I'm finding that if I have a condition that results in more than one of the same type of object being created; the events that follow and apply to those objects are only applied to one of them and not to all the ones created.
Is this not a bit counter-intuitive?
How do I make it so that if 10 enemies are created at once all their value-A's (health) are set to 5 for example?
do it in a fastoop
I'm still a bit unclear on that. Can someone point me in the right direction to get me started?
There is a fastloop tutorial in the tutorials section (to the right of this website). It is a good place to start if you want to learn about fastloop use.
Right, I understand how to set one up and what they do - I just don't see how to tie that knowledge into this problem.
IE.: when to start and stop the fastloop - what events to tie those into.
Use the Spread Value function on the actives in a Start of Frame event. Assign it to one of the alterable values. Then just check for the loop being called and the alterable value of the active being equal to the spread value.
I'm still trying to get this to all work myself (been causing some AI issues) but definitely read the tutorials in the sidebar. They're for MMF 1.5 but the same functions are in the newest version.
Wait if you're making objects and setting values all in one action, why can't you go...
* Condition
---Create object
---Set health to 5
---Create object
---Set health to 5
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Hi Ricky - my problem stems from when you don't know how many objects you're going to be creating.
For instance if you have a varying number of spacecraft launching missiles or launching other ships, that that each have to have values set (e.g. for health-points)...
Say if you have "every 1 second: create a missile (or launch a fighter)". If two motherships launch at once then only one of them actually has its fighters created. The other's simply die / explode.
I'm sure it wasn't like this in previous versions of MMF. It just boggles the mind why they made it this way.
Oh I see...
Sorry then x)
Fastloops 'tis... unless you want to sacrifice them all launching at once and pick one at random
No, no don't apologise.
I'll have a play on with spreading values. Not too sure what that does to be frank but I'm sure I'll find out.
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