Fully automatic weapon for game?

[BlackCow237]

I know how to make a basic shoot em up game with the aimer and the people and all that good crap but I want to make one with automatic weapons. So when I click down I need an animation (for the gun) to loop and I need it to keep doing damage as its shooting. Anyone kno of a tutoiral or anything to help me with this?

[andross_88]

For the animation, you could animate a gun that constantly recoils and shakes using motion tweening or something like that.

As for the scripting, you could write a function that checks if the the user has to mouse button pressed.

So maybe a mouse function like this?:

mouseObject = new Object();
mouseObject.onMouseDown = function () {
_root.userIsShooting = true;
}
mouseObject.onMouseUp = function () {
_root.userIsShooting = false;
}
Mouse.addListener(mouseObject);

Then write an onEnterFrame to check if the user is clicking, if it is then deal damage:

//declare the variables first
userIsShooting = false;
damage = 10;
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (userIsShooting) {
damage --;
}
}

[alillm]

You can use

if (Key.isDown(1)) {
}

to check to see if the left mouse button is down... you could then use a rollOver, or custom cursor hitTest to check for collision with the enemys.

on (rollOver) {
hitting = true
}
on (rollOut) {
hitting = false
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(1) && hitting == true) {
//hurt me
}

Not the best way ever, but it will do

Ali

[Santuria]

if (key.isdown(1)) works great. then you can have a time variable that adds and if it's greater than a certain amount it shoots if it's otherwise too fast.

[BlackCow237]

For the animation, you could animate a gun that constantly recoils and shakes using motion tweening or something like that.

As for the scripting, you could write a function that checks if the the user has to mouse button pressed.

So maybe a mouse function like this?:

mouseObject = new Object();
mouseObject.onMouseDown = function () {
_root.userIsShooting = true;
}
mouseObject.onMouseUp = function () {
_root.userIsShooting = false;
}
Mouse.addListener(mouseObject);

Then write an onEnterFrame to check if the user is clicking, if it is then deal damage:

//declare the variables first
userIsShooting = false;
damage = 10;
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (userIsShooting) {
damage --;
}
}

Im a bit confused how I would add this to the movie though. When the mouse is down I need it to loop an animation.

[alillm]

Why not use my code then? Theres nothing wrong with andross' code, but if you don't understand it why not use a simpler option??

Ali