[Solved] Shooting exactly 2 bullets in a second

Kreved · 03-09-2011 10:51 AM

Hi all.

At first, I wanna say, that I'm not a professional game developer or even programmer, so my question could be very, very dumb.

I'm making some kind of a prototype of an arcade arena shooter (a bit lika a Geometry Wars clone smile

), and my problem is shooting.

I need fire to be full auto (binded on the left mouse button) with a rate of fire 2 bullets in a second.

So my Input section is like:

Code:

        if(Ms.b(0) && Time.curTime()-lastB>0.5)

        {    

            lastB=Time.curTime();

        //checking free bullet obj

            for (int i=0; i<300; i++)

            //free?

                if (!Bl[i].Check())

                {

                //givin params to bullets, not so important

                    Vec2 temp;

                    temp = -Getpos()+Ms.pos();

                    float =sqrt(temp.x*temp.x+temp.y*temp.y);

                    temp.x/=g;

                    temp.y/=g;

                    Bl[i].Set(Getpos(), temp);

                    break;

                }

       }

So, as you can see, I use Ms.b(0) event and I check if the differenct between current time in seconds and time of last shot is more then 0.5 seconds.

Completly doesn't work. It is shooting >9000 bullets in a second :(

What I am doing wrong?

P.S. Sory for my poor english

Dynad · 03-09-2011 11:10 AM

well you need to change the timer:

PHP Code:

lastB+=Time.d();

if(Ms.b(0) && lastB>0.5)
{
//do checks here

lastB = 0; //reset bullet timer.
} 

Mardok · 03-09-2011 11:14 AM

PHP Code:

//global------------------
Flt time_to_shot = 0.5;
//------------------------

update()
{
     time_to_shot -= Time.d();

     if( (Ms.b(0)) && (time_to_shot <=0) )
     {
          shot();
          time_to_shot = 0.5;
     }
} 

Kreved · 03-09-2011 12:04 PM

Thx, it's all working correct now!

It's nice to see, how fast I can get help here. Thx again (:

[Solved] Shooting exactly 2 bullets in a second
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