New way to shoot

I just came up with the greatest way to shoot in a Flash game ever. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first guy to come up with this.

What I've bin doin so far is; I've bin makin the game produce a bullet whenever you click that flies across the screen. Like in CannonCrotch, you see a bullet, you see it moving, and you see it hit an enemy or wall.
Contra does this, Metal Slug, Alien Hominid, tonnes o games.
In reality, bullets aren't that slow. Bullets are fuckin quick.

So what I've done is, I've pre-determined every position the bullet would ever be in, then produced a hundred bullets that each occupy one of those positions. FUCKIN TIMEWARP.

Observe:
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/060908 /7441_YeahBabyGoYeah_Allright.php

Click to shoot. Use WASD to move around.

Here's the chode:
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
hit = false;
for (i=1; i<=30; i++) {
if (!hit) {
duplicateMovieClip(_root.shot, "shot"+i, i);
xshot = (i*20)*(Math.cos(R*(Math.PI/180)));
yshot = (i*20)*(Math.sin(R*(Math.PI/180)));
_root["shot"+i]._x = _x+xshot;
_root["shot"+i]._y = _y-40+yshot;
if (_root.ground.hitTest(_root["shot"+i].
_x, _root["shot"+i]._y, true)) {
hit = true;
_root["shot"+i].removeMovieClip()
}
}
}
}

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The-Red-Jack 2008-09-05 22:26:19

Awesome...
*bookmarks*

Wiiporter 2008-09-07 03:32:36

THATS BRILLIANT MAKE IT A GAMEAERESTRHT

Balvuc 2008-09-10 20:43:39

hmm. my friend! Just use one big rectangle for all the range of the bullet!!

I-smel 2008-09-10 20:43:39

Well your friend's an absolute fucking docile bastard.

VicBiss 2008-09-13 21:15:49

pretty realistic, definately alot more like an actual bullet than slow moving projectiles.

cast 2008-09-22 14:56:36

I'm sorry.

The-EXP 2008-09-22 22:00:30

assuming your mans instance name is MAN, put this in the frame in which he belongs

var cosNum:Number = (Math.cos(R*(Math.PI/180)));
var sinNum:Number = (Math.sin(R*(Math.PI/180)));
function onMouseDown(){
var hit:Boolean = false;
var i:Number = 0

while(!hit && range<30){
var BP:Point = new Point(MAN._x+(i*20)*cosNum,MAN._y+(i*
20)*sinNum)
if (_root.ground.hitTest(BP.x,BP.y, true)) {
hit = true;
trace("HIT AT RANGE:"+range + " AT X POSISTION:"+BP.x+ " AND Y POSISTION:"+BP.y)
}
}
}

same code - far less CPU intensive - although there are still better ways of doing it.

The-EXP 2008-09-22 22:01:49

Whoopsy doodle, this is AS2, so no point class

use just generic object instead

var BP:Object = new Object(....

The-EXP 2008-09-22 22:03:43

Whoopsy doodle version 2

Man I'm failing tonight

here be the real code

var cosNum:Number = (Math.cos(R*(Math.PI/180)));
var sinNum:Number = (Math.sin(R*(Math.PI/180)));
function onMouseDown(){
var hit:Boolean = false;
var i:Number = 0
while(!hit && range<30){
var BP:Point = new Point(MAN._x+(i*20)*cosNum,MAN._y+(i*
20)*sinNum)
if (_root.ground.hitTest(BP.x,BP.y, true)) {
hit = true;
trace("HIT AT RANGE:"+i + " AT X POSISTION:"+BP.x+ " AND Y POSISTION:"+BP.y)
}
i++
}
}

molkman 2008-09-29 13:13:47

That's a great thing, thanks. :DDDD

New way to shoot

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