AnimationEngine Arcade "shooter" strategy?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi John,

if you use AE 2.9 or higher, aeMoveTo is your friend.

aeMoveTo is a one line command that moves your object. it automatically sets up the needed timer to move the object and moves it from its current location to an end point you specify. You can apply an easing effect to the movement, which makes it look quite nicely. Also, aeMoveTo sends callback messages, while the object is moving.

Here is a starter. Assumes AE is in use and a button "projectile" and a button "target" exist. Also an image "cannon" Script is in the card:

on mouseDown
   set the loc of btn "projectile" to the loc of image "cannon"
   shoot
end mouseDown

on shoot
   aeMoveTo the long ID of btn "projectile",the mouseLoc,400,"inOut"
end shoot

on aeEnterFrame
   if intersect(btn "projectile",btn "target") then
      --more sophisticated collision detection goes here
      put "boom"
   end if
end aeEnterFrame

Hope that helps,

Malte