Ship fire event not working right..

[Archbob]

Hi,
I got a spaceship to fire in my flash but however, two shots can't be on the screen at once for some odd reason. Here's the swf:

http://www.flashninjaclan.com/spaceship.swf

and the source

http://www.flashninjaclan.com/spaceship.fla


I followed this flashkit tutorial:

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ga...-598/index.php

It was pretty successfull except for the fire. In this, if you hold own ctrl, you get a stream of fire. In mine if you hold down ENTER(I changed the key) the shot stays in place. Anyone know why?

[asp_funda]

Fixed it.
The swf & the fla have been zipped & the zip file has been attached to this post.

I changed the missile to line from circle though. You can change it back, it'll work fine & I've commented your code, so both your code & mine code is present.

Nice tut by the way. Thanks for the link.

[Archbob]

Thanks A bunch!

[asp_funda]

My Pleasure

[dooch]

nice ship

[asp_funda]

I don't want to travel in one of those for sure.

[Archbob]

I gots another problem with the fire now. I want to limit the number of times you can fire in a row. Right now I have this code:

if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
   laserCounter++;
   _root.laser.duplicateMovieClip( "laser"+laserCounter, laserCounter );
   _root["laser"+laserCounter]._visible=true;
	playsound = new Sound(this);
 playsound.attachSound("laser");
 playsound.start(0, 1);
 m--;

 }

I tried this:

if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
m=1;
while(m<5){
   laserCounter++;
   _root.laser.duplicateMovieClip( "laser"+laserCounter, laserCounter );
   _root["laser"+laserCounter]._visible=true;
	playsound = new Sound(this);
 playsound.attachSound("laser");
 playsound.start(0, 1);
 m--;
}
 }

But that just jams up my computer, what am I doing wrong. I thought my change would limit it to 5 shots at a time.

[asp_funda]

What you are doing here is putting the fire in a loop. So, even if the code works right(which I doubt), it'll fire 5 shots for every press of the SPACE key.

I suggest that you place a dynamic textfield at the root. Update its value with each fire. Now before initiating fire, check its value. If it equals 5, don't fire. Also, set an Interval of 2 seconds to set the textfield to 0 so that its usable next time user decides to fire.

[asp_funda]

Taken the SWF & FLA file off & attached to the post instead of links.

[Archbob]

Well, after messing around for a few more hours I got it figured out:
[code]
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){


laserCounter++;
if(lasercounter%4==0)
{
_root.laser.duplicateMovieClip( "laser"+laserCounter, laserCounter );
_root["laser"+laserCounter]._visible=true;
playsound = new Sound(this);
playsound.attachSound("laser");
playsound.start(0, 1);

}
}

It creates a bit of time between shots.

[asp_funda]

The script is giving errors!!

[Archbob]

Really, It doesn't cause errors on my machine, I haven't uploaded my stuff to the server yet and my server has had alot of load today for some reaosn.

[asp_funda]

umm, maybe b'coz the script you posted above is not same as that you have in the flash file. Can be b'coz you left half or some part of the total script above while you thought you were pasting whole of it.

Care to check back what you've pasted & what you've got working? I'd say that why not copy & paste it again? And in the {code} block please.

I thought that mentors were well behaved?

[Archbob]

I did cut and paste, that is the code I have in my flash file. Thats strange..

[asp_funda]

That's sure strange.

Maybe I didn't copy & paste it right. I'll try & tell ya.