Hi guys, can you help me with this (positioning an object around)

You can do it in many ways:

Example:

1-By Tiles, setting them as occupied after you spawn a cannon on them. For this, you can use normal Sprite tiles or Tilemaps Tiles.

2-By Arrays, you can mark the cells that the cannon is in as occupied by setting the XY to 1

etc...

Here is one way by using the Tilemaps method:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wgenu56j26m4xypy6bty2/Spawn-Objects-on-Neighbor-Tiles.capx?rlkey=p4qg99f2ef9a2xh5qsoprjaen&dl=0

Note:

This always follows the same pattern, checks first at his right and then does a clockwise 360-degree check for all the other tiles.

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If you want them to spawn at Random Tile then you need to change a bit the code.

Here is one example:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/40t4wvg3ktnbbz2a18h5a/Spawn-Objects-on-Neighbor-Tiles2.capx?rlkey=etdkbql8xjwhw449e1qga6xhb&dl=0

Dude you are amazing! Thanks again, but how do I make it so that when creating the object, it changes the tile, and when it is destroyed, it sets the available tile again?

Np glad it was helpful

but how do I make it so that when creating the object, it changes the tile

Look at the start of the layout it sets the first objects tiles as occupied, like this:

and when it is destroyed, it sets the available tile again?

The same process but you set the tile to 0

If you have multiple different object types then put them in a family and just reference the family instead.

Dude you are amazing! Thanks again, but how do I make it so that when creating the object, it changes the tile, and when it is destroyed, it sets the available tile again?

The way I'd do it is I'd make it check all available tiles (from checking all existing cannons) every time you want to spawn a new one. That way it'd account for new cannons being placed and old cannons being destroyed.

edit: oh ok his answer is way better (:

I don't know exactly what you're doing tho