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Hey I am having trouble figuring out this... I just want to destroy individual clones indead of making loads of actors and doing redundant work on my game.

I have the following which works for the first item:

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DestroyActor("glass.clonename");
clonename+1;


I thought just incrementing the clonename would work but its not for whatever reason.

+1 for the person that helps me out!

The destroy actor part(i think) is incorrect(I don't know theese clone things).
And the correct version of incrementing is:

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clonename+=1;


And it's better with a different variable:

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//First line:
int i=clonename;
//blabla
i+=1;


clonename is a string (char pointer). Increasing a pointer just increases the point at which it points. For example a string "hello" will become "ello" if you increase it by 1. Now one thing you are doing wrong is "anything within the quotes is taken as a literal string". That is to say "glass.clonename" isn't glass's clonename. It is literally the string "glass.clonename" which can't be an actor. To do what you want to do, you have to create real clonenames.

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int i;
char buffer[30];
int i = 5;
sprintf(buffer, "glass.%d", i); // this makes the string hold glass.5
DestroyActor(buffer);

i++;
sprintf(buffer, "glass.%d", i); // glass.6
DestroyActor(buffer);

OMG Skydereign, you are the best!

+1 for you! <3

And of course if you use a collision event for destroying actor you can just write:

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DestroyActor("Collide Actor");

This destroys the actor which event actor collides with.

Simple

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void DestroyClone(char *actorName, int CloneIndex)
{
    char *tmp;
    sprintf(tmp, "%s.%d", actorName, CloneIndex);
    DestroyActor(tmp);
}


Untested but should work

Example:

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DestroyClone("enemy", 5);

its similar to skys method but put into a void, his method is probably more effecient on memory though