Re: Bombers stop in the air if they detonate

[David Philippi]

On Saturday 05 October 2002 01:43, Gervase Lam wrote:
> I did a quick hack in order to experiment with this solution.  From a code
> point of view it works very well.

Good start. :-)

> However, the overall effect I am getting is that a falling Bomber hits the
> ground or drowns before it explodes.  The reason is because by the time it
> has fallen two-thirds of a screen (i.e. The entrance platform to the water
> in Evil in the Dark), only 5 frames of the bomber has been done out of the
> "15" frames.
> I don't think reducing the number of frames for a bomber is the right
> thing to do.  Other than that, I don't know what I should do about this.

The question is - what do we want? Do we want bombers to explode ever or do 
we want one of the following:
- bombers crashing to ground for whatever reason die before they explode
- they explode the moment they hit ground

I guess at least for the Drown case - this should happen. An explosion under 
water shouldn't gain the player much, it's not very destructive in reality 
and water "extinguishing" the Bomber is ok for me.

Bye David