Side Shooter Problem(as2)

[Animattions]

Hey guys, i'm currently stuck as what to do with my project.

It's basically a side scrolling shooter like Metal Slug, everything seems to work fine but one little thing. The problem is when i press Space bar it's meant to shoot a projectile, which id does...but...if i jump the bullet follows the y axis with me and if i face the other direction, it flips the bullet over to the other side of the screen.

Thank you, help would be very much appreciated

~Matt

[scuddle666]

When the space bar is pressed attach the bullet animation dynamically to the players current _x and _y and give the depth of the attached bullet animation something like 10+_root.numberofbullets
then you could fire multiple bullets at the same time without it fallowing you.
EX
_root.player.attachMovie("Bullets linkage ID","newname",10+_root.bulletsfired);
_root.bulletsfired+=1;
I'm sure theres other ways but thats just an easy one i thought of.
NOTE: if you do not have the depth change each time then each time the new bullet will replace the other, even if the previous is in mid flight.

[henke37]

Most likely you have no idea of what container you are adding the bullet to. Think over this carefully and you will figure out what you did wrong.

[Animattions]

Thanks guys, i've changed it to a spawn area rather than a set area already and i have the code:-

_root.attachMovie("projectile", "projectile" + shots, _root.getNextHighestDepth());

but the problem is, is that it shoots continuously all connected together in a row, if i change the getNextHighestDepth to a unit number like:-

_root.attachMovie("projectile", "projectile" + shots, 1);

It shoots one at a time, but if you tap it doesn't finish off it's shot, it just disappears and re-appears out of the gun again. Any idea how to get it to shoot a reasonable amount at a time.

Thank you

~Matt

[Animattions]

Here's a reference pic of what i mean, the top one is what i want, the bottom one is what i get

[Benji]

look up something called "setInterval()"

Or, just use variables. E.G. when shoot is true, shoot, then set a timer for when shoot is true again.