Help with side-scrolling platformer - Shooting

Hello, all. I've got a dilemma.

I have begun work on a game. It is a mega man fan-game. I'm at a bit of a crossroads.

Once the level begins, I have Mega Man as an active object. All of his animations run smoothly, though I can't make him jump yet.

But I digress. I have it set to:

[When "X" is pressed] [Mega Man] [Shoot [Mega Buster Shot] in direction -> at speed 30 ]

It should work, yes? Well,it changes animations like I want, but it doesn't shoot anything.

Help, please?

If you could also point me to a tutorial on gravity and platforms, that would be appreciated as well.

you need to post your MMA so we can see what you're doing wrong. There's too many possible reasons its not working.

Do you have an event that destroys the bullett? Where is the action point in the mega man animations (where the bullet would come from)

theres too many possibilities...

it will shoot from the 'action point' check your frames to see where the action point is on them...

MMA? I'm not sure what that is.

As for the action point thing, it didn't change anything.

The MMA is your file your saving your MMF2 project as.

Isn't it MFA? Maybe I'm confused but I thought MMF2 saves application files as MFA and project files as MFW.

LOL. sorry, that was a typo on my part. I meant MFA

Yeah, my bad. I was trying to be sarcastic about the typo but trying to be helpful at the same time, my bad lol.
No offense Holy Monkey, was just being silly.

NoBe takeM

Umm, how do I post it? Again, I probably sound silly, but I don't see an "attach file" option...

The best way is to use the MFA Repository (link on the right). The File Archives forum also works for smaller files.