Cannon War

[myraneal]

Hey everyone,
I've only used ZGameEditor for about a week and a half now but I like it a lot! So you can probably tell I'm still learning the ropes and to expedite the learning process I wanted to make one of those games where you have two cannons that are trying to shoot each other.
I actually ran into quite a bit of problems with this project, which is mainly why I'm posting this here; to seek help.
The problem I'm currently having is this: The cannonballs that are launched from the single cannon have a lifetime of 5 seconds. At the end of their lifetime, I want a really simple particle effect to take place. I tried rendering this effect in OnRemove of the BallModel but that didn't work. I'm now trying to Spawn a ParticleEffect model, which all it does should be to display the particle effect and then die, but that doesn't seem to work either. I made sure that the two components I use to render the particle effect work because when I put them under OnRender of the ZApp, it shows me the particle effect correctly at 0,0,0.
So I'm uploading my project file to this post and if anyone could take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks,
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[jph_wacheski]

looks to me like you are doing way more work than you need to,. just use timers to remove stuff when it is no longer drawing anything.

I just looked quickly but if i find the time,. i will see what else I can help with,. the attached file has the parts blowing up real good,.

peace.

[myraneal]

Thanks very much jph! This definitely helped.
You are right about doing more work than I need to. I had totally forgotten about timers so I was keeping track of time myself, which is (in most but not all cases, mind you) totally unnecessary
Here's an improved version of the game. Still quite incomplete but it's getting there. I also added a Pause feature, just hit the 'p' key. It does have a 0.4 sec keyrepeat delay however, because if I don't put that delay then you end up pausing and unpausing the game right away when you just tap the key.
W and S keys for P1 angle, E to shoot from P1, Up and Down arrow keys for P2 angle, L to shoot from P2. P to pause.

Thanks,
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