2 actors colliding at the same time, but only 1 registers, game breaking!
pjnolen
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For example,
If 2 or more actors shoot a bullet(same or multiple bullet actors) and they all hit the player(any actor really) at the same time, only 1 of them registers. Which makes making a shooter game almost impossible. Even if I use multiple bullets(actors) and change the timing of the damage they do it sometimes works but that means I need to make a new bullet for every gun on the screen, and if I have 4 actors, with 2 guns each the GS engine cannot make multiple changes to an attribute at the same time.
Which means any game made where the player, or npc takes more than 2 or more forms of damage, only 1 is ever registered.
This means when the player is looking at a wall of bullets coming at him, and he's supposed to be hit by 10, he doesn't worry because the engine will only allow 1 to damage him and the rest do nothing.
PLEASE PLEASE take a look at this. I'm trying all kinds of tricks to get around it, but this issue shouldn't exist for us to have to work around it. I've got a ton of stuff in the game i need to get done and i'm stuck in one spot trying to get just the bullets to do damage.
If there's a way around it I haven't tried, that will work, i'm all ears.
To get the hits/damage to register you HAVE to separate the bullets that will hit the player.
I've tried having the bullets move at random(380,420) speeds. To separate them more.
I've tried having the the bullets spawn at random(4,5) seconds. To separate them even more.
I've tried spawning the ships at different times. Again to separate them more.
I've tried having the ships(same model different actor) move at different speeds. To change the distance between the starting and ending locations of the bullets to help separate them more.
The problem is, there are only so many 10ths of a second, within a second, and too often when you have 3-4 badguys all firing, sometimes shooting more than 1 bullet, many hit the player overlaping in time and DON'T register the damage.
I can't imagine that this how the engine works.
please help
thanks!
PJ
If 2 or more actors shoot a bullet(same or multiple bullet actors) and they all hit the player(any actor really) at the same time, only 1 of them registers. Which makes making a shooter game almost impossible. Even if I use multiple bullets(actors) and change the timing of the damage they do it sometimes works but that means I need to make a new bullet for every gun on the screen, and if I have 4 actors, with 2 guns each the GS engine cannot make multiple changes to an attribute at the same time.
Which means any game made where the player, or npc takes more than 2 or more forms of damage, only 1 is ever registered.
This means when the player is looking at a wall of bullets coming at him, and he's supposed to be hit by 10, he doesn't worry because the engine will only allow 1 to damage him and the rest do nothing.
PLEASE PLEASE take a look at this. I'm trying all kinds of tricks to get around it, but this issue shouldn't exist for us to have to work around it. I've got a ton of stuff in the game i need to get done and i'm stuck in one spot trying to get just the bullets to do damage.
If there's a way around it I haven't tried, that will work, i'm all ears.
To get the hits/damage to register you HAVE to separate the bullets that will hit the player.
I've tried having the bullets move at random(380,420) speeds. To separate them more.
I've tried having the the bullets spawn at random(4,5) seconds. To separate them even more.
I've tried spawning the ships at different times. Again to separate them more.
I've tried having the ships(same model different actor) move at different speeds. To change the distance between the starting and ending locations of the bullets to help separate them more.
The problem is, there are only so many 10ths of a second, within a second, and too often when you have 3-4 badguys all firing, sometimes shooting more than 1 bullet, many hit the player overlaping in time and DON'T register the damage.
I can't imagine that this how the engine works.
please help
thanks!PJ
Comments
Hope this helps!
There has to a way to take damage from multiple actors at the same time.
you sir are a @#$%ing genius.
I will dance at your wedding.
:-)