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Hi!
Im pretty new at The Game Creator, but im doing my best to learn. I need some help when im fireing bullets. The problem is when my player is running/standing right, the bullets go correctly - right. But when he rans/stands left, the bullets still go right. Can I fix that with scripts? Or paths? Activition events? I'm not so good at this so I need all help I can get.

What I want the player to make is:

When he stands right, he shoots right.
When he stands left, he shoots left.

EDIT" Now I also realised that I have no idea how to make an enemy try to kill to Player. Like shoot after him/chase him etc.

Would be wery thankful for answers to both of my questions.

You need to use some variable to check which way he is facing. For example, you could just use animindex, and check the animation, or you could assign a variable when you press the keys. Then check the variable with an if statement:

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Actor *bullet = CreateActor("YourBullet", "bullet", "(none)", "(none)", 0, 0, false);
if (facing == RIGHT)
{
    bullet->xvelocity = 10;
}
else
{
    bullet->xvelocity = -10;
}

Or something like that.

ok, i'll try that. Dont think i really uunderstand but i'll give it a try. Will reply and tell if it worked, thx for quick answer.

Have I understood right now?:
The codes are Script codes i guess? And I should write the codes in the "bullet_actor" script editor? Not the "Player_actor" script editor?
(like I said before im pretty new with the programm so I dont get everything now at the beginning but i learn

Cuz now im doing like this:
Player_1 has an event at "Key Down" the key is space. The action is "Create actor" -> "Bullet_actor" (parent = Player_1). And that actor will directly follow the path "Bullet_path" in 60 frames or something. That makes player_1 shoot, but only in the path direction, if i create two paths at different directions, he will shoot at both directions. Should I let this setting stay or should I delete it?

You named "animindex" can i fix so the game know when the animation is standing to the right with that one, and then shoot right? If it is like that, can u say an script code to that if the actors are:

Bullet_1
Player_1

//Fille

If you are using animindex, you can use it to check the animation that is playing. So if you have four animations: stopleft, stopright, walkleft, walkright, an animindex of 0 or 2 means you are facing left. To make the bullet move, you can either use a path, set its xvelocity, or make some other variable that effects it in draw actor. If you are using paths, then on a keydown event on your player, put this script:

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if (animindex == 0 || animindex == 2)//facing left, || means or
{
    CreateActor("Bullet_1", "bullet", "(none)", "PathLeft", 0, 0, false);
}
else//facing right
{
    CreateActor("Bullet_1", "bullet", "(none)", "PathRight", 0, 0, false);
}

Just check the CreateActor code to make sure I got it right. You can modify things to suit.

YES! It works! thank you so much DilloDude!

Hi again, i need some more help.
The problem now is that I've made a new animasion for my game, and now it doesent work properly. The new animation is a bazooka guy, and I want to fire bazooka rockets at the same button as the ordinary gun. i have tried to change stuff in the script you sent to me DilloDude, but i didnt make it. So if someone know how to do plz tell me.

" 1 more thing.
If a script is following:
if (animindex == 1 || animindex ==2 etc...) //like the one you posted above DilloDude. What does the numbers mean? animindex =="2".

//Fille

Animindexes go like this:

1st animation = 0
2nd animation = 1
3rd animation = 2
etc

k, thx. now i think stuffs will work out

No problem.

so, now i got another problem! srry for asking many things.
But i got a tank, when it gets blowed by a bozzoka rocket i got an animation for that, an exploding one. so now i add an collision event, when the rocket crashes with the tank, and its changeing animation like it should, but the animtion is looping. I just want it to be shown one time, then stay with the last animation, anyone know how to fix that ??

//Fille

event animation finish
set it to change to the last pic stopped

Game Editor loops all the animations if they aren't set to be stopped.

thx again