i want to create a simple shooting game

[CoolGuy4]

i want to create a simple shooting game, how???
thx

kinda with a person that shoots bullets at falling stuff

[Chopsticks]

Have you made the mandatory flash hittest shooting game yet?

If not, I imagine you'll be able to pick it up from the HitTest posts( in this forum ).

Once you've done that, I can give pointers on the firing missiles aspect. This is more tricky than just the hittest method as you have to go back to school and re-learn trigonometry( see, those lessons were useful ). It doesn't help that Flash's y-coord is upsidedown

e.g.:
Snowball Game

chopsticks

[Squize]

CoolGuy you may want to read the "Read Me First" sticky, it's got some good info in it regards how to get a good response for your questions here.

Welcome to the board btw

Squize.

[Jeffshaw71]

that snowball game was pretty cool did you make that?

Originally posted by Chopsticks
Have you made the mandatory flash hittest shooting game yet?

If not, I imagine you'll be able to pick it up from the HitTest posts( in this forum ).

Once you've done that, I can give pointers on the firing missiles aspect. This is more tricky than just the hittest method as you have to go back to school and re-learn trigonometry( see, those lessons were useful ). It doesn't help that Flash's y-coord is upsidedown

e.g.:
Snowball Game

chopsticks

[CoolGuy4]

i created an object that fires bullets...
now i want to make stuff coming down towards the buttom and when i hit them they die

[Chopsticks]

Yes, I made that(Snowball) game. It was based on some earlier work:
http://www.kode2.co.uk/bbcgames/bigc...t/prototype04/

With Flash shooting games I try to maintain an array of what enemies are on screen at once and sometimes what part of the screen they're in. With these two games, I wanted to restrict the enemies to one at a time, so that there was only ever one clip doing a repeated hittest.

If you have multiple enemies, most simply you can either have all your bullets doing hittests, or all the on-screen enemies doing them.
The problem is that as the screen gets over run, the game slows down considerably from moving sprites and from so many clips doing their own hittests.

You may want to consider that either you'll have one enemy on screen at once, or the user can only fire one bullet at once.
E.g. heli2
NOTE: not my game

If the user has bullet mcBullet, drag a copy of mcEnemy onto the stage, but hide it so you don't see it when the game runs. Within mcEnemey do something like:

onEnterFrame() {
this._y += 5;

if( this.hitTest( _parent.mcBullet ) ) {
trace("HIT");
this.removeClip();
}
}


Then, when you want a new enemy, just duplicate this clip.


chopsticks

[CoolGuy4]

dl me (.fla)

ok, can someone make those devil pics on the .fla come down form the top, and once i shoot them all more come...
about 2 shoots will kill a devil if u can
thx

[CoolGuy4]

how do i get the the devil pics to come down from the top and when i hit them they disepear??