did I find a bug in "spread value"?!?

[BrashMonkey]

Hi everyone,

I'm using MMF2 DEV R249 and am making a game for j2mew export.


I'm using a simple spread value command (I've used a milion times before) to associate specific instanmces of PMO's with specific instances of actives.

Please take a look at this small .MFA.

is this a bug?

Why are TWO of the enemy actives keeping their value at ZERO despite the spread value command?

I'm assuming I'm doing something stupid, but can't for the life of me see what.

thanks,

[netninja]

You need to put Spread Value actions on their own line, so instead of having one Start of frame line, have 3:

Start of frame > Spread value 0 in enemy
Start of frame > Spread value 0 in PMO
Start of frame > Start Loop "enemy pmo"

This is just due to the way Spread Value works, I believe it does the spreading as the last action in the stack.

[BrashMonkey]

I'll give that a shot and report back... thanks. Odd I never ran into this before, I've used spread value a lot. I guess I always accidentally did it the "right way"before.

[netninja]

I tested it in your example and it fixes the problem. Let us know if it's still not working.

[BrashMonkey]

yup. it fixed the problem all right. thanks much

[LB]

You can have Spread values on a line with other actions, just not fastloops. Fastloops mess them up.

[Dynasoft]

Or any kind of action which triggers conditions, like the function loop extension, etc.