I know I'm going to feel stupid about this, but I can't seem to figure what's going on. This is a fun project so there's no
URGENCY whatsoever. Basically, I wrote a little framework for someone here at the ranch for a space
applet. I've been playing with it and (not to slap myself on the back) it's really cool how simple it is to add objects to the animation scene and give them all sorts of behavior. Anyway I have an explosion sequence, where a ship breaks apart, what is actually happening in the code is the ship creates four new scene objects and removes itself from the scene. The aft debris section where the engine is located I have firing randomly at a 1/20 probabilty. It works fine at first, but after a while the engine comes on and stays on. Anyway here's the pertinent code:
Thanks in advance.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Ernst F. Schumacher