Okay, so I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a while now.

I’m trying to make a vertical-scrolling shooter game. My first attempt at this was in AS2 with MovieClips, but it started lagging with too many bullets. So I searched around and learned about Sprite Pooling and the copyPixel method (which is better) and started learning AS3. I was able to replicate my original attempt with Sprites, but it still lagged so I looked into copyPixel. However, even though going though a bunch of tutorials, I am as confused as ever.

The thing I don’t understand how to set this up.
For now, all I want is when I press a key (ex. control):
– bullets shoot out upward from my Ship using the copyPixel method

Thanks in advance.