Sniper Rifle

[kingofnukes]

Hi. I'm designing a 1st Person Shooter and I wanted to know if a sniper rife with a zoom feature is possible and if so what code to use for it.:cowboy:

[signifer123]

of course it is jsut set the _yscale and _xscale of everything to higher than 1

[kingofnukes]

what would the code be if i wanted it to zoom in when i hold down z and make the scope drag when you move the mouse?

[Smee]

onEnterFrame = function(){
if(Key.isDown(Number(ord("Z")))){
Scope._x = _xmouse;
Scope._y = _ymouse;
}
}

Something like that, but the pathing would probably be different for your movie.

[kingofnukes]

What do you mean pathing? (sorry I'm a noob)

[nathan99]

And you cant have a footer that size r it will bem taken off of you

[Smee]

Well, I mean the paths to the Scope and mouse. If you have the Scope MovieClip inside a MovieClip called Banana, which is inside a MovieClip called Spaghetti, then the "path" to Scope is "Spaghetti.Banana.Scope".

[nathan99]

pathing..... writing the path to the object, for eg


_root.object1.object2.gotoAndStop();
//etc....

[kingofnukes]

When I hold z it makes the scope move toward the mouse but it nothing gets bigger.
Is there a code similar to kirupas masking code tomake everythin it touches inlarge instead of showing a masked layer?

[kingofnukes]

ok that's wat i thought it ment.

[squishy]

hint hint footer to tall

[kingofnukes]

Does anyone no a code or what? Im on a tight due date and I need that sniper done soon.

[Smee]

Here is an example. The code is all in frame 1 of the "Actions" layer. The lines on the stage are just so you can see where the edge of the stage is when the background is covering it.

EDIT: Look two posts down

[smack_boom]

or do you mean like:


if(Key.isDown(**whatever Z is**){
_root._xscale+=2
_root._yscale+=2
}
//put on any enterframe thingymajig

[Smee]

Right on smack_boom! Here's the updated file with smooth aiming as he suggested.

[Smee]

Press "z"

[colombianking]

works now really nice

but before it didnt for me(-:

[smack_boom]

OooOooOOoo i actually helped someone (-:

[kingofnukes]

Thanx guys, your da best! :thumb2:

[kingofnukes]

Since you guys helped me, I'll show you the finished engine for the sniper rifle.:beer:

[colombianking]

the sniper should rotate with the mouse position
you should be able to shoot anywhere in the stage
and you should be able to die

also the enemy should regenerate in different spots

(sorry if picky , just tryig to give suggestions) :red:

[kingofnukes]

I just started programing the sniper rifle into my game and a problem came up. No matter how I size it, my background doesn't show up right on the preview. If the Mc is bigger than the screen, it will only show the corner of the Mc and if it's smaller than the screen it won't zoom. What's wrong with it. I had a diffrent pic before and it worked perfectly, but this one just doesn't want to work.

[smack_boom]

Maybe if you post the fla i could help?

[kingofnukes]

Here's the .fla

http://www.geocities.com/therealhellgame/zoom.fla

[Blackspirit]

You have to align your movieclip right.

In the background movieclip align the top left of the graphic to the middle point. Or just use the ctrl-k alignment panel to align to the left and top.

[kingofnukes]

Thanks. Now I can get back to work on my game. :hitman: