I've had an issue for a while that I normally found a work-around for, but I'm still rather curious; When I have an event such as :

if ROCK on collision with FLOOR

Create ROCK death sprite

Destroy ROCK

It doesn't seem to work right if 2 rocks hit the floor at the same time (it will destroy both of them, but it won't create a rock death sprite on both). I've noticed this on other occasions as well:

if ENEMY is playing animation "Shoot" and = frame 3

Create Projectile

If 2 enemies are on screen, playing the animation simultaneously, only one will shoot (usually the first on screen). However if I offset the animation by 1 frame, both shoot the projectile fine.

I'm just trying to wrap my head around why this is happening.

BluePhaze,

I'm sorry, but it seems incredibly silly to make something like a menu or interactive controls that will be used on every layout, and instead of using #Includes, copy/paste the events to 100+ event sheets.

Roccinio - the reason I don't want to do that is if I want to change something that happens in all 100 of those levels, I would have to change the event 100 times...for each time I wanted to change it (sometimes I can't make up my mind!)

DAG Yes - all of my layouts are using a "Main" event sheet, and then subsequent event sheets for the specifics levels.

Roccinio - the thing is, I don't want the global variable to change. It widely affects other events, and switching it to 1 when changing the layout will ultimately re-trigger the event anyway when switching it back to 0.

Everytime I go to another layout while having an event such as:

If GlobalVariable1 = 0)

Destroy the world

Every time the layout switches, it rechecks to see if this variable is 0 (and if it is, it destroys the world...again). Is there a way to avoid something like this?

— - I can, I'm just trying to simplify my code instead of going through and finding each time something like this is created (which happens on multiple separate events/sheets)

ikke2902 - I think I see what you're saying. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks everyone.

Doc Ai - it's too large too post, this is the best I can do :

If this were to work, this is what I would be trying to do.

ikke2902 - Hmm, it was a good idea, but it's not working for what I need it to do.

In order to save hundreds of lines of code, I need to check if a variable is = to something, and if so, when "sprite1" is created, create an additional sprite on top of it. I tried using what you did, ikke, but it only worked for the first sprite created until all of them were destroyed (I needed to add a trigger once to the variable check). I tried taking away the trigger once and it worked, but instead created the new sprite every tick which isn't what I want, either.

I'm quite stumped on this one.

I'm noticing that when doing an "On Created" event, it's not actually picking that specific instance. Is there a way to do this?

Ashley

KFC

Perfect. I will have to do some research. Thanks!

Ashley

If you scroll to 1:00 or so, how would we do something like this, then? (and btw, this is an example from the game you referenced in the "remember not to waste your memory" blog)

eli0s - ah good find! I thought it was during the move, so I tried the wait action AFTER the set animation, which obviously didn't work. Thanks!