FLASH: Random Starting of a bunch of MC's

[Darren Critchley]

Ok, me here again, after much playing around and input, I managed to put

between 5 and 25 MC's on the stage at random positions and random sizes

(btw Cheri, I chose 20% sizing as the max because I drew the orignal MC

WAY TOO big)

So here now is the dillema, I want to have each MC start at a fairly

random time, the code below is what I have tried to use, but all MC's

seem to start at the same time.

TotalStars is the total amount of random stars duplicated.

The MC's are labelled Star1 to Star'X'

All Star MC's have been stopped.


Set Variable: "StartTime" = GetTimer

Set Variable: "TimeWait" = Random(2000)+1

Loop While (TotalStars<>0)

      Set Variable: "CurrentTime" = int(GetTimer)

      If (CurrentTime>=TimeWait)

            Set Variable: "Starname" = "Star" & TotalStars

            Begin Tell Target (Starname)

                  Play

            End Tell Target

            Set Variable: "StartTime" = int(GetTimer)

            Set Variable: "TotalStars" = TotalStars-1

      End If

End Loop

Stop


In the designer mode, this code causes an error because more than 20000

loops are completed. The second problem is when compiled, they alll

flash at the same time.

Anybody got any ideas?


Darren.


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