Info Tech 9: Day 64

Today I made it so that you can kill the goblin (finally).

I started off the class thinking of how I can make the attack work, and I came up with the idea to make a separate object that gets created when you attack and does the damage (a hitbox). I made the object and called it obj_hitbox and I made the sprite a red box. Inside I made Step event and said

if place_meeting(x, y, obj_goblin)

{

goblin.hp -= global.weapondamage;

alarm[0] = 1;

}

Pretty much what this code does is that checks if the object (obj_hitbox) is colliding with the goblin (obj_goblin) and if so, then remove the weapondamage's amount from goblin's hp, then in 1 frame run the code that is inside alarm 0 which is instance_destory(), this code destroys the object (obj_hitbox).

I tested it and it worked but there was one problem, the hitbox kept getting created inside the same place no matter in which direction you were attacking. So I came up with the idea that I would make multiple hitboxes for every direction that I'm attacking.

So i started by duplicating the current attack sprites (up, down, left, right)

and then deleting all the frames only the one that actually attacks. Then I would make a red square over the hitbox then delete the rest of the player.

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I did this to all the directions of attacking and then I made different hitbox objects for all the directions with the same code. Then in my attacking code I added instance_create(x,y,obj_hitbox_<direction>).

This is the result