Bullet Help!
How to make a bullet kill its shooter.
So in my game i have been working on, I have a tank like object that shoots bullets. Now I want to make this bullet kill the tank( that shoots it) if it bounces off the wall and hits it. So I mad a collison, but instead the tank gets killed right away because when it is "firing the bullet" it collides with it. SO i went in and made an attribute, that everytime it collides it adds +1 to the attribute, and when it gets to =2, the actor gets destroyed. Unfortunatly that didnt help because the second time I fire a bullet the actor gets destroyed. how can I make bullets like this. where after the actor fires them, if the actor gets hit by them he gets destroyed?
thanks so much
So in my game i have been working on, I have a tank like object that shoots bullets. Now I want to make this bullet kill the tank( that shoots it) if it bounces off the wall and hits it. So I mad a collison, but instead the tank gets killed right away because when it is "firing the bullet" it collides with it. SO i went in and made an attribute, that everytime it collides it adds +1 to the attribute, and when it gets to =2, the actor gets destroyed. Unfortunatly that didnt help because the second time I fire a bullet the actor gets destroyed. how can I make bullets like this. where after the actor fires them, if the actor gets hit by them he gets destroyed?
thanks so much
Comments
You could add a self boolean attribute to the bullet called "bounced". Then add a rule so that when the bullet collides with a wall the bounced attribute changes to true, and the bullet only kills the tank if it collides with the tank and it's bounced attribute=true. (ie it has already bounced off a wall).
Another idea:
Each bullet (or any actor) will internally keep track of a self.time attribute that starts as soon as it it is created and counts up until it is destroyed. If you are using spawn to create the bullets then you could work out how long it takes for the bullet to leave the boundary of the tank actor (lets say this takes 0.5 seconds), and then have a rule in the bullet that says if it collides with tank, and it's own self.time>0.5 then destroy tank. This will make sure that the destroy action doesn't come in to play until the bullet has already left the tank.
Just a couple of ideas, there may be better ways of doing the same thing!
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