Memoclip

We first create our movieclip, which we want to repeat a few times. I have created a movieclip called "wheel", which consists of a number of other movieclips, which we let rotate with different speed and different sense.

The actionscript for rotating the movieclips is shown here for one of them:

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
    this._rotation+=30;
}

The "plus" gives the direction and the number (here "30") determines the speed.

Actionscript for main function

This script is in frame 1 of the movieclip"theWheel".

//we set i equal 1
i=1;
//we create the function to make new wheels
function duplicateWheel(){
    //we create an array for the different colors
    myCol = new Array();
    //the first array object is null, since we start with 1
    myCol = [null,0xFF0000,0x00FF00,0x0000FF,0xD63194,0xBDC6DE,0xFF9C4A];
    //here we set the intervall function and first define var
    myTimer = "timer_"+i;
    myPause = "pause_"+i;
    myPause = new Object();
    myPause.interval = function() {
        //positioning the wheel
        var x = 25 + (25*i);
        //a number of var for the duplicateMovieclip method
        var j = i+2;
        var n = 1;
        var m = i+n;	
        newWheel = "wheel_"+j;
        duplicateMovieClip("wheel_1",newWheel,m);
        //positioning the wheel, use "eval" here, because it is a virtual
        //wheel in a var and no absolute name
        with(eval(newWheel)){
            _x = x;
            _y = x;
        }
        //setting the new color
        myColor= new Color(eval(newWheel).tire);
        //calling the array
        myColor.setRGB(myCol[i]);
        //we increment i
        if(i < 7){
            i++;
        }		
        //we terminate the loop
        if(i > =7){
            //stop incrementing, stop intervall and remove the wheels
            i;
            clearInterval(myTimer);
            removeWheel(2,8);			
        }
    }
    //calling the intervall function
    myTimer = setInterval( myPause, "interval", i*1000);
}
//we create the function to remove the movieclips
function removeWheel(a,j){
    for(n=a;n(smaller*)=b;n++){//we make loop to get all movieclips
        wheel = "wheel_"+n;//we make the var "wheel" holding all clips
        removeMovieClip(wheel);
    }
}

//calling the duplicateWheel() function
duplicateWheel();