2010-11-17T11:25:14+00:00 http://flintparticles.org/forum/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=120&Focus=485#Comment_485 2008-11-10T12:44:40+00:00 2010-11-17T11:25:14+00:00 Jolyon http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=95

I'm hoping Flint might be able to save me a lot of headache. Is it possible to have an emitter as a stage instance and then animate it? I'd like to be able to animate my emitter along a complex ...

Is it possible to have an emitter as a stage instance and then animate it?

I'd like to be able to animate my emitter along a complex path.

Cheers.


Jolyon]]> http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=120&Focus=486#Comment_486 2008-11-10T19:01:19+00:00 2010-11-17T11:25:14+00:00 Richard http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=1

Hi Jolyon You can't create an emitter as a stage instance, but it does have x and y properties so a lot of animation scripts would work with it. Alternatively, you could animate the renderer - ...

You can't create an emitter as a stage instance, but it does have x and y properties so a lot of animation scripts would work with it.

Alternatively, you could animate the renderer - it's a little unconventional but would work. The renderer is a Sprite, so it exists on the display list. The emitter is rendered in the coordinate space of the renderer so moving the renderer would move the emitter relative to other display objects.]]>