Animation Problem

[Warmachine]

hey guys its me again (lol). i've spent the last hour trying different things and cant seem to get this figured out. The problem i am having is making a flamethrower work correctly. in my previous gun setups, i set an event for a key press that creates the bullet at the end of the gun, then an event in the same line that shoots the bullet in a given direction at a given speed and destroys. that works fine, but for the flamethrower i want it to where when the key is held in (repeat while key is pressed) that the flame stays at the end of the gun. doesnt seem to hard other than the fact that you cant use create like with the bullets because you end up with like 100 flames!lol the main reason i need this to work is because i have 3 frames of animation that loops while the button is held and cant seem to make this work. :confused:

[mobichan]

If you want a stream of flame sprites, you could add an extra condition like "Every XX seconds" so the spawn rate is slowed down a bit.

If you only want a single sprite to appear, then you should use "Upon key press" instead of "Repeat While Key is Pressed."

It is a little unclear what effect you are going for. Can you elaborate?

[Warmachine]

Sorry for the confusion. i want to be able to move my character, while keeping a constant flame while the fire button is pressed and once its released, it will be destroyed. i'll try out what you have suggested, and thanks for the input!

[Warmachine]

Still no luck :cry:

[mobichan]

Are you trying to make a string of objects that stay attached to your player? Or is it just one object?

If it is a string of objects, I would recommend looking around for tutorials on using bezier curves or do a search on flamethrower in the forums. I'm sure I've seen some floating around.

[Warmachine]

Are you trying to make a string of objects that stay attached to your player? Or is it just one object?

If it is a string of objects, I would recommend looking around for tutorials on using bezier curves or do a search on flamethrower in the forums. I'm sure I've seen some floating around.

yeah thats exactly what i need. i need the flame to appear at the end of the gun when the fire button is held in and to disappear when the button is released. i have the release part working just fine, but when the player runs it creates 100's of flames that stay at the point the were created instead of following the gun lol. i've looked around the forums and seen a few flamethrower related topics but couldnt find anything that could help

[The_Beaul]

You just have to destroy the flames after they've been around for a time.
What I did for my game was set it so that every frame, each flame's semi transparency ratio was raised just a bit. Then I created an alterable value on the flames and set it to be whatever the flame's semi transparency ratio was at the time. When it was mostly invisible, the flame would then be destroyed.
This gives it a nicer effect, like actual fire. However, it's probably inefficient. You can just make it so the flames are destroyed after their animation is finished, and pad the animation with duplicate frames to make it as long as you need.

[Warmachine]

You just have to destroy the flames after they've been around for a time.
What I did for my game was set it so that every frame, each flame's semi transparency ratio was raised just a bit. Then I created an alterable value on the flames and set it to be whatever the flame's semi transparency ratio was at the time. When it was mostly invisible, the flame would then be destroyed.
This gives it a nicer effect, like actual fire. However, it's probably inefficient. You can just make it so the flames are destroyed after their animation is finished, and pad the animation with duplicate frames to make it as long as you need.

i'll try that. maybe i can make it destroy at a really fast time so that it not only flickers,but it MAY follow the way i want it to.

[Warmachine]

WELL......that worked, BUT the only thing that follows is my destroy animations!lol

[The_Beaul]

So have it be destroyed after the destroy animations or don't have destroy animations at all. Does it just make it look like the flame is fizzling out when its destroyed?