How to make things shoot

[ESL]

I am a newbie here. Have read through the tutorials and watched the Space Invaders demo but am still having trouble making a spaceship to shoot. I am probably just missing one detail but not sure what it is. Are there any detailed instructions on how to do this?

[DST]

Okay here's a quick vid i threw together for you of the *fastest* way to make this stuff happen.

Welcome to Game Editor!!!

[GtcGaming]

if you don't get his video. I'll tell you how I do it


Creat actor name it PlayerShot than -add anaimation-look in their data/your pictures for the shot. Now make sure you set the "on startup" to off now

Go to your spaceship. add event - key pressed down - creat actor - PlayerShot

Now your spaceship will shoot.

To make it where it kills the enemy:

on your shot you made go to add event- collision- Destory actor "what ever your enemy is"

This should work, if it doesn't tell me and i'll see what's wrong.

[ESL]

Thanks to both of you. I understand how to do it now

[ESL]

Well, sort of. Now it shoots once but the ship goes flying off screen too.

[ESL]

On the video, I had trouble reading the script code for the Enemy actor.

I wrote: xvelocity=-10;
//-is opposite of player shot's direction

but it looks like there are dots or quotation marks. I can't quite read them because the font color is light blue.

[GtcGaming]

Are you trying to get the enemy to shoot towards you? It should be yvelocity than. Y is for up and down and X is for side to side.

To make them move down you need to have them connected to "base_enemy" and have two sensors on both sides so if "enemy" touches it they will go "down" and "side to side"

I'm not sure how to do all this because I've been busy with learning c++.

[ESL]

Yes, I want the enemy to shoot back. On 2:12 through 2:26 of the video, he shows a script but I am having trouble reading it because of the font color.

[krenisis]

Ok 1st click the enemy bullet actor
Click on add// click on draw actor // click on script editor //
yvelocity=+10;

Ok now click on the enemy
click on add // click on create actor // click on create timer
a small windows pops up after you give it a name on the line below it type 250 . Now the go down to the line below that and erase the * symbol type 500. Now click on and go out of that.

Now for the last part click on the enemy again
click on add // click on timer // choose the timer you just made //
now add action // create actor // choose the enemy bullet and click ok

Now run you game and the enemies will be firing at you!!! enjoy

[Hblade]

How to make things shoot

by Tutochao, your guide to Game Editor

If you would like to make things shoot, you should first open up Global Code

Global Code:

Click variables
Click Add
Name the variable bul_spd
click where it says Integer, and select "Real"
Click where it says Global Variable, and click Actor variable
Click Okay

Close global code now, and go to your bullet actor. On the bullet actor, add this code

Create Actor

Script Editor


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bul_spd = 12;
xvelocity+=bul_spd;


bul_spd is an actor variable, so it can be set for every actor separately. Now, go to your actor that shoots the bullet.

Key down

Shoot key (Which ever key you chose, we will use Z in this case)
Create Actor - Bullet actor
And you should be good

ENEMY BULLET:
Do the same thing as the first one, only use this code at create actor instead

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bul_spd = 12;
xvelocity = -bul_spd;


This will actually make it -12, instead of 12. Thus making a shot hurdle towards the character xD I hope this fixed your issue ^.^

[ESL]

Thanks! This helps a lot.

[ESL]

I have the ship shooting but for the enemy ship, it says I have a script error




shottimer++;
if(shottimer==10)(CreateActor("planet_shot1", "shipShot", "(none)", "(none)", 0, 0, false);




shottimer=0;
>

[Hblade]

use this not " ( "

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if (shottimer == 10)
{
    Create Actor - Do the rest
}


[krenisis]

What complex coding we using here, for the enemy to shoot its very simple. Did you use the method I described?

[ESL]

I understand the concepts pretty well. I am just having trouble reading the light blue font scripts because my room has too much light. I will try it again tonight when I have a dark room.