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if(Object1.hitTest(Object2))
{

}

This only check if their borders are touching tough

so i name each symbol object 1 and object 2?

That was just an example, you gotta use their instance names, not symbol names

yah thats what i ment. haha

so what does that code do?

Let's say you have symbol called Mario, and a symbol called Soccer Ball, then you give then instance names of &quotlayer" and "bal"

So your code would be

if(player.hitTest(ball))
{

}

And then put your code inside those brackets

Look at the name, "HIT TEST", it's testing for hits, and if the hit happen, it will run the code inside those brackets { }

First of all, what version of AS are you using?

um 2.0

So, what didn't you understand?

After puting in the codes. what comes next? like how do i make that frame go to the next?

Explain it a little more, what do you mean? You have a "Character getting hit" animation on another frame, is that?

Try to be specific

Ok. What I am looking for is when a character is going to a new place like a door. It hits it and then he goes in through the next door in another fram to do that level. Also. When he is on a platform and falls off the platform he looses a life.

You can have a killing groud way below the platforms, as soon as he touches it, he dies

Imagining you're making separated keyframes and want to go from one to another, you just have to use "gotoAndStop(Frame)" where frame is the numbe rof the keyframe you want him to go

if(MyCharacter.hitTest(Door))
{
gotoAndStop(10);
}