Enemies thats return from the dead

[Atherton]

Having enemies that just die after being hit can result in a rather empty looking stage when doing any amount of backtracking, how would I go about making defeated enemies return after a while so that the player is always kept on their toes.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks

[Christian_Wheel]

Rather than placing enemies in the Frame Editor, you could create them programatically in the Event Editor when the player reaches certain bounds. You'll also want to add a condition to make sure that the enemy isn't already in existence (in case the player didn't kill them the first time around).

[Chaos]

Aye, what Christian said. You could also use enemy 'spawn points' with unique alterable values they assign to their enemy to ensure there is only one at a time in that spot. Or, you could have it set up so that it spawns lots of enemies that head to the player when close enough like the zombies in castlevania SotN in the intro area.

[Atherton]

The problem is that I'd atleast like to be able to control their initial placement in the editor so I can have some power over the way the level unfolds.

How about if when an enemy is destroyed I created a Spawn point on it's location that counts down to zero after which the spawn point is destroyed and a new enemy is created on the spot or does that sound like a strange way of doing things?

[LB]

If you want a more classic style, you can set spawn points in the frame editor instead of creating them where the enemy is destroyed. This helps avoid some issues with wandering enemies, and allows you to not have to save the spawn point positions.