Mortal Kombat

[supa-tails]

I am making a Mortal Kombat game (a fighting game) and how would I get the person you are going against to randomly attack, move, or jump
Also, for my racing game, how can I make it to where you have a menu and all of the actors are still, but the menu moves, THEN when you press start the cars move(like real traffic)
And I guess that goes the same for the menu for Mortal Kombat too.

[Kalladdolf]

Make a variable (attackmode).
Open the script editor for the enemys draw actor (or timer finish) event . Write:
attackmode = rand(3) // ín this case there are 3 attack modes which the enemy can use...
if(attackmode == 1)
{
blabla
}
if(attackmode == 2)
{
blabla
}
if(attackmode == 3)
{
blabla
}

(blabla is the action which you want him to execute)

Now, cars: Make them move with the draw actor event.
Also add this event : Create actor -> Event disable -> draw actor
Then to the menu button: Mouse button down -> event enable -> cars -> draw actor

If this doesn't work the way u want, check out the game demo forum, they got a good demo there about pausing certain actors.
There are more possible ways, but I know these as the easiest ones

[Bee-Ant]

Or you can use random timers on create actor
Timer 1 : to punch
Timer 2 : to kick
Timer 3 : to move left
Timer 4 : to move right
Timer 5 : to jump
etc...

[supa-tails]

Thanks, also, how would I make it to where you only get hurt by him when he is going through a certain animation, but you dont get hurt when he is just standing there?

[Kalladdolf]

make attackmodes for the enemy, and make him play these certain animations while he is using the specific attackmode.

for your player goes: collision -> enemy -> if (en_attackmode == 1)
{//get hurt;}

[Bee-Ant]

Make variables :
1. EnemyAttack (int, global)
2. PlayerBlock (int, actor)
3. PlayerHealth (int, actor)

PLAYER Actor :
On Collision Event with Enemy :

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if(EnemyAttack==1)
{
    if(PlayerBlock==0)
    {
        ChangeAnimation("EventActor", "Hit", FORWARD);
        PlayerHealth--;
    }
}

ENEMY Actor :
On Timer Event "Punch", "Kick", etc :

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EnemyAttack=1;
ChangeAnimation("EventActor", "EnemyPunchLeft", FORWARD); //After Punch timer

On AnimationFinish Event of EnemyPunchLeft :

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ChangeAnimation("EventActor", "EnemyStopLeft", FORWARD);
EnemyAttack=0;

Etc...
Etc...

[supa-tails]

THANKS!!! but I haven't treid it yet BECAUSE... I forgot... *supa tails tries it now*