Is there a way I can add body parts as a property or child?

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• antix Member

  March 2016 Accepted Answer

  It all depends on how many monsters you are going to be managing. You might have self.monster1, self.monster2, and self.monster 3 and this will be fine but if you wanted to have MANY monsters it would be a nightmare to manage. The following code is a simple way to manage game objects. It might not be the best way but it works

  local monsters = {}   local function newMonster(name, body, eye) local monster = { name = name, body = body, eye = eye, blinking = false, blinkTimer = 5000, } return monster end   local function UpdateMonsters() for i = #monsters, 1, -1 do local monster = monsters[i] -- GET NEXT MONSTER if monster.blinking then-- PROCESS BLINKING local t = monster.blinkTimer - 1 if t == 0 then -- DO BLINKING STUFF HERE t = 5000 end monster.blinkTimer = t end   -- PROCESS MORE MONSTER STUFF IN HERE   end end   newMonster("inky", 1, 1) -- CREATE 4 MONSTERS newMonster("blinky", 1, 1) newMonster("pinky", 1, 1) newMonster("clyde", 1, 1)   local function onEnterFrame(event) updateMonsters() -- UPDATE MONSTERS end   stage:addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame)

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• Ninjadoodle Member

  March 2016

  Hi @ antix
  
  Thank you for the reply, this really helps. I've managed to consolidate my code a lot!
  
  The scope of my "level" doesn't get much bugger than 10 monsters with random blinks and a few event listeners

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• antix Member

  March 2016

  @Ninjadoodle cool.
  

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