Reload Weapon Button - Top Down Shooter

Hi.

I'm currently working on a top down survival game in which the bullets are spawn from the player sprite in the direction of the cursor. Pretty basic...

What I need now is to create a system that when the "bulletcount" variable reaches 0, you have to press a button (could be "R") to reset the value to its original number and enable the bullet spawning again.

What's the most efficient way for me to create this?

Thanks

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Give the player an instance variable NumberOfBullets

Keybord on space bar pressed

player compare variable NumberOfBullets > 0

• shoot

Keyboard on R pressed

player compare variable NumberOfBullets = 0

• Player set variable NumberOfBullets = 20

Here is a simple capx example of mouse click shooting and reloading:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx-ufu2WID53NnVMTGRSa1k5MWM (click the download arrow in upper right corner of screen)

,,,,just a thought...

capx:

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi ... 2483111644

Thank you all for the awesome help!

I followed chrisinfinger's example. It worked great!

using timer + instance variable on player.