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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / What's the best way to make bullets?

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MiRRoRMaN
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Posted: 26th Oct 2002 14:22
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Hi,

I thought of a funny game about Ed Gein to make, but I'm looking for the best way to shoot bullets from the character.

Now I tried the example in DBTutor but I don't like it. What I want is like a shotgun, you know, blam: firing a bullet which flys trough the air and if it hits an enemy the bullet gets destroyed and the enemy dies. (logical right?) I also want the bullet to stop and get destroyed if it goes for example for 500 mtrs.

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks in advance!
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Megaman X
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Posted: 26th Oct 2002 14:33
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Use sprites for the bullets maybe? Instead of objects? I dunno, never tried any game that needs fire someone
In DB Classic, they had that ICeD Demo, where they used sprites to make the arrows. I think that's a good way to do... Again, just guessing, I just make puzzles and RPGs

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MiRRoRMaN
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Posted: 26th Oct 2002 15:39
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Hehe I mean more like a routine, does anyone have a nice example as to how shoot bullets from another object? I'd most love to have objects, easier collission etc.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 26th Oct 2002 16:02
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the best way to make bullets is not to have them at all
just keep all the bullets in a single array and cross referance positions if the positions equal the objects your shooting at then they hit.
crude yes, but saves processing power no end

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MiRRoRMaN
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Posted: 26th Oct 2002 16:10
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Example?

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MiRRoRMaN
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Posted: 27th Oct 2002 00:24
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Never mind hehe found it.

Be on the lookout for my Ed Gein game, I will keep u all up to date.

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Shadow Robert
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wouldn't think you need an example

but just make a type
type bullet
vCount as word
fX# as float
fY# as float
fZ# as float
endtype

then everytime you need a bullet if bullet.vX# = player.vX# then gosub _player_shot

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MiRRoRMaN
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Is that all? I mean is that an array?

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The Darthster
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I never thought about it like that. That could be useful, using arrays for bullets. Anyway, there's probably also a way to do it using the vector3 commands, only I haven't figured them out yet since DBPro won't install .
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