Re: [pygame] Firing bullets

["Charles Christie" <sonicbhoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I figured out what I was doing wrong... I think the problem was that I was (successfully) over complicating a simple thing. Well, I have bullet code that doesn't return errors or anything, the next important thing is making bullets disappear and stuff when they hit the edge of the screen or the character. I think I'll just make the bullets die when they hit people instead of re-using them because there's no point in coding pretty now, as my code is already ugly and I'm going to completely re-write it after school is out. Thanks for all your help!

On 4/13/07, Charles Christie <sonicbhoc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh, I just noticed that it's for player bullets. Boss bullets don't need the interval thing, do they? I'm still trying to wrap my head around "what I need" and "what I can do". Getting the two confused isn't helping me get done by the end of April...

On 4/12/07, Greg Ewing < greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charles Christie wrote:
> I just noticed something... You have an interval variable that is the
> number of ticks since the last frame. How would I pass the number of
> ticks since the last frame to the equation?

In my games, I just set the pygame clock to produce an
event every so many milliseconds, and then assume that's
the amount of time that goes by for each frame.

It may not be exactly right for every frame, but as long
as you can keep up, it will be right on average.

--
Greg