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Help, everything but touch_damage and sp_brain won't work!! (I have made the bonca, in a script attatched to the screen)Please help!

VOID MAIN(VOID)
{
sp_hitpoints(&bonca, 1);
sp_defense(&bonca, 2);
sp_target(&bonca, 1);
sp_brain(&bonca, 6);
sp_exp(&bonca, 20);
sp_touch_damage(&bonca, 4);
sp_strength(&bonca, 2);

}

(I musta sounded pretty dern' shtupid sayin' thet es noet assashed to de shreen! Bet, est en one o dem' sp_scripts,)

What would you like it to do? It's brain 6 which means looping sequence. You should give it brain 9 (diagonal-walking enemy) or 10 (not-diagonal-walking enemy).
Somehow sp_touch_damage willonly work with enemies and brain 0 sprites (for hurting vines or something)

Okay first of all brain 6 can't have a target assigned to it. Your brain 6 sprite won't loop either until you put sp_seq(&current_sprite, seq#) right after the brain is assigned.

I'm not sure if touch damage doesn't work for brain 6. I think it does though, but it will only hurt Dink not other enemies.

(I musta sounded pretty dern' shtupid sayin' thet es noet assashed to de shreen! Bet, est en one o dem' sp_scripts)

I failed to translate that

By the way, why do you want the bonca to be brain 6 anyway? If you want it to walk around you need to assign a base_walk value to it and give it brain 9.
Oh and without giving it a speed factor your sprite won't move anyway.

I meant, I already put a script saying base_walk and other stuff to create the actual sprite on the screen. This script is assigned to that local variable using sp_script(&yeah, "Blah");. That's what you get for trying to memorize the brains. And, one last thing, If I have a VOID MAIN(VOID) script, I can attatch it to any sprite because it'll run when the screen is loading no matter what, am I right?

Yes, Void Main SHOULD always run. However, I have been in certain situations where it doesn't run or maybe not right away. I have no explanation for this though.

Thank You!

why not just add those lines after you've made the bonca in the script that is attached to the screen? And is &bonca a global variable?

No it's a local. Also, I realise my scripting flaws are fully visible

That's irritating. You can fix it by putting wait(1); or fade_up(); (without ever being faded down of course) as the first line of the script.
I don't know why, but it works!

make sure its hitpoints don't get set in both script and editor properties. Either will do, but not both.