Dev Log Number 4
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With the amount of time logged, you would think a lot has been achieved. But no…
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After an almost 2 week long holiday induced hiatus, it seemed I had lost my confidence with pygame, and at some points, felt like i had lost my brain entirely.
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My attempt to add shootable bullets should have been a simple task, yet it seemed to be impossible. And its not like I could have packed up shop and tried something else, a shootable bullet is esential for a game where the only playable charcater is, well, A GUN!
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The first challenge was getting the bullet to spawn from the correct location. Initially, the bullets appeared from the centre of the gun rather than the barrel. Obviously that was not the intent.
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I eventually solved the issue (casued by my own ignorance) and passed the barrel position calculated previously into my bullet class rather than re-calculating this (why would i do this, what on earth was I thinking 😩)
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With that issue conquered, i then had to do the maths required to shoot a bullet from the barrel to the position of the mouse. Easy enough. NOT.
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To cut a long story short, I used the code attatched to finally make my gun work.
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My shootable bullets are far from perfect, they sometimes don’t shoot at all even when the mouse is pressed, their orientation does not match the direction the gun is facing and they are far too small.
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I plan to fix this by: killing bullets as they go offscreen, adding some sort of rotation to the bullets and for the bullets not being shot when intended, i have no real plan on how I’m going to fix that.
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I hope I come back to you in the next dev log with some actually real progress, because this is a sad excuse.
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But with determination and grit and endless scrolling of the pygame documentation, I am sure progress will come as fast as a speeding train [or some sort of blue mammal with quills (^_~)]