How to have multiple enemies (currently having to kill them in order)

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I’m making a 2D platformer and I made an enemy that shoots the player when it is in a certain range, turns when player is on the other side and has an amount of health. But when I add a second enemy (I did this by duplicating) and try to kill that one first the first enemy gets killed and then I can kill the second enemy wich obviously is not what I want. The second one also only turns when the player is on the other side of the first enemy. That problem is probably the same mistake. I looked for multiple fixes but none of those have helped me so far. It would be great if someone could see the mistake I made. Here is EnemyShoot script :

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyShoot : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Animator anim;

    public GameObject snowBall;
    public Transform throwPoint;

    public AudioSource throwSound;

    public float range;
    private float distance;

    private Transform player;
    private Transform enemy;
   

    private float timer;
    public float timeBetweenShots;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        timer = 0;
        anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
        
    }

    private void Awake()
    {
        
        enemy = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Enemy").transform;
        player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player1").transform;

       
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        timer += Time.deltaTime;

       if (enemy.position.x < player.position.x)
        {
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
        } else
        {
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1, 1, 1);
        }

        distance = Vector2.Distance(player.transform.position, enemy.transform.position);

        if (distance < range && timer > timeBetweenShots)
        {
            
            GameObject ballClone = (GameObject)Instantiate(snowBall, throwPoint.position, throwPoint.rotation);
            ballClone.transform.localScale = transform.localScale;

            anim.SetTrigger("Throw");

            throwSound.Play();

            timer = 0;
        }
    }
}

And here is the EnemyHealth script (there is an enemyCounterin the gamemanager script):

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyHealth : MonoBehaviour {


    public int enemyLife;

    public AudioSource hurtSound;

    public void HurtEnemy()
    {
        enemyLife -= 1;

        hurtSound.Play();
        if (enemyLife == 0)
        {
            gameObject.SetActive(false);
            FindObjectOfType<GameManagerLevels>().enemyCounter -= 1;
        }
    }
}

All help is much appreciated :slight_smile:

2

The problem is that you are using “FindObjectOfType<>” in script 2 and “FindGameObjectWithTag” in script 1.
These functions return the first GameObject matching the description. In your case, always the first enemy.

In script 1, replace

enemy = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Enemy").transform;

with

enemy = this.transform;

I am assuming that script 1 is attached to the enemy object. So “this” will be the correct enemy.
In script 2, replace

FindObjectOfType<EnemyHealth>().HurtEnemy();

with

other.gameObject.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>().HurtEnemy();

This will get the corresponding collider enemy. Then you should be good to go.