Player Lives not working correctly & bullets not lining up with player's ship.

Hey DarkProgrammer,

One of ways to fix the life-related bug and to give yourself an easier time is to streamline a sequence of related actions into one fastloop.

For example, you have it when the "Player_StarFighter" collides with a specific object, the following happens:

• the specific object is destroyed
• A life is lost/subtracted
• The "Explosion" sample plays
• An "Explosion_Object" is created on the player
• The "Player_StarFighter" is destroyed
• The "Player_Respawn_Timer" is set to a specified value (300)

The bottom 5 actions (bolded) could be grouped into one fastloop. Whenever this fastloop is ran, the program immediately performs the set of actions under the fastloop. This lets you program any series of actions once rather than multiple times.

Here is what the events look like streamlined with fastloops.

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Furthermore, events 20 - 22 could be consolidated into 1 event by putting the "Asteroid", "Enemy_UFO_Bullet", and "Enemy_UFO" into the Obstacle Qualifier; as shown below.

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This effectively states that if the Player collides with any object which is tagged as an "Obstacle", that object is destroyed and the "lose_life" fastloop runs.

Why Does this Happen?

This happens because there are actually 2 "Player_Starfigher objects created initially. One is created during edittime. The other is created from event 25
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This event is true at the start of the frame so one instance of the object is created right on the first instance. You can correct this by adding a "Number of 'Player_StarFighter' objects = 0" to the condition as shown below.

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Summary

The only thing wrong was event 25. However you can make your code cleaner and give yourself an easier time by consolidating those "Collision between 'Player_StarFighter' and 'Object X' " into fastloops and qualifiers.

Yeah, you can search of the forums about "Fastloops" or "Immediate Conditions".

You could also try checking out this Please login to see this link.. Though this goes over immediate conditions in general, I think it might have what you'll want to know about fastloops.

Creating Fast Loop

Fastloops are found under the "Special Conditions Object." You execute the loop with the "Start loop" action.

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After you call a loop, you need to use the "On Loop" condition within the "Special Conditions Object" execute actions under the loop.

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I don't want to undermine what Prodigy said BUT in this case adding fastloops might make things more complicated than they need to be, especially for someone who is new to this stuff.

How to fix the lives problem: Add the condition "only one action when event loops" to each of your death scenarios and it will fix the problem. It fixed it for me.

How to fix the ship alignment: The reason why it appears that the bullet isn't aligned is because you have only 8 directional animations for your ship but the game is still calculating a full range of motion when determining where the bullet will emerge. In other words, your ship is technically "turned" enough to fire a bullet at a slant, however it isn't turned enough to switch to the next directional animation. Change the number of directional animations to the max and it will give a much more accurate depiction.

In the animation editor, look under the 8 direction indicator that contains the ship animations. There is a slider that you can drag left and right. Drag it all the way to the right to maximize directional slots for animations, then right click one of the ship animations and tell it to create rotated animations for all empty slots.