ok so i'm trying to create gravity for a ball heres the code

onClipEvent(load){

	gravity=2;

	}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

	vy += gravity;

}

but when I load it the ball just stays in midair can you guys help.:Nooooooo:

Aren't you supposed to do something like ball.y += gravity? Whats vy?

V is for velocity :heh: anyways anyone else help!

So you're just going to disregard the first part of my post. Incrementing some arbitrary variable in your frame event obviously accomplishes nothing, you have to modify the objects y axis (this._y += gravity) is the proper syntax I believe.

I scanned through the tutorial he used, vy is the variable for the change in the y axis, like you said he just hasn't applied it to anything.

Try something along these lines, however, you'll have to fill in the blanks/replace the italic bold text:

onClipEvent(load){

	gravity = 2;

           vy = 0

	}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

	if (vy < max gravity strength) {

                 vy += gravity;

            }

_root.instance name of ball.y -= vy

}

My AS2 might be a bit rusty since I've been learning AS3 and might have used some of that in place of AS2 but you should be able to clean it out by googling it. This includes a way to give the dropping speed of the ball a maximum, eg, 10.

_root.instance name of ball.y could be replaced with this.y but that will be a bitch if you every advance to AS3 as it was removed, kind of anyway.

It's ._y in AS2.
DarkCloud, try learning more basic stuff, and don't move on to more advanced stuff until you understand the code.

I feel stupid I still don't understand it...

Did you read the tutorial Flood gave you?
If you haven't, read it.

yea I did learn heres my code idk if it works since the damn ball wont let gravity affect it!heres the hittest can you guys tell if its right

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

	if (_root.ball.hitTest(_root.ground)){

		vy *= 0;

		vx *= 0;

	}

}

If the movieclip ball hits the movieclip ground, vy and vx are * by 0, making them 0. You then do nothing with these variables so nothing will happen. To try and explain it, you have vaiables, a value or setting. You have to tell flash what to do with these, for exmaple, telling it that the ball's x co-ordinate value should equal vx.