Enemies that shoot #2

Hat_man · November 14, 2019, 10:23am

I’ve been following some youtube tutorials and even a thread in here on creating enemies that shoot. I gave it a go and this was my result.

Obviously I’ve done something wrong but not sure what.

Any advice?

Also worth noting this is the first time I’ve coded so I need things explained in an easy way.
Thanks guys.

zutty · November 14, 2019, 10:32am

Why 1st and 4th codes have exactly same conditions and different Actions?
Why are you using text variables instead of value?

Hat_man · November 14, 2019, 10:33am

I made some adjustments

It is now firing the shot each time it collides with the hidden trigger “firePoint”
I know I need to add a delta time to it so it fade after a period of time.
But there is a solid shot constantly on screen where it generates from.

Hat_man · November 14, 2019, 10:35am

Simple answer is because I don’t know what I’m doing
Like I say, this is my first ever real coding!

zutty · November 14, 2019, 10:44am

The timer you added in your code is doing nothing. I dont understand what its supposed to do.

Hat_man · November 14, 2019, 10:50am

I got that from the tutorial. At this point I’m taking some thing very literally.
What I was hoping for was rather than each time the fly hit the trigger to shoot that I just added the shot would come from a timer instead, randomised a bit more so the player had to engage it different to the other enemies. Ultimately I’d like to make a boss based from it that fires several shots and Hass a basic follow player AI or something.

zutty · November 14, 2019, 1:21pm

And change the RandomInRange values to fit what you want.
Good values for RandominRange maybe are (0.3,20)

Hat_man · November 18, 2019, 1:52pm

Which timer did you use to set this up with?

zutty · November 18, 2019, 1:56pm

Timers and Time > Value of a scene timer

Hat_man · November 18, 2019, 2:40pm

Like this and the just add in the shot and its collision ect?

Hat_man · November 18, 2019, 2:48pm

Just realise that I put both condition and action on same line, so split them out.
Added in the collision.
Shot doesn’t seem to be generating.

zutty · November 18, 2019, 2:53pm

Upload your project to mediafire and I check it for you.

Hat_man · November 20, 2019, 3:38pm

thank you for the offer, but I really want to learn how to do this myself.

zutty · November 20, 2019, 3:46pm

Excellent choice! Try and error is the best!

Hat_man · November 20, 2019, 3:47pm

I’m currently watching a space shooter tutorial to see what I can learn and apply through there.

Hat_man · November 25, 2019, 1:53pm

Sorry, been extra busy so I haven’t been making as much.
I have changed the spawning point, by adding one in won the shoot fly > edit object > edit points > create point (ShotSpawn)
yet still no luck.
I think I may have missed a command or something for it to generate

Hat_man · November 25, 2019, 2:05pm

I changed the Add action to create rather than among, no affect

Hat_man · November 25, 2019, 2:11pm

Changed the linkage to the object/sprite in the add action; still no luck

Hat_man · November 25, 2019, 2:15pm

Changed up the code a bit, had the wrong things selected, such as creating ShootFly rather than shot and now it is generating object, but still need a bit more work to finesse whats happening.

Hat_man · November 25, 2019, 2:23pm

Ok, so it all works, kind of. the issue is that its generating a continuous stream of “Shots” from the spawning point. So that is what needs adjusting