Timed shot

[Nickydude]

The player can shoot every time the SpaceBar is pressed, if he holds it down, I want a bullet to appear every second to stop a continuous line of shots being produced.

Can anyone clue me in please

[scottige]

You could use "Repeat while space is down and every second" perform shoot routine.

[DavidN]

Don't use the "Every" condition - that will limit you to being able to fire every time the timer reaches a multiple of 1000, rather than putting a delay on from the time you first held the space bar. Use "Restrict actions" in the Special object > Limit Conditions instead.

[Nickydude]

I've created a "restrict actions for 01"-00" but not sure how to incorporate the space bar being pressed. You couldn't give me a quick step-by-step could you?

[DavidN]

OK - right-click on the "Restrict actions" event you have and select "Insert" to add a new condition. Then go to the mouse/keyboard object, select "Repeat while key is pressed" and use the Space bar. The "Repeat..." condition as opposed to the "User presses a key" condition allows the event to trigger multiple times when the key is down, rather than once when the key is pressed.

[Nickydude]

Thank you, forgot you could insert more than one event on one line.

thanks for your help David

[DJFuego]

or if more than X bullet objects on the screen disable the fire group.