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Archonius
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 Posted: Aug 22nd, 2005 06:04 AM Post subject: Projectiles help! |
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Hey all,
I've recently started making a space arcade game where you have a birdseye view of a spaceship and you move around shooting things. I've got my ships movement perfect but I just cant figure out how to make the projectiles/bullets.
I've been toying with the idea to create an image/s infront of the space craft when someone presses fire and moving the image along a certain projectory, using the code:
| Code: | | Form1.PaintPicture LoadPicture("shipright.gif"), 400, 400, 400, 400 |
But this seems to just create an image on the background without me being able to play with it.
If anyone has any idea of how i can create a projectile please let me know.
Robert Bowen
(ps. I've heard a few people around here using directx in gaming. I dont know how to use this. I know i should be learning but I really want abit of gaming experience under my belt as quickly as possible. I've already made simple things like minesweeper, networked snake, tetris. Im off to uni soon to study computer games programming. Hopefully i'll learn directx there :sick: )
(pps. I use vb 6) |
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DoobieKeebler
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| Without taking you down a completely different path, animation usually takes the form of draw, erase, draw, erase, etc. After a brief time, erase the image from where you put it and draw it somewhere else. I haven't done this myself but since you have half of it covered the erase part shouldn't be too hard to get. |
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