help with space invaders

hello,

im working on a space invaders game. i have it so your the ship. and you shoot the enemies and they blow up.
the enemies are images and when you hit them their picture changes to a blown up skull.
i need to know how to have the laser shoot past them once they've been hit. because the picture is black and the laser
just stops on the blackness. so i need to know how to get the laser to just go by. any ideas?

hello again,

well, i figured it out. if anyone wants to know ill tell them. but i have another problem. acutally, two.
#1. how do i get the laser(an image) to go in front of a picture box?
#2. would anyone be willing to compile my game? i can't because i have the lowly learners edition and don't know where to get the standard or professional .

-well thanks

[kedaman]

Images are drawn directly on the form so you will never get it over your picturebox. Either you could use 2 images or 2 pictureboxes or draw directly on the form

[SteveCRM]

I'll compile it if you need.

hey,

cool, ill e-mail you when i get it in a winzip file.

-thanks

hey,

i got it into a winzip file.

just follow this link. and thanks again.

http://www.genevaonline.com/~dewolf/Space Invaders.zip

-thanks

-t_dawolf

nice,
just instead of using the full path of the images that arent on my computer, do this


EnemyR1(4).Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\Baddie Blows Up.bmp")

your orig code was this


EnemyR1(4).Picture = LoadPicture("c:\windows\my documents\my own games\space invadors\Baddie Blows Up.bmp")


or something similar...

other than that, pretty good game.

also, you should use some bitblt...
timers and stuff like that are slow.
bitblt is faster.

john has a good bitblt example here
http://vb-world.net/graphics/lander/

Or use DirectDraw (i think that's the name of the function).

I dont know how to use Ddraw.
and I dont have it... I have the 6.1 sdk, but I dont know how to even add it as a referance to my projects :(
till I get the latest one, and learn how to use it, I think I will stick with bitblt.
:D

I can recommend this site for you. It has a lot about VB and DirectX, plus there are a bunch of links leading to other great VB-DirectX sites.

http://www.cason.addr.com

cool,

im glad you think the game is all right. so can you compile it for me and put up a link so i can see what its like when its not running under vb? thanks

-thanks

http://denniswrenn.virtualave.net/invadors.zip