Shooting While Looping

[nivram]

I have a question if I may.

How would you code the character shooting inside a loop that makes the character move.

What I have is:

On loop horiz
+User pushes the B key
+Character:Flag 1 is on

Character launch bullet at speed 50 (action point, located, oriented

Thanks for any thoughts, beliefs, coding.

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[dsilvers]

First, I wouldn't use the Shoot Object function, I'd use the Create Object function and separately code the bullet's movement by triggering a Movement variable once it's created and then coding the movement based on that.

Second, unless the character has to be moving in order to shoot, there's no real reason to keep the On Loop function or even the Movement Flag condition.

For instance:

+Upon Pressing the B Key

- Create Object Bullet at Action Point (Player)
- Set Bullet "Move" variable to 1.
- Set Bullet "Direction" variable to Current Direction Value Direction(Player) (under Animation).

If Bullet "Move" Variable = 1
+ Direction of Bullet = Right Direction Value
- Set X position of Bullet to X ("Bullet") + 10

If Bullet "Move" Variable = 1
+ Direction of Bullet = Left Direction Value
- Set X position of Bullet to X ("Bullet") - 10

The only time I would worry about the character shooting while moving and shooting while standing still is how that affects the character's animations, and I usually control those separately from the rest of the code for that very reason.

That's just the simple version of it, and of course only works if you're only worried about affecting the bullets on the X-Plane. However, you could store X and Y directional values in separate alterable values in the bullet and move them based on those. If the bullets were being fired left and right, the Y value would not be added to the movement speed, and same for up and down.

[nivram]

Thanks dsilvers. Your suggestion was the same as steven1980 via pm. This solved my problem. Appreciated.

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