please help and whatnot

[Dr. Funk]

I'm in a bit of a pickle getting the mechanics of my game together and I'm in need of some expert help.

All enemies in the game will be made up of 2 objects; the main body, and the arm that holds the weapon. This is because the arm rotates so that the enemy may aim at the player. The problem is, I don't know how to go about making the arm move with the main body.

I know how it would be done if there was only one enemy, but there are several.

The only solution I could come up with is to assign every main body object to an arm object (or vice-versa), and then set it so that the arm's coordinates are always the same as it's "parent" body. I have no idea how this would be accomplished, however.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ellie]

It should be quite simple to just set the one's x and y to the others, I've done this before. I can't remember how, but it was as simple as setting the x and y through D&D commands to something like parent.x and parent.y.

 

[Dr. Funk]

that's what I was thinking, but would that work with multiple instances of the same objects?

 

[Morphex]

Create the arm using code, like when the game starts run through all the enemys objects and create a arma instance set to the coordinates of the parent object?