I'm trying to make a top down shooter that is basically classic DOOM but not violent, and obviously top down. I have weapon switching working fine, but i have animations that play when the player shoots that stop the player from switching weapons, and I'm not sure how to counteract that.
for more context i have 6 weapons. pistol, shotgun, super shotgun, chaingun, chainsaw, and rocket launcher, each with separate bullet looks, fire rates, spreads, etc. the animations play, and then the weapons have a cooldown, but since all the weapons are in the same sprite, the animation plays, and then the player cannot swap weapons until said animation is over, which can be up to 3 seconds which doesn't work with the fast-paced gameplay I want.

Help much appreciated.

Why is the weapons animation 3 seconds? Or do you mean the cooldown?

kingjaw2 wrote:

Why is the weapons animation 3 seconds? Or do you mean the cooldown?

for the rocket launcher, the cooldown between shots is 2.5 seconds.

If the cooldown wait block is in your main weapon loop, you should probably move it out. You could add a new “shoot” message that, when recieved by the weapon sprite, triggers a variable that lets you shoot to be set to false as well as a wait block. You could change the wait block depending on the weapon type for different cooldowns by just making a bunch of if-else statements. Of course, after the wait block you could make it so the player can shoot again. Then, the player should be able to swap weapons when they want.

kingjaw2 wrote:

If the cooldown wait block is in your main weapon loop, you should probably move it out. You could add a new “shoot” message that, when recieved by the weapon sprite, triggers a variable that lets you shoot to be set to false as well as a wait block. You could change the wait block depending on the weapon type for different cooldowns by just making a bunch of if-else statements. Of course, after the wait block you could make it so the player can shoot again. Then, the player should be able to swap weapons when they want.

link to da project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/948601284/

SpinOutGamesOfficial wrote:

kingjaw2 wrote:

If the cooldown wait block is in your main weapon loop, you should probably move it out. You could add a new “shoot” message that, when recieved by the weapon sprite, triggers a variable that lets you shoot to be set to false as well as a wait block. You could change the wait block depending on the weapon type for different cooldowns by just making a bunch of if-else statements. Of course, after the wait block you could make it so the player can shoot again. Then, the player should be able to swap weapons when they want.

link to da project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/948601284/

sorry alt account lol

FlyingOctopusShape wrote:

SpinOutGamesOfficial wrote:

kingjaw2 wrote:

If the cooldown wait block is in your main weapon loop, you should probably move it out. You could add a new “shoot” message that, when recieved by the weapon sprite, triggers a variable that lets you shoot to be set to false as well as a wait block. You could change the wait block depending on the weapon type for different cooldowns by just making a bunch of if-else statements. Of course, after the wait block you could make it so the player can shoot again. Then, the player should be able to swap weapons when they want.

link to da project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/948601284/

sorry alt account lol

that is the project tho

the code im using is: (sorry if it it doesn't look right, i haven't used the scratch forums before)

if <(weapon) = [Super shotgun]> then
switch costume to [ (join (join (weapon) [(dir)] [2 ]
wait (0.02) secs
switch costume to [ (join (join (weapon) [(dir)] [1 ]
wait (1.5) secs
switch costume to [ (join (join (weapon) [(dir)] [1 ]
end