Making a "Sniper" game.

Alright, well i checked the "How do I.." FAQs and dont seem to find anything close enough to this, nor can I in the forum itself.

My goal is to make a game (well this will be just a portion of the actual game) with sniping physics. In which you would see through the eye of said sniper and through the scope at a push of a button. (general view, then scoped view)I cant really seem to figure it out though. I understand the mouse will obviously big one of the largest points here in this.

Any one think they can help me out?

P.S. Also if i could get it to where the mouse aims in a side scroll shooter, with out the player's entire sprite moving with it that'd be a plus. Main focus is the sniper part though.

You could use the Set Layout Sclale to X function.

So when you hold Space the camera zooms in, like in this .capx

dl.dropbox.com/u/108799982/ZoomIn.capx

To make it better, you could have that when Space is pressed a sprite of the crosss hair would spawn, and when released it dissapears

What part exactly are you having trouble with? The zooming? The bullet physics? Wind? Enemy AI? You might need to narrow down the scope (HA!) of your question.

Actually I was Curious as to how to go about the whole idea. emoaeden has a good point there with the zoom. As well with the bullet physics, like drop rate after a certain distance, wind etc. I figured for the kills I'l ljsut make sprites of falling, but is there a way to have it so if the patrolled AI is near an edge it'll fall off rather than just fall to the ground. As well is there a code that can be used for say a detect body.(enemy sees dead ally) I assume I'd use 'Sprite x distance from sprite2 restart layout' or whatever response i decide to put in.