target duplicated mc's

[mjward81]

(bare with me only venturing into intermediate AS)

OK! building a spaceship game where you have to blow up enemy fighters. The enemy fighters are duplicated off a mc with the instance name of "enemy1". The following code is used


for (i=2; i<=numEnemy; i++) {
L1.enemy1.duplicateMovieClip("enemy"+i, i+10);
}

All is working ok, hitTests work great, BUT i want to have it so that each fighter must be hit by lets say 4 bullets before exploding. More realistic.

I read duplicated movieclips dont store variables from their parents, and it has me confused on how to accomplish it. I thought of storing variables on _root in relation to the max enemy fighters i have at one time, then adding a point on each time a bullet hit the enemy. Once hits 4, explode enemy, and reset variable. But i cant seem to work out how to target the duplicated moveiclip.

Can someone please help, ive been looking at it so long im even starting to confuse myself

[Lomadrian]

Here's how I would do it:


for (var i = 2; i<=numEnemy; i++) {
var newEnemy = L1.enemy1.duplicateMovieClip("enemy"+i, i+10);
newEnemy.health = 4;
newEnemy.hurt = function() {
this.health--;
if (this.health == 0) {
// Insert code to kill the enemy
}
};
}

In order for this to work, just call the enemy's hurt function whenever he's hit by a bullet.

Hope this helps.

[mjward81]

sort of... have been trying to dissect code for a little bit and have a few questions


for (var i = 2; i<=numEnemy; i++) {
var newEnemy = L1.enemy1.duplicateMovieClip("enemy"+i, i+10);
newEnemy.health = 4;
newEnemy.hurt = function() {
this.health--;
if (this.health == 0) {
// Insert code to kill the enemy
}
};
}

When you say insert code here to kill enemy, what am i actually targetting? L1["enemy"+i]? How will it know what enemy to kill.

I dont understand for statements very well, i thought i was a variable that changed, so wouldnt by targetting 'L1["enemy"+i]' destroy the last duplicated enemy?