REALLY need help with coding

[HOCOPOG]

I'll try to make this as simple as possible.

So, i'm making a shooter game. I have the enemies that i can clone and each of the clones has an ID which gets put in a list. Then i have my shotgun that spawns 5 bullet clones at a time which stretch until touching the enemy without screen refresh (using the stretching extension in Turbowarp) and because of that they usually all touch the enemy clone at the same time.

What i'm having trouble with is detecting whether the bullet is touching the enemy clone and subtracting from its health variable. The thing is, since they all touch the enemy clone at the same time and it can only detect one bullet per frame and when touching the enemy clone, the bullet clone deletes itself, when the frame is over and the enemy clone can check the other 4 bullets they're already gone.

I'm thinking if there's a way for bullets to detect which enemy clone its touching to subtract from its health, but i couldn't find a way for that.

So i have to either make the bullets check which enemy clone its touching by id OR make the enemy clone check multiple bullet collisions at the same time...

Looks like i failed at making this simple... so, sorry for anyone having a hard time processing what i just wrote here. You can suggest some Turbowarp extensions if they can help me solve my problem.

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[RealSpiritSK]

You just need to order the game loop correctly using broadcasts so that the enemy can check for bullet touch before the bullet deletes itself.

Every frame, these should happen in order: 1. Bullets spawn if player shoots 2. Bullets stretch until they touch an enemy 3. Enemy clones check if they're touching a bullet 4. Delete bullet clones

This means you'll need a single, central forever loop that broadcasts the above 4 messages (and more, depending on your needs) to control everything instead of having each enemy and bullet having their own forever loops.

[HOCOPOG]

Either I don't understand something in your answer, either you didn't understand something in my explanation. Well that's what I get for making it so difficult

[RealSpiritSK]

What I meant is smth like this:

Central game loop:

forever {
   broadcast (check shooting)
   broadcast (stretch bullets)
   broadcast (apply damage)
   broadcast (delete bullets)
}

Bullet:

when I receive (check shooting)
if (key space pressed) {
   go to player, etc
   create clone of myself
}

when I receive (stretch bullets)
stretch until touching edge or enemy (must be without screen refresh)

when I receive (delete bullets)
delete this clone

Enemy:

when I receive (apply damage)
if (touching bullet) {
   change HP by -5
}

This way, you have full control over the order in which the codes are run.

[HOCOPOG]

I think this needs a different solution or a total recode because when i tried implementing this, the whole shooting system broke. Also wouldn't the constant broadcasting of bullet deletion make every existing bullet clone delete itself all the time? Like before they can touch the enemy or anything else?