Isometric Game: Displaying the Timer

February 24th, 2010 by Brian Leave a reply »

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If you have missed a couple of sessions, check here.

If you’ve been here the whole time, let’s continue.

  1. Open up the Flash file we’ve been working on.
  2. Edit your hero movieclip.
  3. Add a textbox above the hero’s head.
  4. Change the textbox from ‘Static’ to ‘Dynamic’.
  5. For the instance name, type scarytimer.
  6. For the Var:, type _root.scarytimer. (_root lets us know that the variable exists on the main level of the stage and not just privately with the movieclip).
  7. If you don’t want the timer text to be selectable by a mouse, make sure the ‘Ab’ button is not selected.

A variation on this would be to create a new tile with the timer on it and spread those tiles throughout your maze.

Your dynamic text settings should look something like this:
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