Turret Behavior

Hey guys, so I'm adding some turrets to my game. And I get the basics of how they work. Very cool.. But something I'm trying to do I cant figure out. I want to shoot a different projectile depending on what enemy is targeted. Is there a way to do this? Basically I have it locked on to a family of enemies, but I want it to check if the enemy is a person, or a vehicle, and shoot the proper projectile. Can this be done?

Simple, make instance variable for the enemies and check them on the Turrent before shotting.

Simple, make instance variable for the enemies and check them on the Turrent before shotting.

Ok, wait. That seems easy enough. But since I'm targeting a family, how do I have it check what its targeting?

I feel like I'm missing something incredibly simple ha ha.

Ok, I figured it out. I was correct, I was missing something super simple. Thanks a ton!!

Well, now Ive run into a different issue. If both kinds of enemies are on the screen, it just fires both projectiles. Did I mess something up, or is there a way to fix this?

Yeah, Im missing something still haha. I normally can whip this stuff right out. I dont know why this is stumping me.This is what I have.

dropbox.com/s/uk5mch0zkhqjumm/Capture.PNG

That looks like a variation of what I said, it's not working?

You shouldn't need the "Turret has target" conditions, as it's in an event triggered by "on shoot", so there is only one turret picked. But that shouldn't keep it from working.

Hmm, I just converted the turret demo to something similar, and the Family isn't picking right. I set it to pick the enemies directly and it worked. I don't use families often, maybe I did something wrong.

Here I went ahead and saved my test capx:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwvmqpyull4qs72/TurretMultiBulletTest.capx

It's the demo for turrets that come with Construct, converted to use families, and multicolored bullets.

But as you can see in Events 16 and 17, the family (disabled) version doesn't work.

Thanks a ton for the help. I used a slightly modified version of that to get it working. You're a life saver haha.

Hey the new r135 update just fixed this family picking thing, it was a bug.