How to flash the instance on the parent with the child together?

Hi! I'm new here, so I'm not sure how to explain my problem here, but I will try something.

I'm trying for at least 1 hour to use the flash behaviour on my enemy ship (parent) with his canon at the same time (child).

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Expected behaviour:

When the player's bullet hit the enemy ship and this one has more than 1 life point left, flashing both the enemy ship and his weapon for 2 seconds.

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Unwanted behaviour:

Instead, only the enemy ship is flashing without affecting his child.

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Any help will be welcome ^^

It's working :D

I never knew the utility of sub-event ^^

Now, this is not the issue of this post title, but since I added the enemy canon has a child to the enemy ship, the turret is not getting the player as a target, like if they can't be enabled.

Here is the project file:

drive.google.com/file/d/10Ttg0vMNoH8CKqUd5xr_XJc9zn6lzGc-/view

Do you think the turret behaviour is not compatible with the parent/child hierarchy?

the turret is not getting the player as a target, like if they can't be enabled.

It works for me, you can test it out by Putting the Turrent Range higher like 600/700 and see all the turrets target the player.

Another thing you don't need to use containers if you already use Hierarchy, the purpose of the containers is to pick them together but you already use Parent Pick Own childs.

First, my turret range was already 900 from the start, so idk how you get lower than that in my c3p file.

Second, removing the container doesn't help.

With the container:

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If I remove the container:

Idk what is wrong with the container if I already have a parent/child since the container prevents the child to not getting spawned.

First, my turret range was already 900 from the start, so idk how you get lower than that in my c3p file.

You don't have any instance of the Cannon on the layout and both when they get spawned it shows me (Range = 300) you can check it out on the Debugger

Second, removing the container doesn't help.

If I remove the container:

Remove the container and use the Hierarchy as you do now add them as a child but you still have to spawn the Childs manually and position them into their Parents then is when you add them as a child "on this order"

1-Parent on Created: Spawn childs

2-Add them as childs

3-Set their Turret range to more than 300

Everything is working now :)

Thank you a lot.

I thought by using add child, the canon would be spawned with all the parameters I put before removing it. I thought Construct 3 was working as "saving all behaviour parameters through the whole project even after if I delete it from the layout".

I'm using Construct 3 as the main game engine after a jump of years from GameMaker, so I was, and still am, confused about everything about how to use Construct 3.

I think it will be better if I check some Construct 3 tutorial 101 for new users :)

Thanks again for the help and have a nice night ^^

(Little note: Are my file names good (a_info, enemy_ship, etc)? Still using the GameMaker file names tho).

Thanks for the info :)

My brain right now: