how to slectively destroy a missile?

[mobichan]

I'm trying to make a game where an enemy fires a bunch of missiles and the player clicks on their impact points to destroy them. I have the enemy creating a missile and target and assigning them the same ID. The problem is when I go to destroy the missile.

When the player clicks on the screen, they create a circular object at the mouse cursor's position. I want it so that if the missile's target is overlapping the circle, ONLY the missile associated with that target is destroyed. Currently, it seems to be destroying all the missiles. Can someone shed some light on the conditions I need to use to get this working?

Thanks in advance,

Mobichan

[xyzzy]

maybe something like:

"Missile_target" is overlapping "Mouse_circle"
+ ID of "Missile" = ID("Missile_target")
--> Missile_target - Destroy
--> Missile - Destroy

[mobichan]

I often get confused by the order I should be checking overlap objects. I actually tried something like this initially, but I was checking if the circle was overlapping the target. Is there a simple way to rememeber which one comes first? And does the order affect the object selection process in MMF?

[xyzzy]

I often get confused by the order I should be checking overlap objects. I actually tried something like this initially, but I was checking if the circle was overlapping the target. Is there a simple way to rememeber which one comes first? And does the order affect the object selection process in MMF?

yeah the order does make a difference

MMF looks at each instance of the object on the left, but doesn't do the same for the object on the right

when you have a "many-to-one" case like this, you want the "many" objects on the left, and the "one" object on the right

[mobichan]

Thanks for the info. I actually have 3 objects I am needing to destroy when the overlap condition occurs, so I found another way to make this work. I ended up setting a global variable to the ID each component object has and then checking each object against that global variable.

Thanks again,

Mobichan