Hey guys. Here is my program so far:

http://www.spotlightcontest.com/Game.swf

Basically, there is a player. The cursor is supposed to rotate the player, and mouse click is supposed to shoot the bullet. WASD MOVEMENT.


My symbols:

- bullet named "basicbullet". Instance name is "bullet".
- ship named "player". Instance is "player".

How do I code these 2 things: rotation of player by moving mouse cursor, and also shooting on mouseclick.

I saw TONS of tutorials on shooting a bullet to the right or above the player, but nothing about rotational movement.
You know, basic stuff. +y or +x. I want the bullet to fire in the direction of the ship.

BASICALLY this means having the bullet always shoot out of the "cannon" you can see. Just need to be able to rotate the ship with the mouse.


Anyone able to help me with this? I gave you all the symbol names. Thanks so much.

You would use sine or cosine and the mouse and mc's x and y coordinates to get theangle between the mouse and movieclip and then set that as the movieclip's rotation.

While you posted your game it is of no use to anyone trying to help you because we can't see the source code.

Thanks betawar, Ill get to the rotating when I need to.


For now I cant get the bullet functions working.


I have a bullet1 symbol.

It has a motion tween, but frame #1 is set to stop.

On my player keypresses - with WASD movement, I have spacebar set to shoot.

The spacebar code I have is:



Why is it not making my bullet1 movie play?

Frame 1 is on alpha 0%, frame2 starts the tween and is on alpha 100%.

It SHOULD moving ( the bullet ) but it isnt.

HELP!

First off, do you have an instance of the bullet1 on the stage with the instance name of bullet1?

If you do then it will probably work. The next thing that you may want to try is having your if statement trace out something like "Space has been Pressed!" trace("Space has been Pressed!"); to make sure that the statement is actually returning true.

Additionall make sure that your if statement is within an onEnterFrame event function, if it isn't i twill be checked once and then nothing else will be done with it.

I noticed that you say it should be moving on the second to last line but I don't see why it should be moving. From what I have read you just have a single if statement that tells the movieclip to play its tween and nothing else. So from what you have provided the movieclip shouldn't be moving, but staying in a single position. Granted it should probably be playing but there are possible reasons that it isn't doing that either.

If you try this code instead of what you currently have does it popup any messages?:


NOTE - You can just say bullet1.play() because it will go through and play the movieclip until it gets to another frame in which it is told to stop (which should be the first and only the first frame of the animation so it will stop when it is about to start repeating the animation).

Hope that helps.

Edit. Got it working.

Heres my code for player




Question for all you coding Gods now. How do I make multiple instances of shoot? As of now, when I move around and shoot, if I press left mouse 2 quickly, it will reset my bullet tween. I want to be able to keep moving and keep shooting.



EDIT *** heres what I got so far



The tracing is working correctly. bullet1, bullet2, bullet3... but it isnt actually creating new bullets.

Still just reseting the last bullet. =/ Help.

This post has been edited by Sonastylol: 9 Aug, 2008 - 10:08 PM

Woohoo! Bullets fire at the correct angle of the barrel now.

Now I need to figure out how to fire multiple bullets. Tracing is working correctly, but its still firing the same instance of bullet1 over and over. Any help anyone?


player code

The code looks correct, but you need to make sure that you have exported the movieclip from the library to work with AS in the First Frame.

Right Click on the instance of bullet1 in the Objects library and then select Linkage
Select "export for Actionscript"
then make sure that you also have "export in the first frame" checked and that the MC has the identifier "bullet1".

Should work after that.

HTH

well it didnt work.

I realized what happened tho --> even tho I was creating new instances of bullet: bullet1, bullet2, bullet3, etc.. I was still only doing the code for bullet1.

I changed it now to



and this is what I get. Its creating multiple bullets, but not actually running the bullet animation that worked earlier, or killing the bullet at frame 30 when the animation tween ends. to give you more details, the motion tween is alpha 100% for frames 1-25, then frames 26-30 the bullet goes to alpha 0%


http://infinitynexus.com/Game.swf
http://infinitynexus.com/screen.bmp

Okay, on Frame 30 (which should be a keyframe to llow this to work) add this code:



That will tell it to delete itself.

I am assuming that you haven't changed anything with the bullets movieclip (If you added extra frames or something it may be stopping again because of code copies). So I am not quite sure why it is not working (doing what it did before), but you may want to look over your code and make sur ehtat you didn't change anything that you though you hadn't. That is normally the cause for these types of issues when I have them. Also make sure that you code doesn't have any errors in it, otherwise it may work to a certain point and quit.

Betawar, thanks for the help but you missed something important.

Its not removing itself at frame 30 because it isnt getting passed frame 2.


If you run my code, you'll see that its creating the bullets but stopping them at frame 2. Teere is NO stop action on frame 2. For some reason it is failing to play.

Please help me address this. I dont understand why my actionscript isnt properly playing the bullet movie.

Hm, I see what you are talking about. I have tried the same thing adn it just won't play. I did find a way to get it to wor though. If you get rid of the gotoAndPlay() line and the stop() line it will work fine. Seems that Flash has some bugs in their AS 2.0...

Here is what my code looks like:



Then in the bullet movieclip I have this code on frame 30:


Hope that helps.

Hey - it works great! Thanks so much.

I made another topic but no one was able to answer me.

I'd like to take this one .swf. Open it, have a friend open it. And have us see each other.

No bounds. No health. No collision. Just movement for now.

How can I learn about incorporating networking or winsock or WHATEVER flash uses to communicate to mysql/php.

I want this "game" as it is right now to be a bare-bones basic framework for what the game will become.


If you have any books that teach this, or online tutorials, or even keywords I can search on google, it would help a ton!

Thanks for your help thus far.

This post has been edited by Sonastylol: 10 Aug, 2008 - 12:18 PM