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Enemies in Java

Started by Duekiller Nov 16, 2003 at 7:37 PM 5 replies 600+ views

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Nov 16, 2003 at 7:37 PM

Hi im building a game as an after school project and i would like to know how to make enemies apear without end. i have a class that handles how ONE soldier moves and acts, but i wanna do is have 10 enemies on the screen at once. Whenever a soldier gets killed another one is created. I have no clue how to do that. ps: the method that handles the soldiers movment ArmyofOne.drawSoldier(); [edited by - Duekiller on November 16, 2003 8:38:24 PM]

AndreTheGiant

Nov 16, 2003 at 7:56 PM

Java doesn''t need anymore enemies

Duekiller

Nov 16, 2003 at 8:48 PM

thank you for the constructive advice, it always helps ! |:-<

AndreTheGiant

Nov 16, 2003 at 9:06 PM

Heh, sorry

At least it moved your post back up to the top

nonnus29

Nov 16, 2003 at 9:08 PM

Use an array;


Soldier [] soldiers = new Soldier[10];

for (int i=0; i < soldiers.length; i++) 
     soldiers[i] = new Soldier();

// then to spawn a new one do something like


for (int i=0; i < soldiers.length; i++) 
     if (soldiers[i].dead) soldiers[i].reset();

[edited by - nonnus29 on November 16, 2003 10:11:06 PM]

Duekiller

Nov 17, 2003 at 5:56 AM

thanks man that helps, i didnt know you could do that, that helps alot!

Hungry Joe

Nov 17, 2003 at 1:39 PM

quote:
Original post by AndreTheGiant
Java doesn''t need anymore enemies

9/10

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