Enhancing Game Play: Creating a Scoring Engine, Adding Treasure and an Enemy Auto-Attack Engine - Beginning Java 8 Games Development - page 601

Figure 17-41 . Add randomLocation, randomOffset, bulletRange, and bulletOffset variables to control bullet place-
ment
Also notice, at the bottom of Figure 17-41 , we've also added an
if(shootBullet){shootProjectile();} conditional if structure to the bot-
tom of the .update() method, as well as adding a boolean shootBullet =
false; declaration at the top of the Enemy.java class. Before we code the .shootPro-
jectile() method, let's add the shootBullet flag settings to the .initiateAttack() method,
as well as setting a bulletOffset X location for the bullet, in if(!onScreen) .
Invoking a .shootProjectile() Method: Setting
shootBullet to True
Inside each of the if(takeSides) conditional if-else structures, in the else portion of the
statement, add a bulletOffset variable setting ( 480 or 120 ) and set shootBullet equal to
true . The Java code, seen in Figure 17-42 , will look like this:
if(takeSides) {
spriteFrame.setScaleX(1);
this.setIsFlipH(false);