megallion, have your ships fire based on when you think the ships should fire, not because you might play a bunch of sounds around the same time.

I actually had to do a hack in my bullet system in how I pooled the soundManager: the soundManager would get multiple calls on any given tick (assuming more than one weapon was fired) but would only play the sound clip once. This game as a realization that fast-firing weapons allowed some sounds to stack in an improper manner and it really hurt the game's credibility / production value. Very unlean code, but managed to fix at least that.

Okay well before I said that when I included a timer all my enemies would not shoot. Now I got them to shoot on a timer but only one shoots at a time. So one enemy comes out and it shoots, when that enemy gets destroyed the next one in the vector shoots.

Well, we don't have any code to help, but I bet you can work it out.

Where is your timer variable stored? It should be an EnemyShip class member variable since each ship should have it's own refire timer. You don't have it as a global variable do you?

Go though your code, ask yourself what happens. Try debugging and see why this is happening. Good luck.

The code is pretty much what I posted earlier in the thread. If you look at one of the functions theres a part of it thats commented out. That one has a timer and when I use that ships fire one at a time like i explained.

I'm going to really go through the code like you said though. Its just that it seems like its something that should be done so easily.

And to the other people about sound, I'm not sure I'm even going to have the enemy ships have a sound effect. I might just have music instead.

Okay well before I said that when I included a timer all my enemies would not shoot. Now I got them to shoot on a timer but only one shoots at a time. So one enemy comes out and it shoots, when that enemy gets destroyed the next one in the vector shoots.

Well, we don't have any code to help, but I bet you can work it out.

Where is your timer variable stored? It should be an EnemyShip class member variable since each ship should have it's own refire timer. You don't have it as a global variable do you?

Go though your code, ask yourself what happens. Try debugging and see why this is happening. Good luck.

The code is pretty much what I posted earlier in the thread. If you look at one of the functions theres a part of it thats commented out. That one has a timer and when I use that ships fire one at a time like i explained.

I'm going to really go through the code like you said though. Its just that it seems like its something that should be done so easily.

No, that's only the function that acts on the "timer" My question was, where is the timer variable stored? Is it a global? That's the code I want to see.

It should be a member variable for in each instance of class you have.

The Timer variables are just stored in the EnemyShip class. I initialize it as currentTime = SDL_GetTicks() and lastTime is initialized to zero.

void Enemy1Bullet::EnemyBulletHandler(int posX, int posY)
{ 
	currentTime = SDL_GetTicks();
	if(currentTime > lastTime + 1000)
	{
		Enemy1Bullet* bullet = new Enemy1Bullet(); 
		bullet->box.x = posX + 50;
		bullet->box.y = posY + 35; 
		enemyBullets.push_back(bullet);
		lastTime = currentTime; 
	}
}