FLASH: collision detection

[dave evans]

I'm trying to develop a simple car racing game. I have the 'car' mc moving

at the bottom of the screen as a mouse tracker confined to a rectangle one

pixel high but the width of the screen. I need to find a way of telling the

car mc to go to the crash sequence of the timeline when it collides with

oncoming mc's (trees etc).


I've tried a loop detecting if the pointer is near the oncoming mc's, but it

doesn't work because the car mc is confined to the bottom of the screen but

the pointer can be anywhere....


Any help would be a life saver...or a point in the direction of a

tutorial....I've tried mooks and the flash academy tutorials, to no avail.


Thanks,


dave

davepetspark [dot] com

mrhumantorchhotmail [dot] com

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