platformer problems

I can't edit my previous post anymore. I apologize for double posting.

The jump and random I mentioned above still has problems. The jump needed a 3rd event like this to work like a jump:

+ Goon Animation Jumping is playing
-> Set direction to all upward directions

There are another issues I found.

Since my walls (side), ceilings (top) and floors (ground/bottom) are backdrops. How do I stop my upward movement (when goon is jumping up) and also stop downward movement (when falling on backdrop) ? I already made the "stopping when falling down on backdrop" part, but sometimes, the goon stops when he is below the floor by a few pixels already. I already adjusted the gravity countless times but it still sometimes goes below the floor by a few pixels. About stopping when going up, I used this

+ Goon Animation Jumping is playing
+ Goon direction is any of all upward directions
+ Goon is overlapping a backdrop
-> Stop
-> Set State to Air
-> Set gravity to 20

But it prevents me from using the jump altogether

About the old damage system, can you tell me again why you are adding the direction of group "player" to its own "Deal Attack direction" ? I am confused about it. I successfully coded a simple damage system (for goon), but, the direction is based solely on the 0 to 31 value. I still want the direction of the enemy based on the player's direction (so the pushing/pulling system concept is there like I originally wanted from the start)

Edit:
I think I fixed the jump at the moment. I isolated the jump (disabled everything else) and triggered the jump by key press. I would update this post tomorrow if I successfully integrated the jump into the AI. The random issue still persists.

I'm finishing the single instance of the enemy before I try ForEach. I still have problems regarding the random(2)+1 issue. Do you know why the random is apparently not working? I also tried adding "Limit to one action if event loops" but problem still persists

Can multiple objects and/or multiple instances of same object use the timer independently?

I also looked at the ForEach example file in Examples folder. I'm not sure how to use it (for my situation) after setting the ForEach loop. Do I just add the ForEach loop condition to every single event of my enemy?

It's in my last post in page 10. Anyway I quoted it below

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I meant by "manually coded" as the jump that isn't built-in feature. I think I meant that similar to how you meant "custom movement". or did you meant "custom movement" as anything else?

http://oi60.tinypic.com/ieiera.jpg
Can you help me here? It's about the "random" again. The left half of the picture doesn't work (sometimes it doesn't work), but the right half works. But I needed to have both run and walk for left and right. It's basically for AI when the goon collided with the sensor.

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What's does the reverse function of pinball movement do? MMF2 help doesn't explain it enough for me.

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There is a trick for this with the pinball movement, use "bounce" then "stop" in the same event.

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I did just that as you said but what happens is that when the enemy still lands below the floor, the next time I press the key to jump, the enemy just moves up a few pixels (correct floor level).

What I meant is that my jump event is still isolated, everything else about the enemy is disabled. I haven't integrated the jump into the AI yet.

here is my current jump
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2w74wgn.jpg

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Not really, you would have a value on each object that acts as a timer.
Eg. set alterable value B (timer) to 1

+timer >=1
->add 1 to timer

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Sorry. I don't understand what you meant.

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For example:
T is the var to act as timer

+Condition required here to start timer
-> Set T to 1

+ T>= 1
-> add 1 to T

then
+ condition required to stop timer
-> Set T to 0

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is that what you mean?

Right now I have coded a Enemy collision box object (that acts as the goon) that has another object that acts as its appearance (Swordsman).

Can I use the same enemy collision box object (not clone) for other enemies (gunman, enemy that throws daggers)?

Right now, at start of frame, Enemy collision box object creates a swordsman object. I'm not sure how it will work if I'm working with multiple enemies using same collision box object. I might need to use that "random" function again which haven't worked for me.

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There is a trick for this with the pinball movement, use "bounce" then "stop" in the same event.

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I did just that as you said but what happens is that when the enemy still lands below the floor, the next time I press the key to jump, the enemy just moves up a few pixels (correct floor level).

What I meant is that my jump event is still isolated, everything else about the enemy is disabled. I haven't integrated the jump into the AI yet.

here is my current jump
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2w74wgn.jpg

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Yes, if you are happy for the box to have the same dimensions and values (if any). You'll still need to use spread and loop or foreach to avoid selection issues. You don't need to use random unless you want some randomness to their movement, in which case even then there are alternatives, such as x out of y chances at random.

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I meant will I need to use random for the collision box to determine which specific type of enemy object will it create? like which between swordsman and gunman enemy