two questions please

[piki]

1.when i use keyboard to shoot object, it works perfect, but when i am traying to use mouse click (right or left) nothing happends..so how can i shoot objects using the mouse clicks?

2.lets say i have spaceship that can shoot bullets and i also have every few seconds an enemy craft that shoot at me every few secs and now to the hard part:* when i shoot the enemy crafts , i wants the hit to create or recall smoke animation (active i made) and i wants this smoke to stick to the enemy craft while its moving.

i was able to do something like this, but the problem was that when there is collision between two enemies or more, the smoke from the first enemy i shooted, infects the other crafts and this way i have too many enemy crafts with smoke (without me shooting at them)

all i wants to create is the effect of the hits one hit=one smoke tail attached, 2 hits=two smoke tails attached and the hit number 3=big explotion. so..if anyone understand this situation, tell me how to solve this case.

[Joshtek]

1. If you have an object with the mouse movement then you detect mouse clicks with the player 1 object's "on fire 1" and "on fire 2" events.

[piki]

1. If you have an object with the mouse movement then you detect mouse clicks with the player 1 object's "on fire 1" and "on fire 2" events.

m..dunno where i am misstaking, i have an object that moves with the mouse around all the frame area now what? i do something wrong cause els, it would work.

tell me please step by step if its not big efort mate,

thanks ahead.

[Joshtek]

When you have an object set to mouse control you need to test for fire 1 and fire 2 under the player controls in place of button clicks.

See also http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=2&Number=24989#P ost24989

[piki]

ok...success to do mouse shoot

now...do you have any idea how to solve my next question?

(2.lets say i have spaceship that can shoot bullets and i also have every few seconds an enemy craft that shoot at me every few secs and now to the hard part:* when i shoot the enemy crafts , i wants the hit to create or recall smoke animation (active i made) and i wants this smoke to stick to the enemy craft while its moving.

i was able to do something like this, but the problem was that when there is collision between two enemies or more, the smoke from the first enemy i shooted, infects the other crafts and this way i have too many enemy crafts with smoke (without me shooting at them)

all i wants to create is the effect of the hits one hit=one smoke tail attached, 2 hits=two smoke tails attached and the hit number 3=big explotion. so..if anyone understand this situation, tell me how to solve this case. )

[00J]

That all depends on how your enemy ships health is handled.

You should have your ships health set up such as.

ship1=100
ship2=100
ship3=100

then if ship1's hit points = 75, then create smoke at ships location.

ship2 and ship3 should not emit smoke because they are un damaged.

if i understand you correctly, I don't actually see how all your ships are generating smoke unless you "duplicated" your enemy ships, which you shouldn't do. You should "clone" them.

[piki]

if i understand you correctly, I don't actually see how all your ships are generating smoke unless you "duplicated" your enemy ships, which you shouldn't do. You should "clone" them.

well..what i did is this:
i created an animated (4 frames) enemy craft and i programed a timer to create every 5 secs new enemy craft. so actualy no duplicates and no clones. just the same object upear with the usage of timer.
now what you said above (ship1=100, ship2=100 and so on) ,means that i will have to store value for every ship that upear, and if i wants big waves of enemies like 1000 enemies or more?
its very complicated to create value for every single craft.

[piki]

ok..i have found the solution to my second issue
i just had to dupliate the enemy craft..now its fine

now the hard work starts with the nice effects and the sounds.

i guess my first level will be up soon so i will share to here if you like it