Regarding a limited shot system

[Vandas]

Alright, in my game, I currently have a code setup as follows:

Upon Pressing " S "
+ PlayerGround = 1

THEN

Shoot Object at 100
Play SFX
Change Animation to Shooting

Now, this system works well enough, using the PlayerGround Variable to decide what animation to play in the air, or onm the ground.

My question is: How can I limit the amount of times a player can shoot at once? For example, if you spam the " S " key in this case, the player will fire rapidly. I want to limit how often they can shoot per second, sort of deal.

[LazyCoder]

There's actually a condition that is designed for just that purpose. Look under the special object, and it's called 'restrict actions for (time)'.

Also, that part of your code, does that mean you won't be able to shoot when you jump? PLEAAAASSSEEE don't do that!

[Vandas]

No, the game is not designed to limit his shooting abilities to the ground. It merely decides whether to play his ground-stance animation, or jumping-stance shooting animation.

So, I see this Restrict Action object you mentioned, and added it to the code... but this has limited him to a single shot. :/ I set it to 00'05 seconds for the Restrict for Time setup, but it doesn't seem to reset itself.

[xerus]

Heres a quick set up that I'd use.

Some alterable value on the player, maybe named RateOfFire

RateOfFire > 0
- Subtract 1 from Rate of Fire

Player Shoots
RateOfFire = 0
- Set RateOfFire to *your value here*
- *whatever shoot events you need*

[Vandas]

Well, I tried the Rate of Fire suggestion, but that came up blank; didn't restrict his rate of fire at all, even when I forced it to set rate of fire to 3, 5, or 10.

And the Restrict Action command suggested before continues to elude my understanding of its working; it does stop him from shooting, but it never allows him to shoot again as a result.

[LazyCoder]

If you PM me the file I could fix it for you.

[Vandas]

I appreciate the offer to fix it for me, but I'm one of those folks where if someone does it for me, I don't learn how to do it myself. And I am rather determined to learn this stuff.

Since the Rate Of Fire suggestion gave little result, here is a screenshot of my code exactly according to Fusion 2.



At this point, it restricts the amount of bullets able to be fired to one.

[Stereotype]

The way I control rate of fire is to use an alterable value which represents the delay between shots:

Alterable Value F("Player") > 0: Subtract 1 from Alterable Value F("Player")

(Your shooting event conditions)
+Alterable Value F("Player") = 0: (Your shooting event actions) + Set Alterable Value F("Player" to 10

It's always best to try to not use the timer-based events if you can help it, because while they will work on most machines, on faster or slower ones, they can muck stuff up.

[xerus]

I made an example of what I meant: http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=68413#Post68413