drawing a line

[carpeliam]

I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the programming language LOGO; it's used to introduce elementary school kids to programming by having them instruct a "turtle" to move across the screen and in the process draw lines, shapes, etc.

In my flash video, I'm simulating the turtle's movement. Right now, using a motion guide, I'm making the turtle draw a circle (in LOGO, this would be the following command: [tt]repeat 360 [fd 1 lt 1][/tt]). However, I can get the turtle to move- I just don't know how to make it draw. It's the logo equivalent of having the turtle move without putting the pen down.. nothing is being drawn. How do I get the turtle to draw?

If any of you need to see the project I'm working on to more fully understand it, I can upload it for you.. Thanks all.

Liam Morley
lmorley@wpi.edu

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/

"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.

light the world, and bring depth to the silence."

 

[oldnewbie]

Guess you'll have to draw for the turtle!
Flash will not do it for you!
If you made your .fla available, we could have a look at it!
Upload it to your server, and post it's url.

;-)

 

[oldnewbie]

Just found this writing crayon tutorial:

http://www.virtual-fx.net/tutorials/html/writeeffect.htm

You can download the .fla, and although it was writen for Flash 3, it will import in Flash 5. Might give you some ideas!

;-)

 

[carpeliam]

I threw the movie on the web... it's at <A HREF="

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/gdc_splash.swf"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/gdc_splash.swf</A>

.. I used about 40 consecutive key frames to do it (using basically the idea from the site that oldnewbie suggested in the last post).. without using masks. This isn't a finished movie at all, but you can see the turtle move. Any suggestions? <br><br>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br><A HREF="

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/</A><br>&quot;light

the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;