Shooting Help Please?

[mog440]

Can someone please help me with how to shoot properly? I have been trying for hours and cant work it out as I am fairly new to Game Editor.
I am working on a platform game, like the Caveman tutiorial, and my character needs to shoot (throw daggers) at enemys. I can get it to work when he shoots to the right but I cant get him to shoot left. Any (simple) help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, mog.

[lcl]

You can make it like this:

Select your dagger actor, or whatever you call him, and then Add Event -> Create Actor -> Script Editor
First, add variable called ShotWay, or something you want, then insert that code to the script:

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if(ShotWay==0)
{
    xvelocity=-5; //That makes the dagger to go to left
}
if(ShotWay==1)
{
    xvelocity=5; //That makes it to go right
}


Then, in your main character key downs add these scripts:

Add this one to key down that moves your actor to left

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ShotWay=0;


And this one to key down that moves your actor to right

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ShotWay=1;


This method allows you to shoot left and right.
If you have still any questions, ask me!

[mog440]

End of headache. THANKYOU!! Thats why I like this forum, everyone is so helpful.
Would you use something similar to change animation of the dagger so the pointy end always goes first too?

[mog440]

I am also having trouble with player staying on horizontally moving platform. Player jumps onto platform and platform slides out from underneath him? Do I have to increase the Physical Response or something??

[MrJolteon]

Add this on collision with the moving platform:

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PhysicalResponse(bleh bleh);
ChangeParent("Event Actor", "x_moving_platform_actor");

and on the normal platform:

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PhysicalResponse(bleh bleh);
ChangeParent("Event Actor", "(none)");

[lcl]

End of headache. THANKYOU!! Thats why I like this forum, everyone is so helpful.
Would you use something similar to change animation of the dagger so the pointy end always goes first too?

It was fun to help you! And that animation changing, you just must put it to change the animation in that same create actor script,
like this:

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if(ShotWay==0)
{
    xvelocity=-5; //That makes the dagger to go to left
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "Enter here your animation of left moving dagger", FORWARD);
}
if(ShotWay==1)
{
    xvelocity=5; //That makes it to go right
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "Enter here your animation of right moving dagger", FORWARD);
}