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Creating Random Motion with Flash ActionScripts and Math.random

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Do the same with the y position (vertical):

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

You now have basic random motion, but it’s not going to do you much good at the moment because the motion is rather on a rather minute level, increasing by less than a pixel in each frame. Let’s move on to the next step to correct that.

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