Adding behaviors to families

Hi.. I have a medium problem ... my game is based on 5 bugs to be eaten... for ex. on level 1 you need to eat 2 bugs #1, 2 bugs #2 and 2 bugs #2... Level 3, 2 of #1, 3 of #2, 4 of #3 and 3 of #4 ... so .. the more you go up in levels, more types of bugs you need to eat.. but always using those 5 bugs.. SOOOOO I decided to create 3 families of bugs.. one with bugs 1-3 .. one with bugs 1-4 and one with bugs 1-5.. I've added a bullet behavior to each families, so I can create them randomly.. The problem i am facing now is that even though the behaviors are applied only at the families, the bugs inherits of them... SOOO.. now bug #1 has 3 bullets behaviors!!! so you can just image the speed at which its coming at me!!!

the other options is to import the bugs 5 times, and make families out of unique bugs id, but i feel that this is not optimized to keep the game's bytes size low..

any thoughts?

thx

Marc.

you can set them to be disabled or enabled using events

Only give the family that has ALL the bug types the behaviors you want them ALL to have. If the 1-5 family has the behavior, all the objects in the family have the behavior so adding the behavior to the 1-3 and 1-4 types is redundant. You would only use the lower level families to spawn the bugs while the higher family would do all the processing.

Only give the family that has ALL the bug types the behaviors you want them ALL to have. If the 1-5 family has the behavior, all the objects in the family have the behavior so adding the behavior to the 1-3 and 1-4 types is redundant. You would only use the lower level families to spawn the bugs while the higher family would do all the processing.

What he said ^^

Also I would like to add that you may only need 1 family for all of the bugs, then add/check for an instance variable to determine what type of bug it is

FragFather.. I don't think this will work for this extra reason I didn't mention.. the speed of the bullet is set randomly at the create object event... So I set for ex. family03.bulletSpeed to X ... if there is no behavior on the family I won't be able to do this won't I ? it would only work on family 5...

Bonesey.. I thought of that, but I thought that would slow down the system, since the bugs are generated randomly, I'd need to create a loop that would generate a bug, check it,s instance, then destroy it if it,s not in the range, then recrate one..!!!

Sgn15 ... are you talking about the families or the behaviors??? I tried to set the parameters of all the bullets to 0, then change it at the time of creation, that didn't work... If there is a way to disable the Behaviors, can you tell me how??

while writing, I thought of something along the lines of Bonesey... I can create events that would generate a random number from 0-2, 0-3 or 0-5 depending on the level, then use only 1 family with all 5 bugs and createObjectInstance X ... I think that could work!

thanks all for your inputs!!! greatly appreciated...