I need help with having the characters chosen at the selection screen appear as the player number in which they were chosen and only be controlled by the player that chose them also have is to that only 2 players show up if two players are picked for example, so if two players want to play there is no player 3 and 4.

Can I ask what do you consider your level of expertise with flash...?
Also have you done anything to try and figure this out for yourself - if so can you provide it?

That way I can decide how best to help you... whether I should modify anything you might already have, to create a sample flash, to write a tutorial for you or to advise you against even trying to do something like this.

i am not a beginner in flash
i just can't think of how to make a code that would work for loading the character that i choose
can you make a tutorial for it

I'll be the judge of that lol.

Put it this way, if you know about variables, arrays, instance names and attachMovie then this should be easy enough. If you don't then head here and brush up: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=345


First make 4 movie clips, for this example we will use Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi. In the library give them the instance name of their actual name in small caps.

This code will make the characters appear on the stage.



If you want the use to be able to choose characters you will need to allow them to change what's in charArray before calling the for loop.

What I'd do is I have an invisible movie clip with a bunch of text box's(one for each player). When a character is chosen, a number will appear in the player's box. Then in the movie clip of the character I'd put this:

If this is not what you asked for or I did something wrong, I'm sorry.