Family issues

I'm trying to use a family for my npcs to simplify certain events, and I'm having trouble figuring out a way to do this line of code:

For each NPCS (family)

• distance(Sprite1 & Sprite2) < 100
• - (action) - - Set Variable to 1

• distance(Sprite1 & Sprite2) > or = 100
• Trigger Once While True
• - (action) - - Set Variable to 0

So if there are multiple NPCS on the screen, it's always calculating that the player is > 100 pixels away from at least one of them, so the variable is always set to 0.

If I switch the family for any sprite, it works fine (for obvious reasons). Is this something you can't do with a family?

Shouldn't you check the distance between NPC(family) & Sprite2(player)?

Sorry - that's a typo. It is actually distance(Player.X, Player.Y, NPCS.X, NPCS.Y)

Should work, your problem is probably elsewhere. Got .capx you can show?

for each NPCS

.. distance(Player.X, Player.Y, NPCS.X, NPCS.Y) < 100

... set variable to 1

.. else

... set variable to 0

My capx has gotten a little too large to share, unfortunately. I've searched every event sheet for the variable, and this is really the only place it is affected. If I use the same exact lines of code but switch the NPC family (in the distance event) for a single sprite, it works perfectly fine.

take a look at this simple capx - dropbox.com/s/mrh0ol7t801ofwt/Distance.capx. if it wouldn't help - show the way how you've done it

Thanks for capx, GT88, but it still had the same issue when you add a global variable.

I've figured another way to do it spawning a sprite on each enemy and setting the variable when the player overlaps it instead of using a distance command. Thanks, guys!