Issue regarding coding

[Pork]

I've come across a problem whilst developing my new game. For some reason I can't get the bullets to interact with the enemy on the stage. Basically I want the enemy movieclip to play the next frame upon hitting in the bullet movieclip which is shot from the player. I cant think what's wrong in my coding or whether it is an issue with instance names.

Here is a link to the .fla I am using if anyone has the time to have a look and let me know what I need to change in order for it to work.

Arrow keys to move the red square and spacebar to shoot. The enemy is the black box.

[kylelyk]

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[PoppyClock]

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[Pork]

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[MintPaw]

At 7/17/10 11:18 AM, Pork wrote:

At 7/17/10 11:16 AM, kylelyk wrote: Use SpamTheWeb to post Flash Files. Its ad-free and easier for people like me to figure out which download button is the right one. Plus no sign-up required.

Thanks! Much better link here :)

Bah, gotta use cs5 for this one. >.<

So first of all it looks like you have:

onClipEvent(load){
if (this.hitTest(_root.bullet[i]))
	{
		this.gotoAndStop(2);
	}
}

1. This is a load event. It's only checking for collision. Put it at enterframe
2. What is this "i" variable it's never defined or set. Use a loop.

Was going to post a fix example but then I saw:

this._y -= bulletspeed;
				if (this._y < -1 * this._height) {
					this.removeMovieClip();
				}

On you player. -_-

Meaning that your obviously copy/pasting this, and doing it incorrectly at that. Go out and lean this stuff or you'll never be any good.

[Pork]

Ok then I've made some changes to the coding... I still can't figure out how to get the enemy to interact with the bullets.

Instead of creating random numbers for the bullets I've done the obvious thing and included "i++" which just increases every time. I assumed I could use the same piece of coding that created the bullet to destroy the enemy. Hmmm

>> Here is the .fla <<