I'm interested in this as well

anyone any ideas?

Well, this works if you don't use Anchor

If you do use it you cant move the sprite.

I think the anchor behavior should be tweaked

If you share the capx I'll try to help

Just save it as single file

Well that's the right thing to do

You can make it when player is hit to subtract 1 from health

and as you posted when health is=0 or <1 or whatever, then destroy

Well it cant work that way

You have 3 different sprites and you pick random instance from the first sprite

Best way in my opinion is to make the button to be only 1 sprite with 3 different frames

Place the 3 instances of that sprite and make them to be the 3 different frames

And then you can do like this:

If Sprite is on frame : random(0,2) then make invisible

Hope it works

Yup my bad

It works with frames but don't seems to work with animations

Anyways here is the solution... its kinda clumsy but still works

dl.dropbox.com/u/19082408/123.capx

I have started it you should finish the rest

You need that expression

random(0,2)

When you create a sprite, it creates the sprites it contains

So the weapon or whatever will be created along with the character

I think what u need is Z order plugin

It is available even to the free edition i think

It makes all the sprites in the current layer to arrange along Z based on the X and Y coordinates

So when the origin of a sprite is at position Y-100 for example, all sprites that are Y<100 will be placed behind that sprite and all that are Y>100 will go over it

Hope it helps

Ill try to explain this

You have conditions and you have actions

It works like: If (condition), then (action)

In your case i would do the following

Attach an empty sprite to the position of the character

Set action that Sets angle toward Mouse.X/Mouse.Y

Now you have the emty sprite rotating toward the mouse

If the 8 directions of the character are 8 different animations, then set the following event:

IF: System, Every tick /THEN: "Character sprite" Set Animation

and in Animation tipe "round(EmtySprite.Angle/45)"

that makes the angle from 0 to 44 = 0, 45 to 89 = 1, 90 to 134 = 2 and so on.

So now when the angle is within 0 - 44 you get 0, which is animation 0

Hope you understand it

BTW i dont know if thats the best way but i'm just trying to help.

Cheers

Most likely you adress all the balls

You should make the action like this

If "bullet" overlaps "Balloon"

then destroy balloon and spawn 2 new balloons

if that is one action, then it will take only the balloon that is hit, not the others.

Not sure but hope it answers your issue

cheers

Well doesn't sound so messy to me

The 2 small balloons should be 2 instances of the same sprite, so they can act independent.