parent acting on child

[Nykos]

Hi you all, I have a little question. I have an actor caled enemy that creates another actor like this:
Create actor / script:

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CreateActor("rabbit", "rabbit2_attack_right", "Creator Actor", "(none)", 0, 0, false);

Then I set second actor's creator as his parent.
The thing is, I'd like to change second actor's animation from first one's variables.
something like this:

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switch(state)
{
    case 0:
    angle= direction(x, y, player.x, player.y);
    directional_velocity=2;
    switch(dir)
    {
        case 0:
        ChangeAnimation("rabbit", "rabbit2_walk_left", NO_CHANGE);
        break;
        case 1:
        ChangeAnimation("rabbit", "rabbit2_walk_right", NO_CHANGE);
        break;
    }
}
   

The script works perfectly But, Enemy actors are clones so I replaced the code this way:

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ChangeAnimation("child", "rabbit2_walk_left", NO_CHANGE);


But now it does not work anymore. Does someone know what to do to have one enemy actor act on his own second actor?

Thanks in advance

[skydereign]

Ok, parent actors do not know about their child counterparts. There are ways of linking them together with a variable, or if there is always a 1 to 1 correspondence (like you have because of the CreateActor in the create event) then you can use the variable/cloneindex to create the child actor's clonename. That, or add the code into the child actor's events. That way you can access the parent's variable using parent.variable.

[Nykos]

Thanks for the answer Sky, in fact I just did what you said about putting the code in the child's "draw actor" event and it works almost perfectly. But there is still one problem, If I have two enemy actors (or more than two...), the second actors are all created with the latest enemy coordinates.

The green circled GE icons are the enemy actors, and the rabbits are the second actors which are meant to have the same coordinates as their creators. Do i have to make this "Variable/ cloneindex" you talked about previously to set it right?? Or am I just doing something wrong?

[skydereign]

Well, you said you want the rabbit to be parented to the actor that created it. But in your CreateActor function call, you are setting the parent to the enemies creator. That's most likely what is throwing off your xy coordinates. So switch "Creator Actor" to "Event Actor".

[Nykos]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, it worked. I'm always surprised to see that what could take me half a day to solve, is just one little error just in front of me from the beginning...Thanks again man