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Make enemies shoot at me

Author:  allenh98 [ Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Make enemies shoot at me

Basically, what I want for my program is to have my enemies shoot at me. For example, if soldierX (which is the enemies X co-ords) is between say 500 and 600 (to make it shoot at a random time each time), how can I make my program shoot a sprite at me? What happens currently is this in pseudocode

if soldierX = 600 then
enemyMissilex = soldierX
enemyMissilex := enemyMissilex - 10
end if

the point to enemyMissilex := enemyMissilex - 10 is because I want it to go faster than my soldier, *which is soldierX := soldierX - 5). However, what ends up happening is that only while soldierX is 600 will it shoot. Is there a way for when soldierX is 600 to make it shoot the entire length of my screen? I hope you guys understand what I'm talking about.

Author:  DifinityRJ [ Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Make enemies shoot at me

if soldierX = 600 then
enemyMissilex = soldierX
enemyMissilex := enemyMissilex - 10
end if

Well first off your doing something wrong, your making enemyMissilex = soldierX, so even if you decrease enemyMissilex position your always reseting it back to soldierX.

Author:  Clayton [ Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:16 am ]
Post subject:  RE:Make enemies shoot at me

code:
if soldierX = 600 then


Your problem lies right here. You only ever shoot if you're at 600. Instead, you need to have a range to shoot within, represented by the inequality 500 <= x <= 600, I'm sure you can figure it out from here.


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