Spawn laser in Basic Shoot Em Up

inatnat

I would like to add a button in the screen to fire the laser instead of using the space key

My problem is how to set the X,Y position when spawning the laser which should be vary according to the ship actor

I currently is using a attribute and set to true when button is pressed, and in the ship actor, using a timer to check for the attribute and spawn when it's true.

It's seems not a good way to do it, any advise can be given?

expired_012

Try this:

First make a game integer attribute named "shoot"

Next make your shoot button and add it in your scene. In the shoot button give the rule:

When touch is pressed

Change attribute: Game.shoot to 1

otherwise

Change attribute: Game.shoot to 0
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Now make a missile actor and give it the following behaviors:

move: 90 degrees, speed 300, relative to actor

timer- after 1 second, destroy actor
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Now go into your player actor and give it this rule:

When game.shoot is 1:

Spawn Actor (missile): Direction 0 degrees, Position= X 0, Y 32,

firemaplegames

And also set game.shoot back to 0 right before the spawn behavior in the rule.

expired_012

Yea, missed that one. Sorry about that mr. Perfect!!!

Yozef

Thanks guys
Spawn Actor is the trick