Comments on: AS3 Math Advanced: Find the Distance Between Two Movieclips or Coordiates with Actionscript 3

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:26:29 +0000

Thanks for the formula, I’ve been looking all over for it!

By: Bill Nunney

Bill Nunney — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:14:13 +0000

Hi, yeah we had a bit of a messup and my account got deleted and all my files aswell, we restored my tutorials but the files were lost
I’ll have a check for the file when i get home, i’ll msg back if i can find it

By: joyce

joyce — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:48:11 +0000

HI the page with the source fla moved
Where can I find it:?
Thanks

By: Bill Nunney

Bill Nunney — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:45:54 +0000

Thanks for your comment. Yeah i’m still experimenting with faster, less resource hungry, ways to accomplish these calcs. I think there’s another approach that uses the Point class (though i’ve heard its worse). Btw nice blog, i think i’ll give it a read

By: Richard Davey

Richard Davey — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:39:36 +0000

This is a very common approach to coordinate distances (and of course works with any x/y value, not just movieclips). I have always been concerned about the use of the square root though – due to them being traditionally very expensive calls to make. Modern CPUs of course optimise around them, but as we know not all Flash games are run on the latest Core i7 boxes