Enemy Missile Event

Enemy missiles travel down the screen quite quickly, when they are spawned by an Enemy we pass the enemies direction of travel to the missile and then make the missile veer either left or right accordingly, so if the enemy was going left when they fired the missile then the missile will also veer left.

EVENT SPRITETYPE3
;=======  ENEMY MISSILES   ============
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; VARIABLES
; =======================================================
; DIRECTION	-	DIRECTION OF ENEMY TRAVEL WHEN RELEASED
; SETTINGA	-	availabe for use in your game
; SETTINGB	-	availabe for use in your game
; AIRBORNE	-	availabe for use in your game	
; JUMPSPEED	-	availabe for use in your game
; ========================================================


SPRITEINK 71					; bright white
SPRITEDOWN					; go down fast (3 times
SPRITEDOWN
SPRITEDOWN
IF DIRECTION = 0				; was alien going down when fired?
ELSE							; if so, do nothing
	IF DIRECTION < 8			; was alien going right?
		SPRITERIGHT			; make missile veer right
	ELSE
		IF DIRECTION = 8		; was alien going straight up?
		ELSE					; do nothing
		SPRITELEFT			; alien was going left, veer missile left
		ENDIF
	ENDIF
ENDIF


IF COLLISION PLAYER			; has missile collided with player?
	IF X > M					; is missile to the right of player?
		SUBTRACT M FROM X	; subtract M to find out how far to the right
		IF RND <= 10			; its a hit!
			OTHER			; switch to the player
			LET DIRECTION = 99 	; trigger the player explosion
			ENDSPRITE			; switch back to this event
			LET DIRECTION = 99	; explode the missile
		ENDIF
		ADD M TO X
	ELSE						; not to the right
		IF X < M				; is missile to the left?	
			SUBTRACT X FROM M	; yes, how far to left?
			IF M <= 8		; its a hit!
				OTHER		;switch to the player
				LET DIRECTION = 99 ; trigger the player explosion
				ENDSPRITE		; switch back to this event
				LET DIRECTION = 99 ; explode the missile
			ENDIF
			ADD X TO M			; reset M
		ELSE					; must have been a direct hit
			OTHER				; switch to the player
			LET DIRECTION = 99	; trigger the player explosion
			ENDSPRITE			; switch back to this event
		ENDIF
	ENDIF   	  
ENDIF

IF DIRECTION = 99				; Explosion requested
	LET TYPE = 6				; switch to the explosion type
	LET IMAGE = 4				; and explosion image
	LET FRAME = 0				; and the first frame
	LET DIRECTION = 2		; and tell the explosion its an enemy missile
ENDIF

IF Y >= 188					; has missile reached bottom of the screen
	REMOVE					; remove it
	SUBTRACT 1 FROM S			; decrement the sprite counter
ENDIF