Conditional destroying

[Atomic89]

Hello everyone

I've been working with MFD2 for some time and I decided to make a classic space shooting game with enemies spawning as active objects around the player and approaching from different angles.

I want to make a behavior which will cause player's spaceship to be destroyed if he gets into a collision with another spaceship (lets just call it shipA) while shipA is playing walking animation. I have created an animation for appearing ships which can give some time for player to react to changing environment.

Here is the problem : player's ship doesn't get destroyed in case of a collision with shipA if there is another shipA on the screen playing the "appear" animation.

The command i was using is :
conditions:
*Collision between ship and shipA
*shipA animation Appearing is over
event:
*ship Destroy

Is there a way to fix this or do I need a new active object for EVERY ship that is about to spawn and new command for each of them?

[EE]

You could try:
--(negate)shipA animation appearing is playing
+ship overlaps shipA:

-Destroy ship

//EE

[Pineapple]

Why bother with checking which animation isn't playing, when you're testing for the walking animation? My guess is that testing for the appearing animation is what's negating the ship destroy event.

Try:
Player collides with enemy ship
+Enemy ship is playing Walking animation

:destroy player's ship
----
Or something like:

Ship appear animation is over: set flag 1 on

player collides with enemy
+enemy ship flag 1 is on

:destroy ship

[Atomic89]

Both of the suggestions don't work. Sometimes there are 30 or more ships on the screen and they keep spawning, so there is almost always a ship playing "appearing" animation, which makes the command impossible. The thing with flag won't work for the same reason.

I've heard that MF can make these problems with cloned objects, but I thought I could avoid the problem with using 2 conditions. Looks like I was wrong.

[EE]

Works perfectly for me.

--(negate)shipA animation appearing is playing
+ship overlaps shipA:

-Destroy ship

Have you tried exactly this?

//EE

[Atomic89]

Awww now i get it!

I used "finished playing" instead of negating the "playing".

This fixed my problem! Thanks ALOT