Thanks for the advice NetOne it's working exactly the same, even if I switch the order BUT!

I found that if I give them a longer wait 2-4 seconds, and shorter pick every 1-2 seconds, they start switching between them.

It's not perfect but it works for now, I tested it with 4 Enemies, and then with something like 12

The reason I'm saying it's not perfect is because it can randomly choose only once... the long wait delay gives a tiny spare illusion, so even with 12 enemies on the screen I can notice average of 1 or 2 stops.

I also tried it without random, with shorter amount of seconds as well (1 second) so I know it's only affecting 1 at the time instead of POWER-UP the action on every single enemy separately.

I'll try some more tests and maybe I'll get it, I think I'm pretty close to the solution but not there yet.

Hi All,

So I'm making some tests to make my most simple Enemy acts a bit more random by stop, select random direction, then keep going.

But, I want it to affect EVERY SINGLE of the enemies separate instead of ALL AT ONCE.

So I've added FOR EACH GooE (enemy's name) but the result now is that it will affect ONLY ONE of them to do these actions, instead all of them at it's own time randomly.

How can I make it so it won't affect just ONE of them but all of them in separate random time?

Here is my first attempt with FOR EACH on this event:

EDIT: I'm getting closer...

So, I replaced the FOR EACH with 'Pick a Random' GooE, and now it works better.

It's actually picking a random instance of the enemies, no matter how many I spawn which is great.

But it's limiting to only 1 enemy at a time, instead of randomly affect the number of enemies or less.

So if I have 4 enemies, I want it to affect more than just one of them at the same time:

Thanks — for your advice!

I didn't see a loading bar using F4, and the problem solved somehow... when I restarted Construct 3.

Everything loaded smooth and fast with the sounds. I'm not sure what cause this I hope it won't happen again so I won't need to restart Construct 3 everytime while working on the game, I will have to see if this happens again or not, but from your explanation I understood that the sounds already pre-loaded so it can't be the reason, it's not loading it as I start playing.

You did encourage me to explore how to make my own Progress Bar / Loading Layout as the very first screen of my game. I will check it out hope it's not too complicated to create.

For now I have only 1 layout for the game itself, and many other layouts for sake of organization some of them have only the Enemies, Other have Items, so every one have it's own dedicated Event Sheet and all events included in the actual "GAME Stage" Layout, loaded at the top.

It's a bit off-topic but I hope that I'm thinking correct about the order of my layouts:

1 - Loading Layout = Custom progress bar & graphics, if I'll find out how to do that of course)

2 - Main Title Screen Layout = Press START to play / Options / Credits etc..

3 - First Stage Layout = Probably All X Stages in the same HUGE Layout, Camera will change direction to the other Stage.

4 - Extra Layouts = Option Menu / Settings for different controls such as Sounds / Music / Full Screen etc.. I didn't explore this part yet.

The thing is:

I'm not sure if I'll even SEE the Loading Layout screen... since I only have 1 stage now, it will probably faster and skip it right away.

Is there a way to cheat and SEE the Loading Layout Screen when running the game? some kind of secret debug-cheat? maybe... using "wait" ?

What do you think, also if you have any tips related to this I'll appreciate it.

Thanks for taking the time and making an example!

I tried to simplify it like in your example, but I get some weird result now it only sometimes... play a destroyed sound, and sometimes none.

I got rid of the "choose" to make it just playing 1 sound to be sure but same result.

I also tried to walk around using a Boolean of true / false but I get the same result as well.

It's already too late for my brain to try figure it out (about 3:32am) so I guess I'll try it in another time, I didn't realize it will be so complex but maybe that's a good thing, more dynamic options to play with, once I'll get the hang of it. :)

Thank you so much for your kind help!

I'm still not used to the new forums, this is what I do for the images:

 [img]https://i.imgur.com/H3EAgW7.png[/img] 

but it's not really working, I probably do something wrong that's why I added the space, so it will be clickable. (I can't even show that I use the img open and close here, I tried to edit but no luck)

EDIT: OK, got it Scirra needs to fix the top icon shortcut for images because it's:

 [img=https://i.imgur.com/H3EAgW7.png] 

About the destroyed crate: I have the crate it's dedicated destroy event on a different event sheet, and it uses the built-in Destroyed when the fade out is finished. as you can see on the image attached.

it's destroyed for sure because before that I could see the latest frame of the crates pieces.

What else can I try?

Thanks for the help!

So, I tried to do what you suggested on the HIT (only once) and it didn't work with the invert sub event and the one after.

But it did work just with the simple Trigger Once at the end of the event.

The other problem, I hope I can describe it with my bad English:

When the crate breaks it's hp <= 0 it plays the "Crate_Breaks" tag (since I have few files, same with the hit).

The problem is if I keep Attacking (it's a melee sprite attack playing), I can hear the Crate destroyed more than once, I did use the "Trigger Only Once" so it works for the part of not repeating it 60fps but when I keep attacking while the Animation of the Breaking Crate is playing... it will play the "Crate_Breaks" audio again...

So it does Trigger Only Once related to how many times it plays when I first destroy the crate, but not Playing Once even after the Crate is already destroyed.

While I'm playing around with invert options, I attached the current condition so you can have a look:

https://i.imgur.com/Fmqfyv6.png[/img]