GTA TYPE (rotate and shoot in that direction)

[AephorA]

Hey, Ive been working on a GTA 1 type game (topview one), and Im having trouble getting the man to shott in the direction that he's facing (the man can rotate 360 degrees)... if anyone knows a tutorial that could help or anything, that would be great !

thx

[RyxiaN]

that isn't very hard right? I think I have seen that on Tonypa

[signifer123]

Tonypa is a tile based tuts though arn't they ?
i've gotten pretty far on a tut on this but its not based on rottation its face north, south etc...
and have it as a root var and use a if statement to tell how it flies
the problem is shooting out of a car

[i need help]

Hey, Ive been working on a GTA 1 type game (topview one), and Im having trouble getting the man to shott in the direction that he's facing (the man can rotate 360 degrees)... if anyone knows a tutorial that could help or anything, that would be great !

thx

im havin the exact same problem....i found a tutorial that was perfect for moving the car but im havin the same problem as u with the shooting...tell me if u solve it:puzzled:

[Sirisian]

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90734 look here I explained my code 2nd post is this what u mean. If so Im really good at them just ask questions http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90504

[i need help]

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90734 look here I explained my code 2nd post is this what u mean. If so Im really good at them just ask questions http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90504

is the code you wrote supposed to make the character shoot??

[i need help]

Tonypa is a tile based tuts though arn't they ?
i've gotten pretty far on a tut on this but its not based on rottation its face north, south etc...
and have it as a root var and use a if statement to tell how it flies
the problem is shooting out of a car

wat tut have u been workin on??

[Sirisian]

my code is for rotation. The shooting code should use duplicateMovieClip and then set the rotation fo the bullet equal to the person that fired it. It should then move the bullet using trig code

[Lomadrian]

If you have the basic movement down and your car's pointing right when _rotation = 0, then this code should be able to make it shoot:


var bullet:Object = {counter:0, speed:10};
var setShootdelay:Number = 10;
var shootDelay:Number = setShootdelay;
_root.onEnterFrame = function():Void {
shootDelay = Math.max(shootDelay-1, 0);
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) && shootDelay == 0) {
shootDelay = setShootdelay;
bullet.counter++;
if (bullet.counter>50) { bullet.counter = 1; }
var bullet_mc:MovieClip = _root.attachMovie("bullet", "bullet_"+bullet.counter, bullet.counter);
bullet_mc._x = character._x;
bullet_mc._y = character._y;
var angle:Number = character._rotation*Math.PI/180;
bullet_mc.xmov = Math.cos(angle)*bullet.speed;
bullet_mc.ymov = Math.sin(angle)*bullet.speed;
bullet_mc.onEnterFrame = function():Void {
this._x += this.xmov;
this._y += this.ymov;
if (this._x<0 || this._y<0 || this._x>Stage.width || this._y>Stage.height) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
};
}
};

In this, the instance name of your character is character. It's written in AS 2.0, and uses "attachMovie" instead of "duplicateMovieClip".