How to stop Destroy from destroying all copies of the same object at once?

[knpdude]

Hello Click community,

Been a very long time since I've been here

Anyway, I am back kliking and I've run into a problem with a game I'm working on. The premise of the game is as such:

There are (so far) three lanes that are vertical. In each lane, there are 4 different ingredients being shot down. The idea is that the ingredients pile up and you have to click on them in order to make a cake. Whoever makes the most cakes win, and of course there is possibilities for other game modes.

My issue right now is that when the different ingredients pile up, I have it coded right now that it destroys the object that is there (which is put there with a Create event). The problem is when multiples of the same ingredient are there, it destroys all objects of that one! I only want the one to be destroyed.

I'm sure there is a way around this but I'm stumped. I'm hoping someone can help me out.

Thanks!

Edit:

I forgot to mention. This is a little embarrassing but I am using old school MMF 1.0. It's all I have, because I cannot afford to get MMF2 yet

[LB]

What conditions do you have for that event? If you don't have any conditions from the object being destroyed, the selection is not filtered and so all remain selected for the destroy event. If you want to do one at a time, you can use the 'Pick object at random' condition from the object it is you are destroying.

[knpdude]

I guess I should have mentioned the condition!

It's upon a user clicking within a specified zone. Picking it at random would look strange unfortunately!

I have found a workaround, albeit a bit inefficient (or maybe it's the only way?) was to have multiple clones of the same object and just specify each event specifically to each cloned object. Tedious but it'll do the job. I'll have to see how well the application runs with so many event lines.

If you know of a more efficient way I'm all ears!

[cimics]

I think this might work: Set it up so that each duplicate you create has a different value for one of its alterable values. (first duplicate, alt A=1, second duplicate alt A=2, and so on). Then you can use the alterable value in the conditions to discriminate between your duplicates.

[LB]

It's upon a user clicking within a specified zone.

Don't do that, use "User click on object". If you want it to be more responsive, use "Repeat while mouse key is pressed" + "Repeat while mouse is over object" + "Only one action on event loop"

[knpdude]

Allow me to explain the premise of the game and what I have done so far to accomplish it.

All right so basically the game is going to consist of a bunch of mini-games, and the first one I am working on is a mini game for food sorting. You race against the clock to put together 4 ingredients together in order to make as many of the food item as you possibly can. The way it works is on screen right now there are three vertical lanes 64 pixels wide, and there are 4 different food item objects being shot (by being picked at random) down each lane. Then there is a 9x9 grid of active objects to hold the food items being shot. The programming is like this:

Shooter object 1 is picked at random and launches one of four food objects (for this example it's a plate, cake bottom, cake middle and cake top).

When one of these four objects (so four collision events) collides with one of the placeholder active objects (which are hidden), destroy that object and then create a cloned version of it, but the cloned object for that specific placeholder (so I've had to make multiple copies of the same object about 10 times, and then not to mention the extra coding). So it would go something like:

Plate top (launched object) collides with Bottom Placeholder 1 (this is the bottom left placeholder on the 9x9 grid), destroy Plate top and create Plate top 2 directly on top of the location of Bottom Placeholder 1. Also set Alterable Value A of Bottom Placeholder 1 to 1 (to tell the game there is now something on that placeholder) and also set Alterable Value B to 1 so we know that it's a Plate Top on that placeholder. Set internal flag of the placeholder right above this one to 1, so that the game knows this placeholder is now filled and that we can set a condition to allow something to be placed in the placeholder spot above this one.

Then I have corresponding events for when the user clicks within a zone. I had to use zone because the object that the user clicks on changes all the time. If I could keep it to the same one I would save a lot of lines of event, and I'm sure would make the game run more efficiently. It's my first serious game so I'm sure I will learn a lot from it but this is one thing I hope to improve.

Thanks for any help.

[LB]

You can put all the objects into a qualifier and use 'User clicks on Group.Whatever"

[knpdude]

That's a great idea! I am going to do that right now.

Thanks!