Shot Objects won't wrap?

[Michael_Gummelt]

So I have some asteroids in my scene that float around and wrap when they leave the play area. Same with my ships.

But all the objects that I shoot from the ship will not wrap, regardless of the fact that I set up events for them to do so. Is this some sort of automatic feature - to make shot objects auto-remove at screen edge?

What I'd really like is for them to wrap, but I'd also like to be able to set a lifetime on them so that they'll automatically destroy themselves a specified amount of time after they're created.

[Michael_Gummelt]

So I have some asteroids in my scene that float around and wrap when they leave the play area. Same with my ships.

But all the objects that I shoot from the ship will not wrap, regardless of the fact that I set up events for them to do so. Is this some sort of automatic feature - to make shot objects auto-remove at screen edge?

What I'd really like is for them to wrap, but I'd also like to be able to set a lifetime on them so that they'll automatically destroy themselves a specified amount of time after they're created.

[Jeff]

Its another limitation of using the shoot action.
You don't have any control over the object.

[Jeff]

Its another limitation of using the shoot action.
You don't have any control over the object.

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]Its another limitation of using the shoot action.
You don't have any control over the object. [/]

That's unfortunate, I wish they'd add some options to that action.

I guess I wouldn't mind *too* much if I could control the speed and animation of generically created objects, but that doesn't work, either.

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]Its another limitation of using the shoot action.
You don't have any control over the object. [/]

That's unfortunate, I wish they'd add some options to that action.

I guess I wouldn't mind *too* much if I could control the speed and animation of generically created objects, but that doesn't work, either.

[Random]

Of course it does. Just create a shot object at 0,0 of your ship, with the same direction (where you select the position, there are options for that). Also give your shot a bouncing ball movement, so it will fly in a straight line, AND will wrap around the playfield.
You have total control over it. You can change speed, animation, size, what you want. Just add those things in the line in which you created the object, and it will only affect that one.
Also you can use an alterable value, increase it every second by 1, if it's > 2 destroy it. There you have the lifetime.

[Random]

Of course it does. Just create a shot object at 0,0 of your ship, with the same direction (where you select the position, there are options for that). Also give your shot a bouncing ball movement, so it will fly in a straight line, AND will wrap around the playfield.
You have total control over it. You can change speed, animation, size, what you want. Just add those things in the line in which you created the object, and it will only affect that one.
Also you can use an alterable value, increase it every second by 1, if it's > 2 destroy it. There you have the lifetime.

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]Of course it does. Just create a shot object at 0,0 of your ship, with the same direction (where you select the position, there are options for that). Also give your shot a bouncing ball movement, so it will fly in a straight line, AND will wrap around the playfield.
You have total control over it. You can change speed, animation, size, what you want. Just add those things in the line in which you created the object, and it will only affect that one.
Also you can use an alterable value, increase it every second by 1, if it's > 2 destroy it. There you have the lifetime. [/]

Have you actually tried this in MMF2? I have, and the speed changing, wrapping and timestamping don't work if you use the Shoot Object action. Even if you use the Create Object action, the speed changing still doesn't work (see my other thread on that) and timestamping seems to be global to all instances of the object, so it updates all of them at once... :/

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]Of course it does. Just create a shot object at 0,0 of your ship, with the same direction (where you select the position, there are options for that). Also give your shot a bouncing ball movement, so it will fly in a straight line, AND will wrap around the playfield.
You have total control over it. You can change speed, animation, size, what you want. Just add those things in the line in which you created the object, and it will only affect that one.
Also you can use an alterable value, increase it every second by 1, if it's > 2 destroy it. There you have the lifetime. [/]

Have you actually tried this in MMF2? I have, and the speed changing, wrapping and timestamping don't work if you use the Shoot Object action. Even if you use the Create Object action, the speed changing still doesn't work (see my other thread on that) and timestamping seems to be global to all instances of the object, so it updates all of them at once... :/