting gotoAndStart(1); to the end of the script, no luck. I’ve been searching all day and I feel like I’m so close. This is killing me! You would think this would be a simple beginners AS trick but there is no documentation anywhere.

Any reply would be greatly appreciated.

By: Daniel Elffriend

Daniel Elffriend — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:07:26 +0000

dude.. this is awesome… really—-really—really— COOK little fella…
wonderful script….

thanks a alot… ur awesome…

By: le_foosh

le_foosh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:44:26 +0000

Hi,

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong but I can’t get the follower to follow anything but the mouse!?

I tried the ‘leader’ code but it wont follow anything but the mouse…?

Help!?

Kris

By: Sacen

Sacen — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:10:13 +0000

Hi there

I got it working, I converted the newmouse to MC and on the newly created MC I click on linkage then in the Class fill enter : follower and Base Class fill: Follower

Base Class refer to the Follower.as file

Thanks for the code again, this really helped alot

Cheers
Sacen

By: Sacen

Sacen — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:41:32 +0000

Hi thanks for the as code, I’m not sure how you put it together with AS3. I need to make a MC and linkage it? I’m really new to AS3 but my project require to use as3, any help will be great

Thanks in advance

Sacen

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:04:42 +0000

FUNtastic. I learned soooo much.

By: Abel

Abel — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:56:22 +0000

Fantastic!

I learned at least three new things about 30.0 in this short tute…!

By: mattc

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:49:32 +0000

Thanks for the update. I am not sure what is causing the error, but if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I’d like to get this resolved so future scripts won’t have the same bug.