Comments on: Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3 – Part 2

By: Zilx

Zilx — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:20:16 +0000

is it possible to set it up so that it shoots off of a mouse click instead? cause i have the function being run off of a MOUSE_DOWN mouse event and im haveing it place the bullet (it is exported thoguh action script) where the mouse clicks by saying newBullet.x = mouseX; and same with mouseY any thoughts as to why it wouldnt be working?

By: Mp

Mp — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:50:39 +0000

I’m noticing that you can’t move diagonally up-left and shoot at the same time (in the demo here too). I’m having an analogous problem with something I’m working on- what’s up with that?

By: Zak

Zak — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:21 +0000

@Magnus: How did you do it! I have the same issue!

zakkain at gmail.com – please get back to me!

By: Suza

Suza — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:12:35 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it helps so much!!

By: ShutdownSignal

ShutdownSignal — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:25:48 +0000

Magnus, could you please tell me what modification you made to your code to let it shout continiously?? =o

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:12:02 +0000

If you want to fix the problem where you can’t shoot while moving and the fact that it sometimes shoots more than 1 at a time:

- don’t use the shootAllow variable. Instead created a spaceDown variable and create the bullet in the enter frame function

By: ryan Felton

ryan Felton — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:52:00 +0000

does this work if the files are stored on a memory stick?

By: Piater

Piater — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:28:05 +0000

Shooting while moving diagonally doesn’t work except for right-up movement. Any idea why it works only in this direction?
I was trying to implement shooting while holding spacebar, however when I hold spacebar th mcMain stops moving diagonally. (again with exception for right-up direction)

By: Magnus

Magnus — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:03:20 +0000

made a little modification to my code

makes it possible to continue shooting while holding space and moving at the same time

By: ketchupb

ketchupb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:58:05 +0000

“1190: Base class was not found or is not a compile-time constant.” If you leave an instance of the movie clip on the stage this error comes up. It’s probably the one you initially created. Now that bullet is in the library you can delete it. Otherwise Flash has no clue how to deal with it. I’m a noob so I don’t know the technicalities behind it, but either way that’s how I solved it. Yey.