Flash Character Movement




  Tutorial Instructions



1. Create a person or object and convert it to a movie clip
You can draw whatever you want: a circle, stick figure, square... etc. Just select it, right-click convert to movie clip.

2. Click on the movie clip to edit the actions of your movieclip
The following actionscript should be added to your movieclip.

onClipEvent(load){
    speed = 7;
    jspeed = 0;
    jumping = false;
    startY = this._y;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
    if(jumping){
       this._y += jspeed;
       jspeed++;
       if(this._y > startY){
          this._y = startY;
          jumping=false;
       }
    }else if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
       jumping = true;
       jspeed=-10;
    }
    if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) this._x += speed;
    if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) this._x -= speed;
}


3. Test out your movie
This is just to show you how to move left right and jump, you can improvise other stuff :).