An Issue with Enemy Movement

So, I've been trying to figure out how to make one of my enemies randomly move either vertically or horizontally at random after stopping for 1 second at a time. I had what I believed was the proper event sheet, but it doesn't seem to be working at all; the enemy is still idle. I've attached a link to a picture of the event sheet. Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Looks like I cant post links. The image is on imgur dot com slash ao6NG1C

I think what you need to do is make an instance variable, and set it to 0. Make an event that if the variable is at 0 then every x seconds it randomly chooses 1-4. Use the numbers to simulate the directions, then after another x seconds it changes back to 0. Hope this helps.

Thats essentially what I did, but it doesnt work at all.

you can get around the posting of links by adding spaces into your link eg ht tps://w ww.scirra. com/forum/

anyway this is one way

This will give me something to start with, thanks!

Now, I changed the ES so that instead of changing the X and Y values, which make the movement look choppy, I simulated an 8-directional movement. Is there any way for me to only have it simulate a certain direction for a particular amount of time or pixels?

Never mind. I used the bullet behavior to achieve this action.