How can I make an actor stop & shoot, and increase the health bar?

bigticket21

I'm trying to work on a project where there are different enemies who run around and shoot at you. So the dilemma I'm having is that I can't make them stop and shoot at you. How can you do that?

So far I've tried the following:
I created 3 integers in the actor
Rule - Move, angle 0 (that means it moves right?)
Then when Position X = 50, make int1=random(1,3), make int2=random(150,200), make int3=random(10,40)
Then, if int1 is 1 AND Position X=int2, start moving at angle 180 (left?)
Then again when Position X=int3, restore moving to right.

It doesn't work though. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. So far what I've done has worked.

Also, I have absolutely no idea how to make them stop at one point (let's say around Position X = 400) and start shooting at the player.
Another thing I'm trying to make is a special enemy which follows the player and when it's near him, it's starts shooting.
And one last thing, how can I make a health bar not only decrease over time, but increase at certain points?

reddotinc

Why don't you use the Move To behaviour instead? then you can make it move to x = 50.

then rule when X = 50

do what you want.

Not sure what you're trying to do with the ints?

for health bar check this: http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_health_bar

bigticket21

I want the enemy to reach a random location and then start moving in the other direction. When it reaches another random location start moving again in the old direction. Then when it reaches a location at say X = 400, start shooting.

Thanks for the tip

Still don't know how to make them start shooting though.