Creating Random Motion with Flash ActionScripts and Math.random

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = this._x + Math.random()*100;
this._y = this._y + Math.random()*100;
}

What we’ve just done is very simple; we’ve taken the decimal number returned by Math.random and multiplied it by 100, so that now it’s greater than one and could be anything from 0 to 100.

This makes the random motion more timely, but now we run into another problem: the object dives off the stage pretty quickly, and doesn’t come back. In the next step, we’ll make some adjustments to the script that look complicated, but really aren’t.

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