I'm a Godot newbie. I'm making a top down zombie shooter game just to explore the world of game dev. While trying to make automatic rifle, I found that it shot very inconsistently. How I did it was I first created a fire rate timer which splits the shots up for a certain amount of time. Once you shot, it would start timer, shoot, and change "shooting" to true. Once the timer timed-out, it would make "shooting" false allowing you to shoot again. The pistol works fine, as it's fire rate is 0.6 seconds per shot. But when I tried the rifle, with a fire rate of 0.2 seconds, it sometimes, didn't shoot, sometimes shot, it was a mess. Here's some code;

func _ready() -> void:
    reloade = Timer.new()
    $ZombieSpawntime.start()
    firerate_timer = Timer.new()
    firerate_timer.wait_time = Global.currentGuns[2]
    firerate_timer.one_shot = true
    firerate_timer.timeout.connect(self._on_shoot_timer_timeout)
    add_child(firerate_timer)

^this was the onready function that made the timer. If your wondering what the Global. stuff is, I keep the player hot bar and guns in a nested array in a singleton.

func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
    if reloading == false and ammo_in_mag > 0 and can_shoot and (Input.is_action_pressed("space") or Input.is_action_pressed("leftclick")):
        can_shoot = false  #you can only shoot when can_shoot is true
        firerate_timer.start()
        var bullet_instance = bullet.instantiate()
        add_child(bullet_instance)
        ammo_in_mag -= 1
        $CanvasLayer/Control/Label.text = "Ammo: " + str(ammo_in_mag)

this input function controls when to shoot. It instantiates the bullet during this process.

func _on_shoot_timer_timeout(): can_shoot = true

this is the fire rate timeout function. Very simple, just enables shooting.

I've tried asking chatgpt, but he didn't give me any ideas on what to do. Since I got some of this off Youtube, I honestly can't think of another way to shoot bullets yet make it more optimized.

I'm a Godot newbie. I'm making a top down zombie shooter game just to explore the world of game dev. While trying to make automatic rifle, I found that it shot very inconsistently. How I did it was I first created a fire rate timer which splits the shots up for a certain amount of time. Once you shot, it would start timer, shoot, and change "shooting" to true. Once the timer timed-out, it would make "shooting" false allowing you to shoot again. The pistol works fine, as it's fire rate is 0.6 seconds per shot. But when I tried the rifle, with a fire rate of 0.2 seconds, it sometimes, didn't shoot, sometimes shot, it was a mess. Here's some code;

func _ready() -> void:
    reloade = Timer.new()
    $ZombieSpawntime.start()
    firerate_timer = Timer.new()
    firerate_timer.wait_time = Global.currentGuns[2]
    firerate_timer.one_shot = true
    firerate_timer.timeout.connect(self._on_shoot_timer_timeout)
    add_child(firerate_timer)

^this was the onready function that made the timer. If your wondering what the Global. stuff is, I keep the player hot bar and guns in a nested array in a singleton.

func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
    if reloading == false and ammo_in_mag > 0 and can_shoot and (Input.is_action_pressed("space") or Input.is_action_pressed("leftclick")):
        can_shoot = false  #you can only shoot when can_shoot is true
        firerate_timer.start()
        var bullet_instance = bullet.instantiate()
        add_child(bullet_instance)
        ammo_in_mag -= 1
        $CanvasLayer/Control/Label.text = "Ammo: " + str(ammo_in_mag)

this input function controls when to shoot. It instantiates the bullet during this process.

func _on_shoot_timer_timeout(): can_shoot = true

this is the fire rate timeout function. Very simple, just enables shooting.

I've tried asking chatgpt, but he didn't give me any ideas on what to do. Since I got some of this off Youtube, I honestly can't think of another way to shoot bullets yet make it more optimized.

• optimization
• timer
• godot
• godot4

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I'm not actually sure about the reason, but try to change https://docs.godotengine./en/stable/classes/class_timer.html#class-timer-property-process-callback . Timer is updated every physics frame, it's stated so in the docs. I wonder what happens if we process it every frame.