More concise way to code this?

Hi guys

Just wondering whether anyone could give me any tips on a more concise way to code the snippet in the screen grab attached.

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I'm confused, why is the Name condition even there if the action is exactly the same every time? Just take it out and have one event?

Ohhh are you trying to pick each individual monster eye by name? So that each eye blinks on its own random timer?

OK try this.

Give the MonsterEye an instance variable, we'll call it randomBlink.

Then in events:

Every 1 seconds: MonsterEye add random(1,5) to variable randomBlink

MonsterEye randomBlink>=10: set animation to Animation2, set randomBlink = 0

Just change the second line to whatever number to control the frequency of the blinks

You could give MonsterEye the Timer behaviour and each could restart with a new random timeout.

i agree with blackhornet. seems like the easiest way to control what each instance does.

Hi Guys

Thank you very much for all your help! You guys are awesome

I've ended up using blackhornet 's suggestion. It works exactly as I need, and with only 2 lines of code.

1. I give the monster eye a timer behaviour,

2. On Start of Layout, I start the timer with a random timeout.

3. On timeout I switch to the blink animation.

The timer sets up different random number for each instance, which is exactly what I need

Thank you again!