Trouble with dropped collectables

[Atherton]

Hi
I've been having trouble figuring out the correct approach for objects that once destroyed will leave behind a collectable item such as a coin and I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me out.

I'm trying to create treasure chests that need to be destroyed for the player to collect their contents: I've given the chests an alterable value that stores the number of hits it has recieved and once the Hit value is greater or equal to 3 the chest is destroyed and a coin is created at it's position.

However the problem is that many coins, not just one are created at the chests position and adding a "only one action when event loops"condition results in an entirely different problem where if two chests are lined up next to each other and you hit the first chest once then place yourself so you can hit both at the same time the second chest and any other remaining chests won't be destroyed no matter how many times you hit them.

I've attached the MMF file so anyone can see what I mean it currently has the "only one action when event loops" applied

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Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

[Horn]

I ran it and it works fine. Another trick you can try is to have the coins already created behind the chest.

[Atherton]

Well my brother was able to help out with my problem and provide a solution, but I'm not all that happy with having to create a different chest for each different item so I'm thinking of giving hiding the collectables a try but I'd like them to dissappear after a while once they been revealled and so far I can't figure out how do it.

[Greg]

You can also try to remove the "Only one action when event loops" and do something like that:

-Hits of Chest >= 3 - Create coin at (0,0) from Chest
                      Set hits of Chest to 0
                      Destroy Chest

It works fine by me.