vanishing counters

[life2searching]

hi all

i cannot understand why counters (the blue horizontal bars which appear above the yellow actives specifically) sometimes vanish in this simple game i have made

do you have any ideas?

i have uploaded the mfa here

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=215305&#Post215 305

best regards
l2s

[Dynasoft]

I can't look at the mfa right now, but the common mistake is having "display as background" set in the properties of the counter.

[life2searching]

already checked that but thank you !

[Tisnart]

Are you sure you uploaded the correct file?
I don't see any blue horizontal bars

[life2searching]

run the project and hit space a bunch of times, this will spawn red blocks

when the red blocks collide they spawn yellow blocks (and the yellow blocks have blue health bars)

thanks for looking

[Tisnart]

Ok I'm still not seeing it, the file you uploaded has 3 frames and the last 2 only have an active and no events. The first frame has some actives but no events for pressing the spacebar?

[life2searching]

sorry i didn't double check the first time gerald you were 100% correct

i have updated the file :

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=215305&#Post215 305

[life2searching]

so can anyone please help me :S

[Tiles]

This is an MMF instancing problem. The counters are still there, but jumps to other actives. You would need to run a fastloop to nail the counters to the specific actives.

That`s a bit impossible though because counters have no alterable values to spread. So i would suggest to use Active System Boxes instead counters. They can be set up to act like your bar here.

The way to go then is as follow:

Spread Value 0 in Alterable Value in ASB
Spread Value 0 in Alterable Value in Active

Always start loop "nail" nubmer of object times

On Loop "nail"
+Alt Val A of ASB is equal Loopindex "nail"
+Alt Val A of Active is equal Loopindex "nail"
-> set position of ASB to position of Active ...