Shooting Delay

Hi.. i am having problems with creating wait time..before another cannon ball can be shot.. I have set my firing cannon balls on spacebar pressed..and i have set a wait time..and have also set an instance variable..on the player cannon balls....

so here whats my events look like

+keyboard On space pressed - wait 1 sec

+player cannon ball = 0    - Spawn a player cannonball

                           - Set cannon to 1

+playercannon cannon= 1    - wait 2 seconds

                           - Set cannon to 0

so basically what i want to do is fire the next cannon ball after 2 seconds from the previous cannonball was fired was fired...above events helps to create a delay..but if i keep tapping space continously..it fires the cannonballs without any delays..

here's a capx.

dl.dropbox.com/u/67865856/prototype_Avichal_2.1.capx

I don't know if there's a more elegant way, but here's how I do it:

Player instance variable : RPM_Count (0)

Player instance variable : RPM (eg 480)

System > Every tick >

Mouse > Left button is down > add RPM * dt to RPM_Count

      > RPM_Count >= 60 > Fire bullet event and Set RPM_Count to 0

Mouse > Left button released > Set RPM_Count to RPM (so that the gun is ready to fire immediately - may want to not include this for a cannon)

Using an RPM of 480 results in a perfect 480 rounds per minute or 8 rounds a second regardless of FPS. If that's not clear let me know.

I don't know if there's a more elegant way, but here's how I do it:

Player instance variable : RPM_Count (0)

Player instance variable : RPM (eg 480)

> System > Every tick >

> Mouse > Left button is down > add RPM * dt to RPM_Count

      > RPM_Count >= 60 > Fire bullet event and Set RPM_Count to 0

Mouse > Left button released > Set RPM_Count to RPM (so that the gun is ready to fire immediately - may want to not include this for a cannon)

Using an RPM of 480 results in a perfect 480 rounds per minute or 8 rounds a second regardless of FPS. If that's not clear let me know.

i tired doing exactly what you said.. it didn't work..may be i am doing something wrong..

Here's a quick and easy way to do fire cooldowns:

CooldownMAX.capx (r98)

thanks this looks great.. i some how managed to get it fixed on my own.

here's how i did it :)

dl.dropbox.com/u/67865856/CooldownMAX.capx

Thanks that helped me a lot!

Actually if you can help, (I know its been 3 years) I'm trying to add this to all my guns in the game. I've been using Nimtrix's idea but will only work for one gun. Barc0d3guy's way doesn't work because I need it to be a global variable so I can increase the total speed for it to take to shoot. Is there a way to do this for multiple guns?

The .capx files don't work any more

Can you put what you did into text please?