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N00b · Post by **N00b** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:27 am

How can I do so when I press R the main char fires a missile from the x/y position of the char and if you press it again it fires another one!?

Sry for my bad eng!

link · Post by **link** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:42 am

you make it a function.

N00b · Post by **N00b** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:44 am

can you give me a code example?

link · Post by **link** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:55 am

you should try and make it happen your self. that is the best way to learn. look at other lua codes that use this missle firing or any other projectiles and learn off of that.

N00b · Post by **N00b** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:32 am

I have tryed many diffrent ways of doing this but I havent succseed. Thats why im asking for help on this forum!

i cant find any game using that type of missile function got any tips about any?

KawaGeo · Post by **KawaGeo** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:24 pm

How about the idea...

You first write a code the best you can. Show it here on this thread. We can take a look at it what is missing or wrong. We'll try to suggest some corrections. This way we all can help you while you are learning, Ok?

PS Don't mind your English. Most of us aren't that good in English, anyway.

link · Post by **link** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:02 pm

KawaGeo wrote:How about the idea...
PS Don't mind your English. Most of us aren't that good in English, anyway.

Yeah I noticed that too. But that is a good idea.

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:30 pm

The Controller has two types of actions triggered. Button Down. and Button up.

Button down is triggered each time the loop goes through and checks for commans. So as long as you have button down. Each time it loops it will trigger a ButtonDown event placed in your code. To fix this. Refer to this forum http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=4458

Or create yourself a button inhibitor. Please note that if you do choose to use the code posted on the forum that you must adhere to my request. (That mention my name somewhere in the source code.)

N00b · Post by **N00b** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:24 am

this is one om my codes

x=0
y=0
z=1

xm=1
ym=1

function missile(xm,ym,z) if z==1 then screen:blit(xm,ym+ypointchar,missile) end end
function char(x,y,z) if z==1 thne screen:blit(x,y,z,char) end end

while true do
pad = controles.read()

char(x,y,z)

ypointchar=y

if pad:r() then missile(xm,ym,z) xm=xm+5 end

end

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:05 am

The function.

if pad:r() then
missile(xm,ym,z)
xm=xm+5
end

Will be called every time it loops through IE Multiple button presses.

Please refer to what I posted earlier.

pad:r() is called every time the button is down during the check. So multiple events of it will be called each time that value returns true..

So in a loop pad:r() is triggered each time the loop you created. A loop is approx 0.005 MS depending on you code it varies from .0005 to .5ms. Which means you must make an inhibitor (ie a stop variable) so that value event isnt triggered every time it loops through.

Thinking logically helps alot while LUA Programming.

N00b · Post by **N00b** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:41 am

But how can i make it so it go all the way on the screen!?

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:51 am

think about it

LordCthulu · Post by **LordCthulu** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:33 am

Sorry if this is off-topic, but is there an easy way to get multiple animations to loop at the same time?
Like lets say I want grass "swaying" in the wind, and also want my character on screen to move.

link · Post by **link** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:33 am

LordCthulu wrote:Sorry if this is off-topic, but is there an easy way to get multiple animations to loop at the same time?
Like lets say I want grass "swaying" in the wind, and also want my character on screen to move.

sometimes it works but sometimes it doesnt. mine is about 50, 50 chance of it going off the character or item so i get a bunch of black boxes looping with multiple animations in them.

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:48 am

LordCthulu wrote:Sorry if this is off-topic, but is there an easy way to get multiple animations to loop at the same time?
Like lets say I want grass "swaying" in the wind, and also want my character on screen to move.

3-5 images of grass placed differenly... loop though and poof done... all of the images should be timed and set down.

mrn · Post by **mrn** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:09 am

regarding multiple animations..
if i am not wrong, there is a routine called bench in the "Tools" directory of the LuaOS, which throws bubbles into the air. 50-60 bubbles at the same time.
another source of the same thing could be the page of the twin-tail guy, ema.

N00b · Post by **N00b** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:34 am

think about it

Yeah... I tryed that and it dident work!

I dont know how to cal a loop I have tryde but I can´t figer it out!

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:06 am

if missilefiring then
--do animation
end

N00b · Post by **N00b** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:02 am

okay lets try this again

u = 0

if pad:r() then U = 1 end

if U > 1 then
Missa=Missa+5
if Missa > 100 then
Missa=Missa+5
end

this script dosent work as I want it to... I want when you press R the Missa is going to go over the whole screen...

KawaGeo · Post by **KawaGeo** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:52 am

Ok, Mr. Noob

Two errors are found:

1) All letters in Lua are case sensitive. That means, u = 0 and U = 0 are different.

2) Every if statement must end with "end" word.

Make those corrections and try.

Keep up going and you'd be fine.

PS: Use [ code] and [/code] for all codes.

PSS: You, other guys, don't crack a smile.

youresam · Post by **youresam** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:49 am

mrn wrote:regarding multiple animations..
if i am not wrong, there is a routine called bench in the "Tools" directory of the LuaOS, which throws bubbles into the air. 50-60 bubbles at the same time.
another source of the same thing could be the page of the twin-tail guy, ema.

No, I didn't put that benchmark test in there, mostly becasue it was just blitting images.. I think the source just said to blit images at random locations, not sure exactly how it works, looks like a table is used.
Anyway, all I put was HSV and TwinTail.

And to n00b, are you monster365?