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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Issues While Trying to Shoot Bullets

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xSpadez
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Posted: 17th Apr 2012 05:53 Edited at: 17th Apr 2012 06:01
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Hello again,

I'm still learning basic functions in DBP and I started thinking about making an actual game. So to start small I'm just focusing on player movement and shooting. I already hit a snag

I can shoot bullets simply with adding to the y pos and drawing it to screen but then I thought "when the player moves, the bullet x y start pos needs to be where the player is.." So I made a TYPE BulletType and put in basic fields. Now with the same code when I press spacebar the game freezes completely.... - Nevermind I just fixed the code to work... Well now I feel 2x stupid than before x)

Thanks,

xSpadez

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Ramon156
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Posted: 17th Apr 2012 15:25
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Hi xSpadez. Even though you fixed your code I'd like to know what you did wrong.
My guess that it is a 2D game.
Did you forget to update new bullet X Y positions so it spawns at the player, or did you forget putting this into the loop so it updates the positions?

I have learned in 3D programming it's "better" to use a raycast rather than an using object as bullets, as they can skip a frame and miss the target.

Would this also be the case in 2D?
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xSpadez
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Posted: 17th Apr 2012 20:22
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I simply forgot to put SYNC at the end....

For shooting I did an IF spacekey AND shoot var then it would do a repeat until bullet.y was outside the screen. I forgot to put SYNC at the end for it to redraw.

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