I know that too... that was intentional. Anyway, I got it to work. It had something to do with the layer name not being correct or something. I changed the layer name and changed it back and it works okay now for some reason... Anyway, yay. and thanks.

... On further review the problem is still persisting.

The System: Spawn Sprite is working in other places in the event editor.

The event is triggering, because other things I put in the same place as the System: Spawn is triggering.

It works if I use Spawn Object from another sprite instead of from System...

But it still isn't working, even when I removed the negative condition.

Thank you so much for the help and info. It alleviated and avoided much frustration.

I still used the inverse condition, just with 2 sub events instead of one.

In general though, is it better to use other positive conditions than negative ones?

Yes, removing the inverse trigger worked. Thank you. I don't exactly understand why it was the problem, but I can write the event another way. Thank you.

These events are working exactly like I would expect...

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The System: Create Object event does not appear to be creating any objects. The event is triggering though, because it does change the DEBUG text.

Also if I use a Spawn Object at Object event, it works fine. But I want to spawn the Rocket sprite relative to x, y coordinates and not another sprite.

I can't figure out why it's not working like I would expect.