Tweening multpile objects

[Guest newdevide]

Guys, i have about 20 mc's that i multipled using 'for' method

how do animate them without writing each name individually?

I look at the greensock example;

 

timeline.insertMultiple( TweenMax.allTo([box1, box2, box3], 1, {tint:0x90E500, scaleX:0.2, scaleY:0.2}), timeline.duration );

 

but the prob is it's only 3 mc's, and it's simple using it (i think).

 

and since i used for to duplicate each mc i have to use getChildByName("name0") to direct me to the object and then write it again and again and again.

 

Is there a better and easy way? Thx

[Carl]

while you are "multiplying' your movie clips inside your for loop add a line of code that will push a reference to that movie clip into an array.

you can then use that array in your allTo.

 

i don't know what code you are using but it could look something like this

 

var movieclips_arr:Array = []

for (var i:int = 0; i   var newMC:MovieClip = new WhateverTheClassOfYourSymbolInTheLibraryIs();
 addChild(newMC)

movieclips_arr.push(newMC);
}

 

timeline.insertMultiple( TweenMax.allTo(movieclips_array, 1, {tint:0x90E500, scaleX:0.2, scaleY:0.2}), timeline.duration );

[Guest newdevide]

Thx for the quick reply man, i'll get on it and let you know if it works. By the way if i wanted a different x and y position for each mc, do i also have to put the position in an array?

[Carl]

if you want different positions, you can't use allTo. allTo requires that ALL objects are going TO the same values.

 

yes, you could keep all the positions in an array and then loop through the array to get the values.

[Guest newdevide]

Then waht should i use?, I just tried using allTo and it didn't work

sorry i'm new to this thing

[Carl]

this is one way

 

var mcs:Array = [car_mc, bike_mc, plane_mc]
var xPos:Array = [100, 220, 350]

var tl:TimelinLite = new TimelineLite();

for(var i:int = 0 ; i
tl.append(TweenLite.to(mcs[i], 1, {x:xPos[i]}));

}

[Guest newdevide]

Well it works, but not the way that i hope it would be. It doesn't tween at the same time. Although it sure saves a lot of scripting line.

[Carl]

use insert instead of append.

[Guest newdevide]

Holly s**t, it WORKS man, thx 4 the great help.

You should make this a tutorial you know that