I finally got off the computer long enough to give Tom a shot at it a few days ago and he dove into the next chapter of 2D Game Building for Teens. In that chapter he gives Batty a raygun and can shoot the ghosts before they bump into him.
Well, that’s what’s supposed to happen, anyway. =:)
After fixing a few typos that Tom introduced I got the program to the point where I realized the code in that chapter wasn’t able to work right out of the book.
I’m going through it now and banging my head against things I just don’t know about in TorqueScript. I found one big problem fairly quickly, but the code still isn’t working, so now I’m down to looking at what should be happening rather than at the code itself.
Because I don’t even know if the logic is correct — I’d hate to be looking for typos when the problem is bigger than that.
More later when I have something positive to report…
Jay