Can you help me? Holding spacebar to shoot doesn't collide properly

rab127

Hi

A newbie question.

I am using the basic shoot em up and have a problem with the laser fire.

I've changed some enemy ships to have to have hit points.
the self.hitpoints-1 decreases them untill they die at 0.

The problem I have is if I tap the spacebar to send three shots at an enemy it dies.
If I hold the spacebar down and a stream of shots hit it it doesn't die.

What is the problem with holding down the laser?

JohnPapiomitis

you probably have your die rule when hit points=0

you want it to be when hit points is less then or equal to 0

It sounds like its getting hit so fast its hitpoints are dropping into the negatives before anythign has a chance to register the 0

rab127

Thanks

tried it and it didn't work but I think the issue is that I have multiple actors being spawned that share the same "hitpoints" attribute that are on the screen at the same time.

I seem to get two extremes of behavior;
1. Even though I have hitpoints at 3 they get destroyed on the first hit of the laser.
2. or I can't destroy them

ShineyGames

Try using self attribute instead of the globe ones(share the sme hit pionts)

JohnPapiomitis

yes the hitpoints attribute needs to be a self attribute

rab127

Thanks

Checked they are all actor, self, attributes