hitTest with many of same movieclips

[VoS]

Hello there..

Im making a game in which you controll a turret and it spews out bullets like mad..
Usually i know you would name each dupicalted movieclip sumthing like
"movieclipname"+nextnumber
But i was in this case hoping i could name em all "bullet" for the simplicity of hittesting
using
bullet1.duplicateMovieClip("bullet1", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});

to duplicate

and

if(this.hitTest(_parent.bullet1)){ // is an onEnterFrame
trace("wuuuuuuuuuu");
to c if anything is happening

nothing however happens, i am not ceeing the trace message..
Can i not have many movieclips named the same, or is there somethign else i need to consider


Thanks

[JKosoy]

Naming movieclips the same is always a problem. Try something like this:

_global.count = 2;

var $bullet = bullet1.duplicateMovieClip("bullet_"+count, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});
count += 1;

if(this.hitTest($bullet)...


then you create bullet2,bullet3,bullet4,etc...

[VoS]

that dosent seem to be working (

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if(_root.$bullet.hitTest(this)){
trace("wuuuuuuuuuu");
}
}

var $bullet = bullet1.duplicateMovieClip("bullet_"+count, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});
count += 1;

bullets are appearing perfectly , but its just not detecting a hit

[VoS]

just a question .. does that way u describe work when there are about 30 different bullets at same time , will it check for all of em?

[JKosoy]

No. I think I was a little confused with what you were trying to accomplish at first. I'll need some more time to flush out exactly how I think you should do this...I'm thinking you'll need to push each button you create into an array and then in your enterFrame loop thru the array for each button and check the hitTest...

[VoS]

The way its set up right now is..
ive got a minigun turret positioned sumwere on the screen when it fires
this function is called


function shootbullet (bx,by,ang) {
//trace(totalTurret);
//trace("___bulletfired___");
qq=Math.round(Math.random());
if(qq==1){
ang2=ang+(Math.random()*accuracy);
}
if(qq==0){
ang2=ang-(Math.random()*accuracy);
}
ang=((ang2-180)*-1)/(180/Math.PI);
s=speed+(Math.random()*50);
Xmov = (s/56.5)*Math.cos(ang)*(180/Math.PI);
Ymov = (s/56.5)*Math.sin(ang)*(180/Math.PI);
_root.currdot=_root.currdot+1;
//bullet1.duplicateMovieClip("bullet1", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});
var $bullet = bullet1.duplicateMovieClip("bullet_"+count, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});
count += 1;
trace($bullet);


//bulletSound.start();
bulletsLeft=bulletsLeft-1;
chanceToJamReal=chanceToJamReal+(chanceToJamIncrea se/totalTurret);

}

and another building on the map has this



onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if(_parent.$bullet.hitTest(this)){
trace("wuuuuuuuuuu");
}
}



that functions is being called at first once per about second
but as the game progresses it will eventually be called about 90 times per second

and i need all of these bullets to be triggering the hittest
(which is why i was hoping i could name em all the same thing)

and..

each bullet deletes itself after about 3 second of livetime, so they need to be removed from whatever array they are put into (im guessing thats only way to do it)

//VoS

[edit] my apologies if i was not clear enough

[VoS]

I was thinking of an alternate solution to this..
Is there any way to return the variabel of instance name of whatever movieclip is currently colliding with the one your code is in..

so lets say i have instance 001 with the code that returns whichever movieclip is on top of it
and then you only check if the first few charactes mach , like if its called bullet_234234234 ud just check if bullet was part of its name

no idea if its possible , just a idea =)

[VoS]

could you place all the bullets in one MC..
and use
this.hittest(bulletconatiner,true) // were true sets the shapeflah boolena to positive..


in that case im wondering why this code is not duplicating a bullet..
the code is on the main timeline of the mc, as a function
and im tracing out all the values so they are getting inside of the mc and into the function..
and the mc contains the MovieClip being duplicated

bullet2.duplicateMovieClip("bullet_"+count, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});

heres all the code

the movie clip this is inside is at the root movies 0,0 location , so both should have same x y grid


function shootbullet (bx,by,ang) {
trace(bx+" "+by+" "+ang); // this statement is showing correct info
//trace(totalTurret);
//trace("___bulletfired___");
qq=Math.round(Math.random());
if(qq==1){
ang2=ang+(Math.random()*accuracy);
}
if(qq==0){
ang2=ang-(Math.random()*accuracy);
}
ang=((ang2-180)*-1)/(180/Math.PI);
s=speed+(Math.random()*50);
Xmov = (s/56.5)*Math.cos(ang)*(180/Math.PI);
Ymov = (s/56.5)*Math.sin(ang)*(180/Math.PI);
_root.currdot=_root.currdot+1;
//bullet1.duplicateMovieClip("bullet1", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});
bullet2.duplicateMovieClip("bullet_"+_parent.count, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:bx, _y:by, xs:Xmov, ys:Ymov});
_parent.count += 1;
//bulletSound.start();
bulletsLeft=bulletsLeft-1;
_parent.chanceToJamReal=_parent.chanceToJamReal+(_ parent.chanceToJamIncrease/_parent.totalTurret);
}

[chup]

Just wonder..
can u have each bullet tracing ur target instead of the target tracing every bullet?

[VoS]

Just wonder..
can u have each bullet tracing ur target instead of the target tracing every bullet?

if every bullet was to hitest for everything, the movie would perform poorly..
since the processor would not be abel to handel all of it..

But right now i think im onto a solution...
im placing all the created bullets into a movieclip , and them im gonna hittest for that movieclip..

i just have to figure out how "shapeflag" works