hittest action performed once only? 1

[janinja]

Hello,

I've made a game and set an action so that the score increments when two movie clips collide:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.sleigh.present)) {
var /:lost = number(/:lost)+1;
}
}

But I'm finding that instead of incrementing once only, it continues to increment all the while the clips are colliding, resulting in the score incrementing by 2 or 3.

Does anyone know a simple way around this?

thanks

ninja : )

 

[prasadalone]

Set a variable when it's hit:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    if ((this.hitTest(_root.sleigh.present))&&(!sleighHit)) {
        var /:lost = number(/:lost)+1;
        sleighHit = 1;
    }
}

 

[frozenpeas]

That was posted by myself, not prasadalone.

I hate that forum bug. frozenpeas

 

[prasadalone]

ya it was not posted by me its tek-tip bug

 

[janinja]

Thanks Frozenpeas, that worked. But I found that it only did it once, and then once the sleighit var had been defined it wouldn't work again.

In the end I worked around the problem by telling the colliding movie clip to skip the rest of the frames of the collision and carry on.