I know the general differences between key down and key pressed, but I'm curious as to the reason why something like this wouldn't work:

If VARIABLE = 0,

On 1 pressed, set VARIABLE to 1   

If VARIABLE = 1,

On 1 pressed, set VARIABLE to 2

The VARIABLE goes straight to 2. Can anyone explain why this happens, and if it can be averted through on 1 DOWN (and if so, why that is)?

I figured it out, but am still having an issue. I had to set the BadGuy is X Frozen as a sub-event. The only issue now is it still effects every instance. Isn't this the point of instance variables? Or am I still doing it wrong?

I've been trying to fix this for almost an hour now.

<img src="http://stevemazzaro.com/instancevariable.png" border="0" />

As you see in the picture, I'm trying to make the enemy stop the "ChasePlayer" function when the BadGuy instance variable "Frozen" is set to false.

The weird thing is, if I revert the X Frozen to "BadGuy is Frozen", it works (just the opposite of what I want and still affects all BadGuy instances).

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

I've also used a global variable to test it, and the global variable worked (but stops every BadGuy instead of the one that it hit). On top of that, I've created a text box to see if the collision is changing the instance variable, and it IS changing, but the target is still chasing the player regardless.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Steve

Just something to be aware of - we've determined that the Browser > Close function does not always work with the node-kit exporter. It will sometimes close it, but will most of the time crash the game.

You're right - I can't believe I missed this. You can't use a function while utilizing instance variables :).

Much appreciated!

Just bumping this post - I've been trying different methods and nothing seems to be working. None of the other pick instance threads seem to cover this, either.

The best way to put what I'm trying to achieve is to create a bunch of instances of 1 object and control them as if they were all separate objects (without having to make separate objects).

Is this perhaps not possible?

Windows 7 here.

I've read every forum and tutorial I could find on the matter, but I cannot figure out how to pick specific instances of a single sprite object.

I've created a variable instance called "Instance" for each object instance and set a specific number to each for recall. But when I do a command such as "If Sprite's "Instance" = 1, do this ; If Sprite's "Instance" = 2, do this", it does the same thing for all instances.

Any idea why this is happening?

Try changing "every tick - subtract 1 to seconds" to "every "1" second - subtract 1 to seconds".

I second this.

Forgive my ignorance, but even thought the node-kit export is an *.exe, is the game still browser based?

This is actually quite an eye opener - now I have to go back and check all my coding where I did weird stuff in order to make it work!

Thanks so much for this!

As do I - but I know I've had it work before, it might just be inconsistent?