The short answer is:

Any way you want

The long answer is:

It depends upon how you have structured your code and how you have organized things. There are few hard rules for writing games. The solution to your problem will be specific to the game you''re writing and your coding style. If you can be a little more specific as to how you are already positioning your enemies to begin with, how they fire, what currently determines a hit or miss, etc., then I''m sure someone can offer some ideas. I can almost guarantee your post as is won''t get you the info you''re looking for.

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quote:Original post by megaman
Well, I use the distance equation between two shapes (enemy laser and player ship) when distance = 0 then my boolean variable "hit" = true and the player lose life. If the player hit them, they die and the next enemy in the array needs to arrive.

Every time this happens you could get a random number between 0 and, say, 8, and don''t register the hit if it equals 1. That way, the enemy would miss approximately 1 out of every 8 shots(or any other number you wanted).

If you want to make the aim extra bad, you could take the opposite approach and register a hit when the number equals 1. Either way you do it, you have control over how many times on average the enemy hits or misses.

quote:Original post by megaman

I already figured out how to make the X coord of appearance random, but it selects a new random X untill it reaches the bottom of the window!!! I need to only get a rand X once and then keep that number untill the enemy is defeated. Hopefully this is more specific.

The enemy should have its own seperate variables for things like position, health, etc.

When the new enemy is created, you should simply set its variables to whatever(random x position, y at the top of the screen, etc.), and use those variables when you process it..the random function should only be used on the enemy variables when it start/restarts, after that it should not be called..





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