[9] Let's Make a Godot Space Shooter: Firing Cooldown

We delay the firing of our bullets to add a fire cooldown effect to the ship! Let’s Make a Godot Space Shooter together - a series covering basic Godot concepts and workflows to create a full PC, mobile, and controller-supported game!
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[@lukeydoo]

Another thing you can do is change 'Input.is_action_pressed()' to 'Input.is_action_just_pressed()' which makes it so only one bullet gets shot everytime you press the button. You can't hold it down to keep shooting though.

[@wienerbrod9119]

In case anyone has a problem with the timer not finishing, make sure to enable "one shot" in the timer node settings

[@jimmyu4829]

Man, I'm so thankful for these videos. I love how you break down and explain what's happening and don't just give us the code to use and forget later. Keep up the good work and thanks a lot!

[@lemetamax]

So much knowledge!!😁 Nice tutorial as always.

[@thienhuynh3279]

keep it up!! ur video is very helpful and worth to watch. I wish u all the best and release more tutorials of godit !

[@adamsmith7719]

Super appreciate the tutorial! This was super helpful

[@Tenkite001]

Dude i love u, i Washington searching how to do it for so long thanks !
(It work on godot 4 btw)

[@geckokun2805]

You just saved my ass. Thank you so much!

[@shrippie-4214]

Thanks bro

[@jroseme]

Weird bug I experienced..updating the fireDelay in script wasn't doing anything. Once I messed with the fireDelay in Inspector...seemed to fix whatever was going on.

[@user-ke3st6jn9g]

I try to use wait time in Timer, not define firedely in code. It seems also OK

[@pol9571]

Hi. What if i want to shoot the bullets in where my character/player is facing? how would I do it?

[@johnn1199]

This tutorial has been great, even though it's several years old now and some things within Godot have changed. I seem to have bodged this step though; can't get the Timer to work. I've probably done something stupid, but does anyone have any ideas? The debugger is returning nothing. EDIT: Yep, being stupid. Left out the closed brackets after ".is_stopped():"

[@yashrajbasan4097]

better to use Input.is_action_just_pressed

[@rfvdnsyt-teamtactics6107]

Error on the firedekaycode

[@user-ki4hk2fk2z]

I'm first

[@diniszhu3845]

hey, i need help

[@vermiman]

if Input.is_action_pressed("shoot") and fireDelayTimer.is_stopped():
for child in firingPositions.get_children():
if child.functioning:
fireDelayTimer.start(fireDelay)
var bullet = plBullet.instance()
bullet.global_position = child.global_position
get_tree().current_scene.add_child(bullet)

[@geckokun2805]

You just saved my ass. Thank you so much!