duplicating movieclips

[twestasdf]

How do I control were the movieclip duplicates to?

[Webforumz Staff]

In terms of screen x, y, co-ordinates? You can't!

But you can change those x, y co-ordinates as soon as the movieclip is created, by using setProperty();

[twestasdf]

but what dose it all mean bazel?
how do i set the x y?

clipEvent blah blah bla {
duplicatMovieClip (this, newname, [??????)

see the skinny is I need a bullet, and lots of em, so i figure what beter way than this?
You reading me major Tom?

[Webforumz Staff]

In the Actionscript reference library, it has:

setProperty("target", property, value/expression);

So you would want:

setProperty(newname, _x, 0);
setProperty(newname, _y, 0);

[twestasdf]

ok thanx that helps alot but wut about the depth
on the duplicate ovie clip
the bullet replaces itself and i need a bunch at the same time
i know i gota use random(); and a variable somhow

[twestasdf]

oh god
its bad sarge
theres movie clips everywere
when i close my eyes thats all i see....

[Webforumz Staff]

math.random(); I think...
Or if you're using MX 2004 - Math.random();
(capital M on Math).