TGF coding HELP! - Character entrances

Okay, to those of you using TGF (classic) -- I NEED HELP!!!

Here's the scenario: last night, I was beginning work on the events engine for one of my newest game projects (platformer/adventure) and was dealing with the first part of the process -- when one of my select characters makes his or her entrance into a section of the overall stage. My layout was this:

(1) Level Editor - Placed an entrance point (active object) off screen.
(2) Event Editor - The "code" I put is this:

Now here's the problem, I have noticed that when testing my playable characters after they enter, I see that during the entrance event, the TGF environment created them TWICE! I know for a fact that something might be wrong on that front, but I need to know if I am missing a step or do I need to modify something in the Level Editor/Event Editor to get it to where the TGF application created just one character instead of two or three.

All right; thanks.

Try using "Only one action when event loops" as an additional condition in the character create event.

you didn't specify whether you had an event along the lines of:

Start of Level
--> Character 1 - Destroy
--> Character 2 - Destroy
... etc

at the very top of your event list. i'm assuming you don't, and that the "original" objects are still present on the level when it starts. if that's the case, those objects will trigger the create event when they finish their path, even though you don't want them to

@ Xgoff - Forgot to mention that in my topic starter because I was in panic. Sorry about that. But yes, I did make sure to specify "Destroy" in the objects that created the said characters.

@ Latia - Thanks for the tip; I'll investigate into this later. Hopefully this will be the breakthrough I need.

however you should be careful where you place the "Only one action when event loops".

If you place it in the wrong order, it will sometimes cause odd problems later on. I remember I had a problem with something, and I couldn't figure out how to find it. Then I decided to change the order of the "only one action when event loops", and it worked.

where "one action" is in the event shouldn't matter since it's an evaluated condition; however, if it displaced an immediate condition (in red), that could cause weird behavior depending on the immediate condition in question

This post has been edited by Xgoff on Jun 10 2008, 12:08 AM

IT WORKED! I nailed it via this procedure in the Events list:

THANK HEAVENS! Now this yet brings another question...

Boss battles wise -- because this fangame project I'm doing will of course involve them. In the case of them shooting objects toward my character, would this be the breakthrough to use:

Because now I'm disappointed that I overlooked this when...

Spoilers:

I was dealing with the "final boss battle" on my first fangame and noticing that when hammers were launched toward Peach, at times she had two hits deducted from her health if the hammers collided with her!

Sorry for that rant, but I think I just realized something in TGF's coding procedure in the Events List.

This post has been edited by M. C. Productions on Jun 10 2008, 12:06 PM

Yeah, in the engine that I almost have finalized for my new project, most -- if not all -- of the conditions are evaluated (which I'm not surprised), so I'm very sure I'm on the safe side on that front. I was testing those parts numerous times a few nights ago.