Enemy

[Taceo]

In a rpg game, I want the enemy to hit me if I get too close and subtract 1 from lives, When I am close to the enemy it hits me once then I have to walk away then back to get hit again. How can I make him attack every 2 seconds?

And how can I make it have a certain value of HP like 5 and my character hits 1-3 damage on a hit?

How can I do that damage?

[FlinkGigitty]

I have no fancy ways, but I can try help :P

If you have an animation when the enemy are too far away to attack, and one when he attacks, you could make an event like:

Every 2 second
+ Player is in range (your event for when the player is in range)
= Change animation sequence of Enemy to "Attack"

Also add another event that says when your Enemy is playing Attack animation, and he is on the last frame, set it back to not attack so that in 2 seconds after his attack, he will attack again.


About your damaging event, I would use the Alterable Values. On your enemy, make a new alterable value and call it HP. Then set this value to 5, or whatever HP of enemy you desire. Make a new event that says
"HP" of Enemy is Lower or Equal 0
= Destroy Enemy

And then you need an attack event. Maybe you could make a Counter object that will fix your value. Try something like:
Player pressing Fire 1
+ Player is Overlapping Enemy
= Set Counter to random(2)+1
= Substract Counter Value from "HP" of Enemy

This will result in a very basic and new beginner way You should also add some direction events aswell so that your player actually faces your enemy when he attacks etc.

[Taceo]

Every 2 second
+ Player is in range (your event for when the player is in range)
= Change animation sequence of Enemy to "Attack"

Where do I find "Player is in range"?


And how can I set counter to random?

[LB]

By "Player is in range" he means you have to use your own system for detecting if they player is in range. There is no condition for this.


To set a counter to a random value you need to use the Random() expression. It will generate a random number between 0 and 1 less than the number you give it, eg Random(5) generates a number between 0 and 4. You can get it from the Special Obejct in the expression editor.

[Taceo]

How do I do = Substract Counter Value from "HP" of Enemy?

Thanks for the help

[LB]

That was a typo, he meant "subtract" and not "substract"

[Taceo]

Well, can't find it..

[Taceo]

Found it.
Now there's another problem.
I can hold space which I use for attack and I hit all the time, so if I hold it for half a second it dies because It always subtract from that counter. How can I make the character only able to hit every 2 seconds?

[LB]

Under the condition "Repeat while space key held" add the condition "Restrict actions for 2 seconds". It can be found under the Special Object -> Limit Conditions -> Restrict Actions

[Taceo]

I have the HP value set to 10 when I hit it says 1 or 2 since tha's my damage, but he only dies after two hits anyway.