Need help on a game im creating!

[im2famous4u]

I am designing a breakout type game. I am designing an object that passes through the bricks as it destroys them. I also have events set up so that when a red brick is destroyed, a yellow brick is created in its place. When I use my object, instead of destroying the red brick and passing over the yellow brick that it creates, it creates the yellow brick, but my object immediately destroys that as well. How do I create it so that it destroys the red brick, but passes over the yellow brick until it comes back to the brick again? I hope that made at least a little sense, I can try to explain it better if I need to.

[izac]

Hi im2famous4u.

I think the solution would be, if the object collisions with the yellow brick, then set the yellow bricks flag0 on. If it collisions with it while flag0 is on, then it destroys the yellow brick.

Hope that helped,

Izac

[Renatos]

Maybe every 1 second for example, adds 1 to a variable of the yellow brick. Then make a condition that IF your ball colides with Yellow brick, and variable A is greater than 1, then destroy. That way it will ignore it for that moment you want it to. Hope it makes sense.

Obviously, change these values to fit your need

[im2famous4u]

Okay, I tried both of those, and the flag technique still presented the same problem. The second technique, however, worked great! Thanks!

[izac]

Hmm strange it works for me :S

[Renatos]

That's because you are setting the flag on at the same time the ball is colliding with the yellow brick. So it's doing what it should do. Having it be set a second or miliseconds from collision avoids that.