Combat Game

[Monojoe]

Ok im new to turing this year so bare with me.

ive been trying to make this 2 player fighting game where each person is on a side (and its a side view game) and has a gun. i have the movement down and im just wondering how i would go about making the guys shoot.

heres my Code so far:

(sorry if theres some variables not doing anyhting thats from trying different things and failing, if anyone has any ideas or tips it would make my life a whole lot easier.)

code:

import weapon in "item.tu" var P1Posx, P1Fistx, P1Fisty, P1Headx, P1Heady, P2Posx, P2Fistx, P2Fisty, P2Headx,     P2Heady, Player1Health, Player2Health, P1eye, P2eye,P1body,P2body,Thick1,Thick2,p1b,p2b : int %Music.PlayFileReturn ("Theme.MID") %Player 1 Parameters P1Posx := 50 P1Fistx := P1Posx + 35 P1Fisty := 40 P1Headx := P1Posx P1Heady := 60 Player1Health := 100000 P1body:=30 Thick1:=20 p1b:=P1Fistx %Player 2 Parameters P2Posx := 585 P2Fistx := P2Posx- 35 P2Fisty := 40 P2Headx := P2Posx P2Heady := 60 Player2Health := 100000 p2b:=P2Fistx P2body:=30 Thick2:=20 View.Set ("offscreenonly") loop     put "Player 1 Health ", Player1Health, "                           Player 2 Health ", Player2Health     %Player 1 Controls     var chars : array char of boolean     Input.KeyDown (chars)     if chars ('x') then         P1Posx := P1Posx + 5         P1Fistx := P1Fistx + 5     elsif chars ('z') then         P1Posx := P1Posx - 5         P1Fistx := P1Fistx - 5           elsif chars (KEY_ALT) then                 P1Fisty := P1Fisty - 20         P1body:=P1body-10         Thick1:=Thick1-10         P1Heady:=P1Heady-25           elsif chars (KEY_SHIFT) then                   end if     %Player 2 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%     if chars (KEY_RIGHT_ARROW) then         P2Posx := P2Posx + 5         P2Fistx := P2Fistx + 5     elsif chars (KEY_LEFT_ARROW) then         P2Posx := P2Posx - 5         P2Fistx := P2Fistx - 5    elsif chars (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) then                 P2Fisty := P2Fisty - 20         P2body:=P2body-10         Thick2:=Thick2-10         P2Heady:=P2Heady-25  elsif chars (KEY_CTRL) then           end if     if P1Posx >= 257 then         P1Posx := P1Posx - 5          P1Fistx := P1Fistx - 5     end if     if P2Posx <= 317 then         P2Posx := P2Posx + 5           P2Fistx := P2Fistx + 5     end if     %Damage Engine Player 1     if P1Posx + 10 > P2Fistx and P1Posx - 10 < P2Fistx and P2Fisty = 40 then         Player1Health := Player1Health - 15     else         Player1Health := Player1Health     end if     %Damage Engine Player 2     if P2Posx + 10 > P1Fistx and P2Posx - 10 < P1Fistx and P1Fisty = 40 then         Player2Health := Player2Health - 15     else         Player2Health := Player2Health     end if     %Player 1 Image     Draw.FillOval (P1Posx, P1body, 10, Thick1, blue)     Draw.FillOval (P1Posx, P1Heady, 10, 10, blue)     Draw.ThickLine (P1Posx, Thick1+10, P1Posx, 0, 10, blue)     Draw.ThickLine (P1Posx, P1Fisty, P1Fistx, P1Fisty, 10, blue)     weapon.handgun (P2Fistx, P2Fisty)     %Player 2 Image     Draw.FillOval (P2Posx, P2body, 10, Thick2, red)     Draw.FillOval (P2Posx, P2Heady, 10, 10, red)     Draw.ThickLine (P2Posx, Thick2+10, P2Posx, 0, 10, red)     Draw.ThickLine (P2Posx, P2Fisty, P2Fistx, P2Fisty, 10, red)      weapon.handgun2 (P1Fistx, P1Fisty)     %Player 1 Parameters     P1Fistx := P1Posx+35     P1Fisty := 40     P1Headx := P1Posx     P1Heady := 60     Thick1:=20     P1body:=30         %Player 2 Parameters     P2Fistx := P2Posx - 35     P2Fisty := 40     P2Headx := P2Posx     P2Heady := 60 P2body :=30 Thick2:=20     if Player1Health = 0 then     elsif Player2Health = 0 then         exit     end if     View.Update     delay (15)     cls end loop

[Delos]

Hello Monojoe. Please resize your avatar - it's too wide.

On to your code:
Glad to see you have some of the ideas down. Now, you need to streamline that by incorporating Types and Records. Look at the [Turing Walkthrough] for further details.
You say you're new, that's no problem. There's always room for learning.
As for Shooting - this may be a little challenging for you, since it will mean that you'll have to work with elementary objects. Essentially, you'll have a group of variables (packaged in a Record) that will hold information about a 'bullet'. These will include things like its position, speed, direction, etc.
In your main movement loop, you can check for the occurence of a particular key, for instance Space. When it is pressed, you will initiate a sequence of procedures/functions that will create the 'bullet' and each iteration of the loop, some of its properties will change (for instance its position).

Read up on the following topics in the Tutorials:
- Procedures, Functions, Processes (leave the latter alone for now though)
- Records and Types
- Arrays, single-dimensional is fine for now
- View.Update
These topics will take just a short time to read, but will take a while to get used to. The good news is you seem to be thinking in the right way about approaching programming, so just trust your intuition and experiment.

Questions? Post 'em up.