Holding Mouse down & Shooting more than once

[Mazerwulf]

Hello everyone. I have two quick questions.

I am doing a top-down shooter ala Xevious and I am trying to figure out two things.

The first is: How would I be able to hold down the mouse button to keep firing?

The second: How would I increase how many bullets fire with each click? Basically what I mean is if I do "Launch object", it lets me fire 1 bullet but I need to wait until the bullet is either destroyed or is off screen before I can shoot again but I would like to get a stream of bullets (not machine gun status but at least bursts). How would I go about this?

[Klownzilla]

I did a "Repeat while left mouse-key is pressed"
"+Number of "bullets" <10" ----> Player Launch an object

for me, a fast click on the mouse made the Active object fire one bullet...while clicking it longer it fired 2-10 bullets at once. Maybe not exactly what you want but maybe a start

[Mazerwulf]

I will give that a shot. I appreciate the input. ^_^ I'll post back once I get a result

[Mazerwulf]

I did a "Repeat while left mouse-key is pressed"
"+Number of "bullets" <10" ----> Player Launch an object

for me, a fast click on the mouse made the Active object fire one bullet...while clicking it longer it fired 2-10 bullets at once. Maybe not exactly what you want but maybe a start

Alright, I did the Repeat part and that seemed to give me autofire as long as the mouse is held - that's awesome.

And I figured out the way to limit the bullets. Super awesome.

However the bullets just shoot all at once. How could I do it where I can spread them out a bit?

[Klownzilla]

Maybe try this?
"Repeat while left mouse-key is pressed"
"+Number of "bullets" <10"
"Restrict actions for 15/100" ----> Launch object

Is that's the effect you're after?

[Mazerwulf]

Let me give that a shot

[danworth]

You could also have a rate of fire stat for your weapons.

When the mouse button is held, Restrict actions for ?/100: subtract 1 from cooldown

when cooldown <= 0 Launch object and set cooldown to firerate stat.

[AM_Games]

OMG...this post is 3 years old and it totally helped me!! TY!!!