Help me understand how to use Alterable Values.

[Emerson3]

Hey Clickteam,

I'm a year into Fusion 2.5 with an unquenchable thirst for digging and learning everything I can to master this wonderful, fun creation. Today I want to ask about Alterable Values. When I first started learning Fusion, I began with the tutorials. The tutorials are great but I find they cover the bare minimum of certain features. For example, the alt values tutorial explains how to apply health to enemies and how to destroy instances of each enemy when their alt value = 0. Now, that is awesome and I definitely use this when I'm applying health but living in the forums and reading examples and looking at MFA's, there are obviously millions of ways to use Alt Values to do a whole bunch of cool, crazy stuff! One thing for example is moving platforms vertically, horizontally, diagonally all with Alt. Values. I guess I'm asking for tips, videos, explanations, theories, examples, and more to help not only me but any newer user learn the power of Alterable Values in MMF2.5! Thanks Clickers!

[Shabadage]

There's countless ways to use them. My favorite is AI chains. Forgive the clumsy coding below to explain the idea

If Enemy attack = "True"
Set Val A to 50
Val A > 0 - Subtract 1 from Val A
Val A = 49 - Look at player
Val A = 15 - Shoot Player
Val A = 0 - Set Enemy Attack "False"

It's possible to set up very complicated AI patterns by setting a few AI chains up to work within conjunction. It's also possible to have randomized behaviors within these AI Chains; again forgive the clumsy explanation.

If Enemy attack = "True"
Set Val A to 50
Val A > 0 - Subtract 1 from Val A
Val A = 49 - Subtract Random (4) from Val A
Val A = 48 - Shoot Player, Set Val A to 45
Val A = 47- Shoot Player, Set Val A to 45
Val A = 46 - Stop Movement, Set Val A to 45
Val A = 15 - Shoot Player
Val A = 0 - Set Enemy Attack "False"

Basically in the above, the enemy has a 1/3 chance of stopping when he's Attacking instead of shooting.

I hope these clumsy explanations have helped.