Shooting

[cobrasniper555]

Ok, in this topic, I want to know how the pros do shooting in games. I know how the slope intercept and the tans work with getting a projectile to fly, but what I want is a line that flies across the screen and if it hits something, that something dies. I was thinking:

onClipEvent(load){
createEmptyMovieClip("line",1);
line.lineStyle(1,0x000000,100);
line.moveTo(_x,_y);
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
var dx:Number = _xmouse-_x;
var dy:Number = _ymouse-_y;
var r:Number = Math.atan2(dy,dx);
var x:Number = Math.cos(r)*999;
var y:Number = Math.sin(r)*999;
line.lineTo(x,y);
}

But this doesn't entirely work right...can someone help me? Please?

[tonypa]

So, the line is drawn from center of mc (_x, _y) in the direction of mouse? Drawing it is easy, but to make it detect things on the stage is difficult. What kind of shapes do you need to be detected? Lines, points, circles, rectangles, or any kind other of shapes? Basically you need to create collision detection calculation between line and "the thing that can die".

[cobrasniper555]

Well, what I was thinking was what they have in games like StickMan Sam(the series) and Madness Interactive and such. I know they don't just have a bullet fly to where the mouse was clicked because that would lag the game, so I concluded that they used lines.

[Rude_b0i]

here
http://flashkit.com/board/showthread...ight=tutorials