Player shooting (bullet start point problem)

[d-soldier]

Much like the Abuse2 demo, my player has a 360 degree rotating torso for aiming/shooting... My animation is great, but I need to take the time to script a modified start point for the created bullet(x/y location from the player_torso actor) for each frame of the 360 degree movement, as the rifle is not always extending right from the center of each sprite. How would I go about doing this, anyone? Could someone show me a line of the script for this type action that I can duplicate for each frame and adjust? I appreciate it!

[Game A Gogo]

can you explain me what you mean about the position.

[d-soldier]

SEE PIC BELOW:
The red lines represent where the "creat actor" for the bullets should come from (not always the center of the player torso actor). The blue lines are where the bullets are starting (center) which causes them to obviously not come from the player's gun. So I need to script the bullets' create actor action to adjust starting coordinates (x/y based on the player's torso) for each frame of the Player's 360 aiming. Does that make sense?

[Game A Gogo]

k, its because maybe i could of done it in one line of code!
*thinks hard*

If i could have the Player sprites (DO NOT WORRY ABOUT ME STEELING THEM!) and the bullet sprites.

I could cook you somethign, PM me or E-MAIL me (Gogo4pogo4u@aol.com!

[d-soldier]

I'm not worried about you stealing my sprites... and I'm not worried about taking the time to script it out for each frame of the animation, I just need to know what the line would be for each.. such as:

if (animpos == 1) create actor bullet, y+2,x-5 player_top, y-whatever...

I have no idea how the line would look (clearly)...

[Game A Gogo]

just click on (Variable/function) then click on create actor make sure that relative to actor position is selected, and in the x,y fields, put the amount needed.

[d-soldier]

But there needs to be an IF, each frame has a different position... so it's going to be 36 (35 really) different IF's for each animpos of the animation...

[Game A Gogo]

then it would look like:

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if(animpos==0)createactor("......");
else if(animpos==1)createactor(".......");
else if(animpos==2)createactor(".......");
//etc...

[d-soldier]

Thanks... but does anyone know what all the crap following the create_actor is (all the numbers and such?) I'll see if I can figure it out when what you just posted. Appreciate the help!

[Game A Gogo]

do what i just told you to do whit the variable finction after yo have typed the "if / else if" things!

[Sgt. Sparky]

accually you could just use somthing like this,
although you would need to change the value of st!
make a integer called st,
on create actor of the bullet,

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angle = ANGLE;
directional_velocity = 15;
st = 0;
transp = .99;


on the draw actor event of the bullet,

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if(st == 0 && distance(x, y, theactorthatcreatedit.x, theactorthatcreatedit.y) > whatever)
{
st = 1;
transp = 0;
}


and on the event that it creates the bullet(use this for you badie),
just make it create the bullet!
and use this code as well after you make a variable called ANGLE,

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ANGLE = animpos*10;


or whatever is required.

I hope that helps.