Basic Enemy Random Movement AI

[silentvenom7]

I am making a grid based RPG style game, Where there are spawners that spawn enemies as the enemies are destroyed. The enemies are supposed to move randomly up, down, left or right. The current method I use is every time they move it sets it sets their alterable value B to random(4), and the direction it moves depends on if the number is 0, 1, 2 or 3. The main problem I am encountering is that all enemies appear to have the same same value for the alterable value B, and therefore all enemies move as one. I am not sure if this is a problem with it treating all of my enemies as having the same alterable value B, or if it is because the seed is the same for all instances and therefore it gives the same number every time (those are my 2 hypotheses, it could be something else). If you know what it is and how to fix it, or a better way to do it, any help would be appreciated. This is my first time using these forums, so if there is anything I should include please tell me so that I can. Thanks in advance!

[SolarB]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

To treat each instance of the same object as a different object you'd have to use fastloops or the ForEach extension to differentiate between them. There's plenty of info on this here but here's the rundown:

Always
--> Spread value 0 in an alt variable (which will function as an ID)

Always
--> start loop "whatever"

On Loop "whatever"
alt. variable (ID) of object = loopindex ("whatever")
--> set variable B to random(4)

[silentvenom7]

Alright, I tried to do that, but I'm getting the same result as before. I have never used loops before (I just started MMF this year, and don't have much experience). I assumed that that the first line was the condition, and the lines below were the events. What I did was:

Always
(special conditions) Start loop "Randamove" 1 times
(enemyrat) Spread Value 0 in Alterable Value Z

On Loop "Randamove"
(special conditions) Set loop "Randamove" index to Alterable Value Z("enemyrat")
(enemyrat) Set Alterable Value B to Randome(4)

If I did something wrong or used the wrong command I would be grateful if someone could point that out, also, any other suggestions are welcome as well.
Thanks!

[King_Cool]

I dont see what the problem is, and i dont think you need to use loops.

[silentvenom7]

Oh, I know whats going on! I was activating and deactivating event groups, which happened according to only the first enemy, thanks to everyone who helped, hopefully now I can get it working.