Enemie error death and hitflash

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Godot Version

4.1.2
I am having two errors with the enemy that I do not understand, first that when the enemy reaches the player he dies but only if I shoot him instead of when I shoot him and his life runs out he dies without having to reach me and then the enemy starts again white color of the hit flash animation although I didn’t put any of that in the code
Sorry if some things are in Spanish, vida is life.


@export var movement_speed = 55

@onready var player =  get_tree().get_first_node_in_group("player")
@onready var sprite = $Sprite2D
@onready var vida = 1
@onready var flash = $hitflash



func _physics_process(_delta):
	if is_instance_valid(player):
		var direction = global_position.direction_to(player.global_position)
		velocity = direction*movement_speed
		move_and_slide()
		

		if direction.x > 0:
			sprite.flip_h = false
		
		elif direction.x < 0:
			sprite.flip_h = true
		
		

func _ready():
	$anim.play("idle")


func _on_area_2d_area_entered(_area):
	if _area.is_in_group("bala"):
		flash.play("flash")
		vida -= 9
	elif vida <= 0:
		set_physics_process(false)
		$anim.play("death")
		await get_tree().create_timer(2).timeout
		queue_free()````
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if _area.is_in_group("bala"):

If area is in group “bala” you play flash

		flash.play("flash")

and divide 9 from 1 in vida and thats is -8.

		vida -= 9

	elif vida <= 0:

Second time if area is not bala and vida is smaller you destroy node…

3

The enemy was taking a long time to die so I gave him 1 life and I don’t know why the enemy had to reach the player before dying and I don’t know why the enemy starts blank.

4 

	if _area.is_in_group("bala"): <-- olny if bala
...
	elif vida <= 0:   <-- if not bala and vila 0 or lower , `elif` is mean 'else if'

anything what is not “bala” can trigger second part if “vida” go 0 or lover

5

Can you explain to me why this is wrong? because I don’t understand very well, I mean I copied the code from another enemy that was chasing another node but I changed the node I was chasing to the player node, by the way, bala is bullet

6

if bala
else
else mean is not bala.
then mean you is everything but not your bullet

you needed use if inside if

func _on_area_2d_area_entered(_area):
	if _area.is_in_group("bala"):
		flash.play("flash")
		vida -= 1
		if vida <= 0:
			set_physics_process(false)
			$anim.play("death")
			await get_tree().create_timer(2).timeout
			queue_free()

I hope you understand :slight_smile:

8

Not sure, maybe there’s something in your animations, flash can be active with no script

9

If it was that, deactivate something and it was fixed, I managed to fix the enemy, thank you very much

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