Problems with many objects

[Pkeod]

I have a game where bullets follow a shadow. When the shadow's travel % is greater than 50% (to prevent this event from going off when the bullet is launched as at this point the bullet and shadow are at 0,0 of the player and are colliding for a few moments after that), when the bullet is overlapping with the shadow, and then when the bullet and shadow = the same spread value then destroy the bullet and shadow and create a collision effect.

The problem with this is that if the player shoots many bullets at a time there is a sort of lag where the newest bullets and shadows wait until the oldest bullets and shadows collide... so on screen you can see many bullets and shadows just waiting their turn to be destroyed. I'd like to eliminate this lag.

here are the events:

+bullet is overlapping
+% of bullet is > 50
+bullet id = shadow id
=
-create explosion
-destroy bullet
-destroy shadow

btw:
I had just ignored this and just made the bullet just start 10 or so above the shadow, and then the %check was not needed - there was no lag, but it looked worse

[Dynasoft]

Classic problem of mmf only using the first object in each condition:

"+bullet id = shadow id" means select all bullets whose id matches the shadow's id
"+shadow id = bullet id" means select all shadows whose id matches the bullet's id
which I think might be more what you want, as the other conditions in the event choose the bullet already.

Note, don't use compare 2 general values, compare directly to the object's value.

If the event is going to be true for more than one bullet and shadow at once then you need to loop all the shadows and bullets and compare each one's id against each other, otherwise mmf will try to automatically match them up and could match them the wrong way round and then fail the id=id test.

[Pkeod]

Thanks,
I did try loops before (without luck - I don't think I checked both ) but I'll revisit them with this problem.

[Pancra]

I didn't really understand what you want to make.
But are you using the general events or the behavior of the bullet?, becouse this seems to be better handled by the behavior of the bullet...I think so.