Question

I am using Flash(as2 or 3 doesn’t matter). I would like to know the match behind the moving eyes or possibilities to use default flash tools to make eyes move.

Eyes:

My biggest concern is eye shapes. They are not circural not ellipse. My second concern is the lightning on puppils. Can someone give me a hint how should I implement that?

My method
I would cut the puppils out as well as lightning. Then use these formulas for rotate the puppils around the origin point(center of eyes):

x = x * cos(angle) - y * sin(angle)
y = x * sin(angle) + y * cos(angle)

That would work well if eyes would be circular but not in this case, so I could modify the y formula to give more elliptic rotation.

Any advice is really appreciated. Thank you.

CONCLUSION
Based on ezekielDFM advice, I made the eyes move with a classical tween(360 frames). It worked perfectly. I did 4 tweens for the eyes, to be more circural movement. Then calculated the angle between mouse and the eye with Math.atan2(diffY,diffX) and did gotoAndStop(angle). Worked like a charm. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can create a timeline animation of the eye on a guide path moving in a circle around the edge of the eye. Make the animation 360 frames long and start it with the eye roughly at 0 degrees. Check the angle of the mouse from center point of the eye to get a angle and between 0 and 360 degrees. Finally, gotoAndStop the frame from the angle value.