Attaching movieclip along a path with rotation (Through AS3)

Question

How could I do:

To attach a movieclip (e.g. \'footsteps\'), along a path (other movieclip).

That would be within a interval for attaching one movieclip at a

Answer 1

You have to have your path as a mathematical function of t like (x,y) = f(t). In this case it's just a matter of moving a new movieclip to (x,y) and rotating it using for example Math.atan2.

In your case it's not clear what along a path (other movieclip) means. For example, is it static or dynamic?

The hackish way of doing this if you got a static path is using an empty sprite which is tweened along this path for 100 frames for example. In this way the function (x,y) = f(t) will be

mc.gotoAndStop(int((t-minTime)/(maxTime-minTime)));
var xToAddFootsteps:Number = mc.dummy.x;
var yToAddFootsteps:Number = mc.dummy.y;
var rotationOfFootsteps:Number = Math.atan2(xToAddFootsteps, yToAddFootsteps);

Provided that the path movieclip is called mc and the empty sprite inside is called dummy.