life counters for instanced enemies

[jchristiansen]

I am looking for a way to set up life counters for multiple instanced enemies so that each enemy has a vertical bar showing its individual remaining life.

I create an enemy and duplicate it. I then create a counter object, duplicate it and specify:

Always set position at (0,0) relative to enemy

Each instanced counter object sticks nicely to each instanced enemy--very cool, but when the player shoots and damages one enemy, both life counters show damage even though only one enemy actually lost life. I guess the deeper question here is, how do I get an alterable value from a specific instance of an object? Thank you!

[nivram]

Qualifiers would work I think. It would then only deduct the enemy that is hit.

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[jchristiansen]

Thanks nivram,

Could you elaborate please? Adding a qualifier to one of the enemies or counters will add it to all of them, since they are instanced duplicates, right? Each enemy has an alterable value for its life points that is discreetly modified when it takes damage, that is working fine. I just don't know how to get that unique value to each counter.

[nivram]

Are you are using duplicate counters? Can you use seperate counters for the enemies, or are there lots of enemies?

Can you upload your mfa into the archives so we can look at it?
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[jchristiansen]

Sorry but my .mfa seems to be too big to upload... I posted a screen grab of my event list, hopefully that gives an idea of what is going on. Thanks for the help!