Animation

  1. Home
  2. Computing & Technology
  3. Animation

Creating Random Motion with Flash ActionScripts and Math.random

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

5 of 8

Now to add the randomizing function that changes the x position every time the movie enters the frame:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = this._x + Math.random() ;
}

To break this down simply, what this script does is tell Flash to check the x (horizontal) position in pixels of the symbol referenced by this, and then add the random number generated by Math.random to it so that it moves fractionally to the right.

5 of 8

Index: Creating Random Motion with Flash ActionScripts and Math.random

  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
  3. Part 3
  4. Part 4
  5. Part 5
  6. Part 6
  7. Part 7
  8. Part 8

Explore Animation

More from About.com

Animation

  1. Home
  2. Computing & Technology
  3. Animation
  4. Flash Animation Tutorials
  5. Creating Random Motion with Flash ActionScripts and Math.random

©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.