How to delete single instance of an object

[liquiddil]

This might be in the wrong spot and if so i am sorry.

I am having an issue where i have an enemy object and a detector object, i take these two objects and copy/paste them to make several instances of the same enemy/detector.

The issue is when the collision happens, the correct enemy object is destroyed but instead of destroying the detector attached to the enemy, it destroys them all. This causes the remaining enemy objects to become frozen as they have no detector to help them move about that game area.

The destroy command is on one single line, which destroys both the enemy and detector. Any help is greatly appreciated.

-Liquid

[Pineapple]

Spread values might help with this.
Spread or assign a value to both the enemy and detector, and when the enemy is destroyed, destroy the detector too.

It would be something like:
Bullet hits enemy: set enemy's flag 1 on
Enemy's flag 1 is on & detector's Alterable value A = enemy's Alterable value A: destroy detector
Enemy's flag 1 is on: destroy enemy

Dealing with multiple instances can be a bit tricky, and will probably take some trial and error to get this kind of thing working.

[liquiddil]

Thank you for the response. I could be wrong, but what you wrote doesn't make sense to me.

you wrote:

It would be something like:
Bullet hits enemy: set enemy's flag 1 on so the enemy flag is now 1
Enemy's flag 1 is on & detector's Alterable value A = enemy's Alterable value A: destroy detector at this point how would either Alterable value have an actual value, is this something set earlier or is this where the spread comes into play?
Enemy's flag 1 is on: destroy enemy

[Alonso]

This is completely unintuitive, but it works wonders:

If you're using always -> position detector x,y to enemy x,y to locate the detectors on the appropriate enemy, then just add this to that event:

* Always -> set value X of detector to value X of enemy.

When you want to destroy the enemy, set its value X to 1. This will make MMF set only its corresponding detector's value X to 1. Then:

*Value X of detector = 1 -> destroy detector
*Value X of enemy = 1 -> destroy enemy

MMF's object selection is very odd but, for cases like this, it's very handy.

[liquiddil]

Thanks for the suggestion but i get the same results with both of these examples, except now all the enemies destroy instead of just the one. We seem to be going backwards on this. Any other suggestions?

[Alonso]

You probably just didn't do it right. Here's an example, it's surprisingly simple.

[liquiddil]

Alonso, you are the best your example was very helpful and i got it working, thank you!