A problem using IDs

[pikzilla]

Hiya, It's me again, with another stupid problem
Basically, I have an enemy composed of two razor blades and a ghost thing. I have been trying to use the "spread value" feature to have a ghost-thing's blades destroy along with it, but it's clearly not working: All blades are destroyed with the death of just one ghost-thing.

Here's the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/uzwnmvgz4zl/pblade test.mfa
arrow keys to move, a(hold),s, and d are the weapons.

[LB]

Mediafire hates my computer, so I cant download, but, from what I hear, this is what I think:

Spread value in the enemies, and when you create thier weaopn, set it to thier spread value. Then on enemy destroy event, make it select all weapons with the ID of the enemy and destroy them.

[uprize]

Well after looking at your example its pretty obvious why its not working.
You have the event (number 11 and 12) where you test if health < 0.
You are testing if 'active 37' (the big spinning wheel thing) has no health and you destroy active 38 instead of 37. You are also have it the other way around for the other active.
So you are basically destroying the wrong active...

This is why you should rename all your objects to something you can recognise, and change the icon to something unique for each object. Oh and use comments, lots of them. They will help you in the future and make you a better programmer.

[pikzilla]

Hah! I can't believe I missed that! But so, anyhow, I was using the "spread value" function and IDs correctly, right?

[uprize]

Yep. Spread values are useful for a number of things including that.