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Weapons / Multiple Enemies / ** Now Bullets **

Post by Ryne »

Hi guys, I was curious on how to create a basic weapon. I was looking at Jasoco's post here http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2061, though I didn't quite understand how everything worked. I think I could create a basic weapon but it wouldn't be very efficient, and wouldn't be able to create or destroy bullets. Could anyone walk me thorough this?

Edit:

I was also curious on how to spawn multiple enemies.

Currently I have them set up like this. It also has a "state" to handle the animation that is played.

love.load

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	enemy = {
	hp = 100,
	status = "ALIVE",
	x = 600,
	y = 150,	
	w = 14,
	h = 16,
	speed = 20,
	}


	enemy_state = enemy_anim.enemy_walkleft
love.draw

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function love.draw()
	enemy_state:draw(enemy.x, enemy.y)
end

And some of which is handled by these functions:

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function CheckCollision(obj1, obj2)

	if obj1.x > obj2.x + obj2.w - 1 or
	obj1.y > obj2.y + obj2.h - 1 or
	obj2.x > obj1.x + obj1.w - 1 or
	obj2.y > obj1.y + obj1.h - 1
	then

        return false             -- No collision. Yay!
    	else
        return true         -- Yes collision. Ouch!
    	end

end


function CheckDirection(obj1, obj2)

	if obj1.x > obj2.x + obj2.w - 1 then
	enemy_direction = "right"
	return false
	
	elseif obj1.y > obj2.y + obj2.h - 1 then
	enemy_direction = "down"
	return false
	
	elseif obj2.x > obj1.x + obj1.w - 1 then
	enemy_direction = "left"
	return false

	elseif obj2.y > obj1.y + obj1.h - 1 then
	enemy_direction = "up"
	return false

    	else
        return true         -- Yes collision. Ouch!
    	end

end


I was thinking that using my current code would work, since the enemy.x, and enemy.y would have to be independent variables for each of the enemies. Is there an easy way to handle this?
Last edited by Ryne on Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:56 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Weapons?

Post by ninwa »

Maybe I can help a little. With anything, you should always start by defining what exactly you're going to be modeling in code, so:

A weapon has what sort of properties? We can start with a really simple model.
  • Firing rate
    Damage done

    some sort of "onFire" action, presumably a bullet spawner.
And each bullet flying through the air, they're going to have properties too, some simple ones might be:
  • x location,
    y location,
    x velocity _
    y velocity _ \__ These two together are also known as it's "velocity vector"

    some sort of "checkCollision" member.
    some sort of "updateLocation" member
A very simple beginning model would be to have a table of "active bullets," where new bullets are inserted into when our player fires his/her weapon. These bullets would be table.remove()'d when they hit something or leave the screen.

Maybe this will give you a few ideas? :)
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Re: Weapons?

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ninwa wrote:Maybe I can help a little. With anything, you should always start by defining what exactly you're going to be modeling in code, so:

A weapon has what sort of properties? We can start with a really simple model.
  • Firing rate
    Damage done

    some sort of "onFire" action, presumably a bullet spawner.
And each bullet flying through the air, they're going to have properties too, some simple ones might be:
  • x location,
    y location,
    x velocity _
    y velocity _ \__ These two together are also known as it's "velocity vector"

    some sort of "checkCollision" member.
    some sort of "updateLocation" member
A very simple beginning model would be to have a table of "active bullets," where new bullets are inserted into when our player fires his/her weapon. These bullets would be table.remove()'d when they hit something or leave the screen.

Maybe this will give you a few ideas? :)
This helps somewhat, I'll see what I can put together, and post back If I need more help. Thanks!
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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

Post by ninwa »

Instead of having your enemy details in a one level table like that, do something like this:

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enemies = {}
function spawnEnemy(x,y, {other details})
    table.insert(enemies, { x = x, y = y, other details = other details})
end

Replace other details with all of the parameters you want to give a new enemy, and remove the brackets.

And from here you can reference your enemies using

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enemies[1] -- This is our first enemy
enemies[2] -- This would be our second enemy, you can refer to him using this.

-- You can refer to all enemies using this
for i, #enemies do
    enemies[i] -- This is a loop that goes through all of our enemies.
end

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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

Post by Ryne »

ninwa wrote:Instead of having your enemy details in a one level table like that, do something like this:

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enemies = {}
function spawnEnemy(x,y, {other details})
    table.insert(enemies, { x = x, y = y, other details = other details})
end

[/code]

Cheers,
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I'm having some trouble with that. For this section:

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enemies = {}

function spawnEnemy(x,y, {other details})
    table.insert(enemies, { x = x, y = y, other details = other details})
end

I'm not sure exatly how this works. Should it look like this after I change the values?

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function spawnEnemy(x,y, hp)
    table.insert(enemies, x = 100, y = 100, hp = 100)
end
Creating and using functions is still relatively new to me. I was also wondering how to refer back to each of those enemies. So if the first enemy is enemy[1] how would I print enemy[1]'s HP on screen? enemy[1].hp?

Thanks again.
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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

Post by ninwa »

Ryne: http://codepad.org/XM4QwNYP

Codepad fucked the formatting up a little bit, do your best to ignore that. :)
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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

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Ryne wrote:I'm not sure exatly how this works. Should it look like this after I change the values?

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function spawnEnemy(x,y, hp)
    table.insert(enemies, x = 100, y = 100, hp = 100)
end
Yes, if you call spawnEnemy(100, 100, 100).
Ryne wrote:Creating and using functions is still relatively new to me. I was also wondering how to refer back to each of those enemies. So if the first enemy is enemy[1] how would I print enemy[1]'s HP on screen? enemy[1].hp?
Yup.

It works with arbitrarily nested tables:

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f = {{{{{"Bonus"}}}}}
print(f[1][1][1][1][1]) -- prints "Bonus"
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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

Post by ninwa »

Specifically addressing:
Ryne wrote:

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function spawnEnemy(x,y, hp)
    table.insert(enemies, x = 100, y = 100, hp = 100)
end
This should be:

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function spawnEnemy(x,y, hp)
    table.insert(enemies, {x = x, y = y, hp = hp})
end
I didn't mean to be confusing, but the { and } within table.insert was meant to stay. Sorry, that was my fault. Also, as Robin said, from the code I just posted, you could now do spawnEnemy(100,100,100) and spawn an enemy at location x = 100, y = 100 with 100 hp.

And yes, enemies[1].hp would give you the hp of your first spawned enemy.
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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

Post by Ryne »

I just created an extensive thread asking 3 questions, at the completion of which I exited my browser rather casually instead of actually submitting the reply. My rage is attempting to take control and force me to refrain from reposting the questions, while at the same time my OCD is pushing to resubmit. Alas, I will go with the OCD and try to remember what I typed.

First of all, thanks. I appreciate you typing everything out like that, I completely understand how it works now. I would also re-ask those 2 questions now, however stupid they may be.

Question 1:

Here you have the "enemies" table outside of love.load. I thought that ALL tables had to be in love.load(). I guess that isn't the case, though I was just wondering if the table would still work, even if it were in love.load.

Question 2:

You created a separate function to handle enemy drawing (function drawEnemies()) Obviously the code is nicer like this, but could the contents of this function just have easily been dropped into love.draw instead?

This reply is significantly shorter than my previous one.

Thanks again!
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Re: Weapons / Multiple Enemies.

Post by bartbes »

1: It's not really that different in effect, it only changes the moment at which it is set (or emptied, depending on previous state). However, if you keep everything in love.load() then you can just rerun that to restart the game, which is quite a big advantage.

2: Sure.
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