How do I pick objects individually without For Each?

So, the main object is Fighter_Control, it's in a container with a Dictionary. And you also have Fighter_Images family, which should be linked with each Fighter_Control. Is this correct?

Is the Control_AI variable unique for each Fighter_Control instance? If it is, then it should be enough to associate Fighter_Images instances with their corresponding Fighter_Control, and to pick them in any events.

But from your screenshot it looks like Control_AI is not unique, for example can it be -1 for both Fighter_Control?

If Control_AI is not unique, or if its value can change during the game, then you should add another instance variable Fighter_Control_UID on the Fighter_Images family, and use it to link images with the control instance.

Yes that is correct, each Control_AI is unique to each Fighter_Control and ranges from 0-4. Usually it is enough, but for whatever reason for this set of events whenever I use Control_AI to link the Fighter_Control and Fighter_Image, the PickedCount always seems to indicate that every instance is being picked (I usually Pick by Comparison, Fighter_Control.Control_AI - Fighter_Image.Control_AI).

I did try that, using the UID and as indicated by my first post doing that causes it to pick only one of the Fighter_Control/Fighter_Images (usually the one with the lowest Control_AI) and only applies the events to that link.

It's hard to tell from the screenshot what are you trying to do there. If these events are located at the top level (not nested under a function or something) and executed on every tick, then the problem must be with the condition where you pick dictionary instance - D_Fighter Key "Animation_Name"=Fighter_Control.Control_ID.

If you don't pick the correct Fighter_Control instance first, then this condition will use Control_ID value of the first instance. And will probably pick only the first dictionary instance also. So if you need to process all Fighter_Controls in this event, you should add "For each" at the top.

It's hard to tell from the screenshot what are you trying to do there. If these events are located at the top level (not nested under a function or something) and executed on every tick, then the problem must be with the condition where you pick dictionary instance - D_Fighter Key "Animation_Name"=Fighter_Control.Control_ID.

If you don't pick the correct Fighter_Control instance first, then this condition will use Control_ID value of the first instance. And will probably pick only the first dictionary instance also. So if you need to process all Fighter_Controls in this event, you should add "For each" at the top.

I've uploaded my CAPX, if that helps. [ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YBoR9H8Qt4lTANerj-xSNh080ign-wNk ]

Normally, I would use a For Each loop but there are more events I need to use for this where a trigger is involved, which don't work under a For Each loop.

Whoa, that's a very cool game!

I didn't notice you have two very similar looking variables Control_ID and Control_AI.. But I still think the mistake is in the first condition - D_Fighter_Ruleset Key "Animation_Name"=Fighter_Control.Control_ID

When you have two Fighter_Control objects with different Control_ID values, this condition will pick only one D_Fighter_Ruleset instance, belonging to the first instance of Fighter_Control. If you need to check the dictionary for both fighters, you need to add For Each above the condition.

The rest of the event looks ok to me, although I would strongly recommend removing Trigger Once from sub-events. Trigger Once doesn't work "per instance", so in case of multiple instances it will almost certainly cause bugs and problems.

Thank you!

That makes sense, although what could I use as an alternative? If I wanted to run something only once when the animation starts, or only once when a frame starts what would I use instead of trigger once?

That makes sense, although what could I use as an alternative? If I wanted to run something only once when the animation starts, or only once when a frame starts what would I use instead of trigger once?

You start animations in some events, use the same events to run your code, or call a function from there. For frames - you can use "On frame changed" event, it's triggered only once for each frame.

You start animations in some other events, you can run your code there, or call a function. For frame changes use "On frame changed" event, it's triggered only once for every frame per each object instance.

I also use this little trick, where I define an image point on one frame in a long animation, to mark it as a "key" frame:

Thanks for helping me out. I've changed things around and but this into practice, but I'm still having a few issues.

Normally this event would be nested under the animation playing events, but this is the new version. However, it's become apparent that for some reason when this triggers, only the Fighter_Control created first is picked as the one colliding-- even if it is completely not in motion (Family_Control being just a family with only Fighter_Control). I am... not quite sure how to fix this?

Additionally, I want to go over part of what I did to fix it just for future reference.

Essentially I have it set up so that the dictionary stores the previous animation used by changing the key to the current animation name at the end of the first loop; so if the key is not equal to the current animation name then that means this is the first loop of that animation. I use this to reset a bunch of keys back to false, ones that are named to be triggers for this animation and fighter specifically. I have all of the events I need to trigger once only trigger when its false, and immediately set it back to true.

If you need to process pairs of fighters, to decide which one makes a punch and which one gets hit, update animations etc., use this code:

Oh! That is really smart! Thank you for the help.