Need help with weapon.autofire

[erest0r]

Hello i'm having a problem with attribute autofire in a Phaser.Weapon, i set it to true but it doesn't start to fire, i tried that in the page example: http://phaser.io/examples/v2/weapon/fire-rate#gv and added this line in the create method after creating the weapon.

weapon.autofire = true;

 But it doesn't work.

[Clem]

Actually what you have to do is to start the "first" fire by yourself with a "weapon.fire();". Then if the autofire is set to "true", the weapon will fire again depending on the "weapon.fireRate".

[erest0r]

Sorry man, it's not working, click on the link i provided and try it yourself.

[Clem]

It took me a little time to figure it out but now I have the solution ! Actually the way "autofire" works is pretty weird but it makes sense somehow... To make it work you have to :

- Set your "weapon.fireRate" in the "create" function, for example set it to 1000 to have a new shot each 1000 ms (1 s)

- Set "weapon.autofire" to true, in the "create" function

- Then in the "update" function, you have to put a weapon.fire(); And what will happen next is that the weapon will only shoot each 1000 ms (1 s).