Enemies are sharing health?

[sgtpieman]

I'm using alterable values to contain the hp of my enemies. When they collide with a bullet object, that value is subtracted by ten. When the value reaches zero, the enemy should destroy itself.

I have used a counter bar to see exactly what is happening. As per expected, each enemy has their own life bar that works independently of one another. If I shoot enemy A then enemy B is not affected. However, once enemy A's health value hits zero, for some reason it is enemy B that destroys, and enemy A's health is reset to full.

What could be happening to cause this?

[nivram]

Can you post a mfa example so we can be of more help.

Thanks,
Marv

[N64Mario]

Maybe switch Enemy A's health Bar with Enemy B's health bar instead?

[sgtpieman]

I had to remove a lot of the little addons I had as well as most of the stuff that's for the game and unrelated to this before uploading the mfa, and for some reason that broke the player movement even though none of that used the addons, but for the sake of testing this enemy thing I just threw the player on 8 direction. The folder you're wanting to look at is labeled "Baddies", in it are "FoxFeral" and "Wolfman". Sorry about the messy workplace, I haven't exactly tidied it up yet. The code however is in nice groups. I probably should have commented it though.

[SolarB]

I haven't looked at your code yet but the first thing to try would be:

Enemy health = 0
+Pick one enemy at random
--> destroy enemy

This should solve the scoping issue, otherwise you may have to run a ForEach loop.

[sgtpieman]

Man, I'm still having this problem. Sorry to say SolarB, but neither method worked.

[klikhappy]

http://mfa.aquadasoft.com/upload/1398768734-feral.mfa

I'm not sure if this will help.

[edit]

I took another quick look at your .mfa. I think the problem may be that you have the HP and collisions set in the feral fox, but the feral fox active object is always being positioned over a collision object ("Fox Collision"). It may be that when a fox is destroyed, MMF automatically redistributes the remaining foxes over the collision objects. You may want to either eliminate the collision objects, or rewrite the lines so that the HP and bullet collisions happen with the collision object.

I dunno if that made sense.

[edit 2]

I made the fox collision object visible and the feral foxes invisible. I can see that when a fox is destroyed, that all of the fox collision objects remain. I am nearly certain this is the problem.

[sgtpieman]

Alright, thanks. Got it working now.