Handeling Multiple Enemies

[kizza0]

Bassicaly, Im making a flash game for my multimedia class where you shoot an continuous stream of zombies. Every time you shoot i would like every alive zombie to be tested for a collision on the bullets path. Iv got the collision detection down but handling more than one enemy has got me down.

They will be added to the stage at random intervals and their will likely be 100's appearing in each game with less than 15 on the screen at any time. Iv thought about using an array to hold each spawned zombies name but I'm not sure how to remove that name once they die.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Sam]

If your using duplicate/attach movieclip the simplest way would be to write the collision code on the zombie movieclip.

And to remove:

removeMovieClip(this);

[kizza0]

Using actionscript 3.0 so that isnt an option :(
Thanks anyway.

[Sam]

At 8/26/09 08:54 AM, kizza0 wrote: Using actionscript 3.0 so that isnt an option :(
Thanks anyway.

How about inside the movieclip and on it's frame? I'm pretty sure you could do something like that.

[henke37]

The issue is more like that there is no such method in as 3, he needs to use removeChild on the container in combination with manually unregistering any listeners and clearing any reference to the MovieClip instance.

[GeoKureli]

At 8/26/09 07:49 AM, kizza0 wrote: Bassicaly, Im making a flash game for my multimedia class where you shoot an continuous stream of zombies. Every time you shoot i would like every alive zombie to be tested for a collision on the bullets path. Iv got the collision detection down but handling more than one enemy has got me down.

They will be added to the stage at random intervals and their will likely be 100's appearing in each game with less than 15 on the screen at any time. Iv thought about using an array to hold each spawned zombies name but I'm not sure how to remove that name once they die.
Any help would be appreciated.

for(var i:int = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
    if(myArray[i].dead){//if enemy is dead
        rootMC.removeChild(rootMC.getChildByName(myArray[i].name);//remove chid from parent
        if(i+1 < myArray.length)//if not the last index in array
            myArray[i] = myArray.pop();//remove child from array by moving last index to overwrite it 
        else//if this is the last index
            myArray.pop()//remove it
    }

[kizza0]

Thanks dude.