Same Sprite Multiple Containers

Hey,

I have a bunch of enemy types that I want to share the same health and shield meter sprites.

As I can't add the same sprite to each enemy's container I was wondering if there was a way I could achieve something similar without having to have a bunch of different health bar sprites? If I have to have a specific life bar sprite or shield sprite for every enemy my project it going to get a little unmanageable.

Appreciate any help you guys can give, you already sorted my first problem in record time.

shewhorn - Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but what I've been doing for something similar is to give my enemies a "Healthbar" instance variable, and giving my Healthbars the pin behaviour. Instead of using containers, I just pin the healthbar to the enemy and assign the UID to enemies "Healthbar" variable. Then it's just a matter of picking your Healthbar object by UID when you need to do anything with it.

It obviously takes a little more manual work than containers in that you have to create them manually at the same time as your enemy, but it's really only an extra action or two...

Awesome, thanks!

I now have a huge pile of things generic to each enemy that now just handle themselves without having a million different sprites about.

For anyone else, basically I do:

On enemyfamily create -> Spawn healthbar

                   Spawn shield

                   Spawn other things

                   Set healthbar ID to enemy.UID

I then do a for each healthbar with

enemyfamilypick instance with UID healthbar ID

Works great and means that my event sheet is a lot smaller as is the list of objects in my project.