Having a movie clip "shoot" another object

[ouest_cote]

I'm working on a game right now, and I'm stuck.. I have no idea where to begin. I want to have it so that when you press the spacebar or shift, the movie clip of the character will shoot a bullet.. I have no idea how to make a movie clip of a bullet appear from the x,y coordinates of the character movie clip. If anybody has experience with doing this, could they pleae help me out? I would really appreciate it, Thanks! (I am using Flash 5)

- Brendan

[ouest_cote]

One more thing I'd like to clear up, in the last message i think i made it sound like i hadn't gotten anywhere in the game but i already have the movements of all of the characters and objects on the screen, i just need to know how to have the character and badguys able to shoot bullets.

[Olorin]

Hmmm, let's see... place something like this in the bullet movie clip:

OnClipEvent(enterframe)
{
if (key.isDown(key.SHIFT) && shooting == 0){
this._x = _root.player._x;
this._y = _root.player._y;
shooting = 1;
}
if (shooting == 1){
this._x = this._x + 10;
}
if (this._x > 600){
shooting = 0;
}


this code shoots a bullet to the right, and there can only be one bullet on screen at a time. If you want to have several bullets, use duplicateMovieClip, and removeMovieClip to remove the bullet when it is offscreen.

hope this was helpful,

Olorin

[ouest_cote]

Thanks, that what exactly what i was looking for!