Can't Create Multiple Bullets

[hamid14]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
I want to be able to make multiple bullets when pressing the spacebar


What is the problem you are having?
It deletes the already existing bullet, and creates another one.


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I've thought about it and tried using counters, but doesnt work.

Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
Here's the code.

Turing:

var chars : array char of boolean loop Input.KeyDown (chars)     if chars (' ') then         bulletgo         bulletstart := true         bulletcounter += 1 end if     if bulletstart = true and bulletcounter > 0 then         count += 10         drawfilloval (bullet_x + count, bullet_y, 5, 5, 9)     end if     if count = 400 then         count := 0         bulletstart := false         bulletcounter := 0     end if end loop

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1

[Tony]

could you explain this part of your code?

code:

if bulletstart = true and bulletcounter > 0 then         count += 10         drawfilloval (bullet_x + count, bullet_y, 5, 5, 9)     end if

How many times are bullets (drawfilloval) drawn, and at what location(s)?

[hamid14]

For the bullet to appear, bulletstart has to be true and bulletcounter has to be greater than 1. The count goes up by 10, and when it is 400 the bulletstart is set to false and bulletcounter is set to zero. The bullet_x and bullet_y are equal to posx and posy of the main player. It's in a procedure which I forgot to include, sorry. It looks like this;

var chars : array char of boolean
var bulletstart : boolean
var bulletcounter := 0
var count : int := 0
var bullet_x, bullet_y : int
var posx, posy : int := 100

proc bullets
bullet_x := posx
bullet_y := posy
end bullets

loop
Input.KeyDown (chars)
if chars (' ') then
bulletstart = true
bullets
end if
if bulletstart = true and bulletcounter > 0 then
count += 10
drawfilloval (bullet_x + count, bullet_y, 5, 5, 9)
end if
drawfilloval (posx,posy,10,10,red)
end loop

[Tony]

You might notice that the description has no mention of having multiple bullets. You might need to change something about the design.

[B-Man 31]

also, your gonna need to learn about arrays, preferably flexible ones, they will help you out a lot.

[Kharybdis]

For what b-man 31 said, to create multiple bullets, you're going to need a flexible array where it's going to keep creating bullets when you press the space bar and after a certain bullet_time_length, take away the parts of the flexible array so you have it starting at 0 again. This is an easy method, but note that the more bullets you have, the laggier it's going to get.