Need some help with bullets...

Try looking up projectiles.

Why don''t you write a bullet class and spawn/delete bullets as nessesary. The class would include position, direction , velocity as well as sounds/graphics (or pointers to) and damage information/type (explosion radius etc).

,Jay

Thanks!

That''s what I have so far, but I think I am thinking too technically . It has to be easier than I am thinking, because right now, I have about 3 different classes and structs just to manage the bullets...

And they still don''t work!

~Dwarf

hiya dwarf, do you already have a timer control in your game? well, everytime the player presses the spacebar, activate the timer for the bullet, ie,

when the user presses spacebar:
fire = true;

if(fire = true)
{
bullet_Y -= (your variable here)
}

well, that''s all what i can think off, hey if you''re still having a problem, ICQ me, 141451718, i''ll happily help you out,

You could implement a linked list... I don''t know if you have already...
Example:

class Bullet
{
public:
   float x, y;
   float xvel, yvel;
   Bullet *next_bullet;
   Bullet *last_bullet;
   void AddBullet(Bullet *pParent);
   void DeleteBullet(void);
};
void Bullet::AddBullet(Bullet *pParent)
{
   Bullet *pNew;
   pNew = new Bullet;
   pNew->last_bullet = pParent;
   pNew->next_bullet = NULL;
}
void Bullet::DeleteBullet
{
   Bullet *next;
   Bullet *last;
   next = this->next_bullet;
   last = this->last_bullet;

   // skip current bullet, then delete
   next->last_bullet = last;
   last->next_bullet = next;
   delete [] this;
}
 

This probably won''t work (so don''t compile it! ), but it might get the idea across... And then during the gameloop you''d have to create some kind of loop that walks through each bullet and does its ai. Look up a linked list tutorial in the Articles section if you don''t understand them...
Goodluck!
-Jesse


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If you have a copy of UnrealEd look at the weapon classes there, they are all subclassed from a standard weapon class with different Touch (bullet projectile hit) etc. methods.

It makes it very easy to add new weapons etc (Exploding Pigeon Crossbow).

,Jay