Enemy Bullet Error

[Sonic]

Hello, I am having trouble coding my game so the enemy will shoot bullets towards the player. I have looked through videos and the forum to no avail. If you could help me out, I'd appreciate it.

Here is my code:

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platform                   = {}
player                     = {}
enemy                      = {}
enemies                    = {}
enemies_controller         = {}
enemies_controller.enemies = {}

function love.load()
  
  background = love.graphics.newImage('background.png')
  
	platform.width = love.graphics.getWidth()
	platform.height = love.graphics.getHeight()
 
	platform.x = 0
	platform.y = platform.height / 2
 
	player.x = love.graphics.getWidth() / 2
	player.y = love.graphics.getHeight() / 2.05
 
	player.speed = 200
 
	player.img = love.graphics.newImage('sprite.png')
 
	player.ground = player.y
 
	player.y_velocity = 0
 
	player.jump_height = -300
	player.gravity = -500
  
  enemy.x = love.graphics.getWidth() / 2.05
  enemy.y = love.graphics.getHeight() / 2.05
  
  enemy.img = love.graphics.newImage('sprite2.png')
  
  enemy.ground = player.y
 
  enemy.y_velocity = 0
  
  enemy.bullets  = {}
  enemy.cooldown = 30
  enemy.fire     = function()
      bullet = {}
      bullet.x = enemy.x
      bullet.y = 243
      table.insert(enemy.bullets, bullet)
    end
end
 
function love.update(dt)
  
	if love.keyboard.isDown('d') then
		if player.x < (love.graphics.getWidth() - player.img:getWidth()) then
			player.x = player.x + (player.speed * dt)
		end
	elseif love.keyboard.isDown('a') then
		if player.x > 0 then 
			player.x = player.x - (player.speed * dt)
		end
	end
 
	if love.keyboard.isDown('space') then
		if player.y_velocity == 0 then
			player.y_velocity = player.jump_height
		end
	end
 
	if player.y_velocity ~= 0 then
		player.y = player.y + player.y_velocity * dt
		player.y_velocity = player.y_velocity - player.gravity * dt
	end
 
	if player.y > player.ground then
		player.y_velocity = 0
    	player.y = player.ground
	end
end

 if love.keyboard.isDown('e') then
   enemy.fire()
 end
 
function love.draw()
  
  love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
  love.graphics.draw(background, 1, 1, 0, 1.6, 1.2, 3)
  
	love.graphics.setColor(50, 100, 150)
	love.graphics.rectangle('fill', platform.x, platform.y, platform.width, platform.height)
 
  love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
	love.graphics.draw(player.img, player.x, player.y, 0, 1, 1.4, 0, 32)
  
  love.graphics.draw(enemy.img, 10, 243, 0, 1.1, 1.5)
  
  -- draw bullets
  love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
  for _,v in pairs(enemy.bullets) do
    love.graphics.rectangle("fill", v.x, v.y, 10, 5)
  end
end

Thanks in advance.

[Sir_Silver]

I've pulled up your code in an editor and after messing with it for a little while, I found more questions than answers. On of the first things I noticed was that you needed to put

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 if love.keyboard.isDown('e') then
   enemy.fire()
 end

inside of love.update.

That begs the next question though, why is the player getting to tell the enemy when to fire? It's not my game, maybe there's a good reason for it, but it doesn't seem right.

The next thing I noticed is that when the bullets spawn, they spawn at enemy.x but they seemingly come out of nowhere, and that's because your rendering of the enemy, and its actual position in the world are not the same - they probably should be.

So this line needs some work

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love.graphics.draw(enemy.img, 10, 243, 0, 1.1, 1.5)

But to answer the question you had, you need to determine the angle between the player and the enemy when you create a bullet, and then make it so that the bullets move in the direction given by the angle by a given speed, one way to do that would be something like this:

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enemy.fire = function()
    bullet = {
        x = enemy.x,
        y = enemy.y,
        angle = math.atan2(player.y - enemy.y, player.x - enemy.x),
        speed = 20
    }

    table.insert(enemy.bullets, bullet)
end

This gives the bullets an angle and a speed, now they know what direction to travel in and how quickly to travel in that direction. Finally, we need to update the bullets so that they move.

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function love.update(dt)
	--your existing code
    for _, bullet in pairs(enemy.bullets) do
        bullet.x = bullet.x + math.cos(bullet.angle) * bullet.speed
        bullet.y = bullet.y + math.sin(bullet.angle) * bullet.speed
    end

Here is a .love which includes the changes I've mentioned (as well as my own sprites because I didn't have the sprites you had [which is why .love files are important])

game.love

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