getting more than one shot on screen

[KunoNoOni]

well my shooter is coming along slowly. I'm able to move my character, and it is able to shoot. but I'm only able to get one bullet on the screen at a time. I'm thinking I need to have the bullet function call itself and then use an array to hold all the bullets. I check www.lua.org for the syntax for arrays but can't seem to find anything. Is it possible to use arrays in lua?

[cancan]

Strange you couldn't find it.

Maybe this link will be helpfull for you.
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/

For an array you must define:
table = {}
and after table[1] = 2

[KunoNoOni]

Hehe, sorry for the confusion. What I meant was, I couldn't find anything about arrays. I've used the LUA manual before :). I'll check it again about the table command. thanks for the info :)

[cancan]

table is not a command it's just the name I've used for the array example.
You can create an array called prout just by defining prout = {}. :)

[KunoNoOni]

Oh, now thats interesting. There is also a table command, thats what I thought you were talking about :). OK Thanks for the info!

[shiftybill]

can u pls post the code u use to make this work or at least dumb it down a bit for me so i understand :rolleyes:

i can only get 1 shot on screen as well

i will be adding some enemies to mine very soon too :D

[my psprecious]

here's a good tutorial on arrays

http://www.evilmana.com/tutorials/lua_tutorial_05.php