How do I control spawn variable/flexible

Hi there,

these are my first steps with construct.

I've set up a tiny space shooter and wanted to know, how to control the spawning and collisions of my enemies in a flexible way.

The capx file can be downloaded here:

dropbox.com/s/a6oossn17ewlvit/spacey.capx?dl=0

(move with arrows, shoot with "A")

In there you see the problems i have:

• For each enemy type (Enemy/Enemy2 ...) i'd have to repeatedly set the spawn and colllisions. That's impossible because there will be a ton of enemy types ...
• I'd like to implement another spawn system. Now, every time a "wave" is killed, another wave is generated immediately. I'd like to have some wait time between the spawn.
• The "wave handling" (see at the bottom of the capx file) is aweful! This has also to be completely flexible.
• Additionally there's a problem with the health bar. Because "Enemy" has the HealthBar as a container, i can't select "HealthBar" as in the container of "Enemy2". So i have to clone the Health bar and this doubles the code needed for the health bar too.

At the moment i only have the free version, so families aren't possible for me to use.

Best regards and thanks for every info

E.g. the "Spawn Enemies" and "Spawn Enemies2" sections should be only one. Something like:

• Every tick
• Check if the current wave is completed
• Depending on the CurrentWave" variable spawn either Enemy, Enemy2, Enemy3 aso
• Additionally it would be great, if at this place one could choose a random number and depending on this number, an Enemy type is selected.

So i could alter randomly e.g. in wave 2:

If random == 2 choose randomly from Enemy2, Enemy3, EnemyX aso.

I found the rex_nickname plugin for flexible creation of instances.

But: If i create an instance by nickname, which could be a variable string, i dont know how to access it afterwards.

e.g:

• i have a string "Enemy" which is a variable and could also be "Enemy2"
• the string is stored in "PickedEnemyObjectName"
• i create an instance via the Nickname plugin via: "Create PickedEnemyObject at (0,0) on Layer 0
• the whole thing happens in a for loop
• inside the for loop and after the creation i want to set x and y positions for the variable object. but i can't add an action because i dont' t know wich object i created. normally i would do: add action->Enemy->set x but "Enemy" is the variable instance, created via Nickname, which could also be "Enemy2"

headache^^

Maybe this could be done via functions?