Help with enemy health

[Griffin Endurance]

Hi

I have been working on a game in GE that use's the create actor feature to create multiple actors with the same property and i am at a bit of a loss. I would like to set it so if you weapon actor collides with one of the enemys 3 times it kills it. Im trying to do this within the enemy actors propertys so i can use the event actor bit so they dont all die. If anyones got any ideas i would be very greatful

[Sgt. Sparky]

I have a very simple Idea that should work, to do this easily. at the draw actor event of the enemy have this

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if (transp > .009)DestroyActor("EventActor");

and when the weapon collides with the enemy have this for the enemy

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 transp += .003;

and that should kill the enemy after 3 hits, to make a less amount of hits to do more damage increase the transp on the hit to a higher number
to kill in one hit have this on the collision

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 transp += 0.009;

I hope this helps

[Griffin Endurance]

Thanls that works great! thanks for the help

[Sgt. Sparky]

you are welcome! I used that for one of my games

as you see the game is not that good so I did not finish it

[Game A Gogo]

yeah, but this technique can change the transparency a little bit, and its not recommended to use on already partially transparent actor.
create an variable insted and change transp for the variable you created.

[irblinx]

Isn't there a performance hit when using transparency settings?

Personally I'd use a local variable with the actor, each time your weapon hits the actor you could decrement the variable, once the variable reaches zero destroy the actor.

In the Actors "Create Actor" event

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actorLives = 3;


then in the collision event with the weapon;

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if (actorLives > 0){
   actorLives --;
}
else{
   DestroyActor("EventActor");
}


[Game A Gogo]

yes, transparency's affect game performance on slow machines a lot (I know! by experiance!)