Help needed on making a TD game!

[98700]

I am in the process of making a tower defense game and is was wondering if anyone could help me on how to make my turrets shoot when the badguy is in range. Thanks in advance.

[feral]

Your best bet is to use the distance function...


distance: Returns the distance between points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2).
example

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range=distance(turret.x, turret.y, badguy.x, badguy.y);

are your "badguys" cloned, or individuals ?

[98700]

im sure im gonna make em clones

[98700]

Ok I used the code now how do i make the turrets turn and shoot the enemy when in range?

[feral]

to make the turrents turn towards the enemy you will need to use the direction() function which returns the angle between one point and another.

you will also need to match that up with the right animations

try looking in the moon defender tutorial
http://game-editor.com/tutorials/moonde ... l_eng.html

to shoot when in range it is simply a matter of working out what shooting range is and setting a vaiable like "inrange" and saying something like

if (inrange<range)
{
//do turning and shooting code
}