Lose 1 Health per Enemy = (For Each?)

Hey All,

As I'm testing my current early state of my game I found out a bug and I'm not sure how to fix it.

I attached a GIF so you can visualize how it looks, maybe it will help.

Current state is:

When enemy collide with the player, he loses 1 HP which is HALF a heart. 6 HP = 3 Hearts, so far so good right?

On every HIT, the Player changes to Invincible for few seconds (while flashing).

But I noticed this bug when I JUMP on 2 enemies at once the Player loses 2 HP instead of 1 (Full Heart).

Since I'm still new to Construct 3 and learning programing with it as I go, I didn't use "FOR EACH" but I'm guessing it's something I should use to solve it? or maybe I'm wrong and it's something else.

Can you please suggest me a solution so I can test?

Thanks ahead!

i.imgur.com/9lXkVSP.gif [/img]

I believe you need to use the "Trigger Once While True" condition. That way, instead of both enemies hitting you, only one will. Is that what you are looking for?

Thanks for the reply, My current code have this (image attached) trigger at once but it didn't solve the issue what made me to post this thread.

I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong with the order maybe?

I did play around with the order but... it didn't solve the issue.

I thought it's because of the enemies are same instance or something but I just spawn 3 of them with the code instead of duplicate them manually on the stage.

i.imgur.com/pnbHT3m.png [/img]

Try using a variable to detect when you are no longer touching the enemy and condition to check against it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/egaxp71n1snhbu6/enemyFirstCollison.c3p?dl=0

Thanks — that's an interesting solution! I'll probably use it if there is no other solution.

The thing is that I already have so many variables and I will add more and more both variables and enemies.

So I wonder if there are other ways to do this without extra variables?

I know it sounds weird, maybe it's a Create Object v.s. Spawn Object issue? I'm not sure.

Any other solutions will be very interesting to see as I'm still learning.

I found out that it's a bit more complex than what I imagine.

When I attack 1 enemy (2 hits = destroy for quick test) it dies, the rest keep moving around = GOOD!

But... when I collide with 1 enemy, all enemies stops, change direction, keep walking (calls a simple function I made).

So I have 2 issues now, and it's good to solve them before I'll add more enemies to the game to understand how to deal with it later, that's where I need your help.

1# = As I posted originally, when the Player jumps to test collision with 2 enemies instead of hit once, both will damage at once = BAD (I need only one enemey to hit). — gave a solution but I'm not sure if it's related to the 2nd Issue so I didn't use it yet.

2# = I just described above (collision with 1 enemy affect ALL enemies).

Are these 2 issues related and can be solved in the same condition, I'm a bit confused.

I did try to use "FOR EACH" which I probably use totally wrong but it sounds like it could help...

Dear dop2000 I bet you can solve this easily, you already helped me and many others so much!

Can you please have a look on this post and share your advice / solution, example or visual image of how it's done will be very helpful.

My wrong use of "FOR EACH" I just tried my luck since I don't know how to use it after reading about it.

i.imgur.com/FueiQx3.png [/img]

Example of the 2 issues mentioned above:

i.imgur.com/9lXkVSP.gif [/img]

Thanks ahead to anyone who can help! :)

Event

object Player on collision with Enemy

sub event

for each enemy

action do stuff: subtract player health and or set enemy parameters

The subevent will loop through the enemies involved with the collision

Thanks for the quick reply!

I lost you now, but I REMOVED the function since you said this is the issue, I got rid of it for testing.

And both issues are still there, even when there are no functions at all.

So... do I make it on the wrong order?

i.imgur.com/i7U2tch.png [/img]

here is an example in its most basic form

test

here is an example in its most basic form

test

Thank you for the example file!

I don't see why it's not working on my code, maybe because there are more things like animations and stuff I even tried to look if I made any extra conditions that may clash, but nothing else.

Even when I placed the enemies manually on the stage it's affecting all of them instead of each instance separately, but on my code I use System Create which in this test creates 3 enemies called "GooE". maybe that's the problem?

But when I attack them, it works great... it won't reduce damage to all, but to each instance (and I didn't code anything special just reduced the damage) that's why I'm so confused now. :(

In my game I must create / spawn the enemies randomly and not just putting them manually on the stage.

So I'm guessing that's why "FOR EACH" isn't working, and it's not related to the function I did but it's only a guess... I'm still scratching my head while trying to think on a solution for this.

Here are visuals of how it works on my current tests:

When Player Attacks it works perfect: per instance. but when Player collide with the Enemy ALL Instances rracts instead of just the specific enemy:

i.imgur.com/mTF1XDE.gif [/img]

Also,it cause the 2nd issue which damage twice when collide with 2 enemies instead of just 1:

i.imgur.com/9lXkVSP.gif [/img]

If anyone have other ideas or suggestions, please share... I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, please have a look above on my other code tests followed to other suggestions.

Thanks ahead!

The function looses its reference to which instance was involved and therefore executes the action on all gooe objects.

The second gif you posted, the point where you hit the second gooe, you actually hit 2. (I see 2 gooes behind one another)

Also, in your events ... you have a timer on the player, then perform actions when the timer runs out on the gooes. those will effect all gooes as there is no reference to an individual one.

UPDATE:

So after I removed the Function, I re-code the stop/freeze of the enemy, I didn't use "FOR EACH" and it works...

So one issue solved, now every individual enemy collide with the player stops.

i.imgur.com/jhsdncW.png [/img]

But the other issue is still there: if the Player jumps on 2 enemies (normal collision) or 5 enemies, I will lose 2 HP or 5 HP!

What I want: Lose only 1 HP if the player collide with any of this kind of enemy type "GooE" even if they are grouped together.

So there is one solution mentioned with variables, but I wonder about different approach?

can this be solved with the magic of "FOR EACH" ??