Huh, that was indeed the issue. But I have no recollection of making the mouse 1 into a container. Very weird. Oh well, thanks for the heads-up!

I'm trying to have 2 different enemies on screen. I'm using EnemyBox to handle the bullet movement, with an animated sprite Mouse pinned for the animations... pretty standard. See the code snippet below.

EnemyBox1 has Mouse1 pinned, EnemyBox2 has Mouse2 pinned and will have different specs. On the layout I have many instances of EnemyBox1 and EnemyBox2, but only 1 instance each of the mice.

Here's the weird part. For EVERY EnemyBox1, the game is pinning an instance of Mouse1, so there's a horde of them. For EnemyBox2, only one instance of Mouse2 is getting pinned to EnemyBox2, and the other EnemyBox2's are empty.

The code above is the ONLY code dealing with pinning the mice. So why are they behaving differently? EnemyBox2 and Mouse2 are both clones of the 1st version, so they have all the exact same parameters. I honestly don't know which is the correct, expected behavior given the code I'm using.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

What I suggested works if you have 'set angle' ticked on the bullet properties, which is the default. If you unticked then it won't work, it will just change the angle of the object and not the angle of motion with it.

Huh. You're right. I think my problem was that I was spawning an object that was not previously in the layout, and there didn't appear to be any way to "check" that box with just the code (maybe I'm just overlooking it). Without making any changes to my code, I just dragged an instance of the bullet into the layout, and everything started working correctly. Thanks!

Ready to hear the DUMB thing I did? I had the choose X option set to 1100 right?

My layout is 1024 wide.

I thought I had it set to 1280. DOH!

Couple that with a "destroy outside layout" behavior, and yeah, my right-side baddies were nowhere to be found.

All fixed now, and working exactly as intended.

I beleive what you are looking for is the random function. In your case, random(100-1100).

Choose only puts it at one of the set values, not a range.

No, I need it to be at 100 or at 1100 specifically. Nowhere in between.

I have a System event that every few seconds creates a sprite on screen. I'm trying to have the X location choose between the left or right side of the screen by having the X coordinate be "choose(100,1100)".

The code works..... but ALWAYS places the sprite at the 100 location and never the 1100 location.

Am I using this wrong or what?

Good.

Grief.

I have NEVER noticed that stupid arrow before. I didn't know you could nest like that. > INSERT FACEPALM HERE <

Thanks!

I have looked and looked and looked, and for the life of me I CANNOT figure out how the Pacman-esque player is controlled. It basically has one behavior, Bullet, and a handful of variables attached, but I can't find ANYTHING anywhere else in the game that even addresses the Player, other than a life count. Somehow the buttons are affecting the player's bullet behavior, and something is causing the player to slide from one tilespace to the next and stop, but WHERE IS IT??? At my wits end here over a stinkin pacman game.

I know this is probably the noob-est of questions, but I'm trying to calculate the relative distance between 2 sprites, and I know the formula is basically:

distance(sprite1.x,sprite1.y,sprite2.x,sprite2.y)

....but I haven't figured out where this code goes. I've not been able to find any examples of how it's implemented. If someone could show me an example, I'd be grateful.