How do I pick a Tiled Background from its family?

I have 5 Tiled Backgrounds and put them in Family. Now I want to insert one of them through action.

How can i do this. I don't want to do this with normal Sprites.

please help.

Put them all in a family.

System action - Create family object.

Create object

Create a new instance of an object type on a layer at a given position. If a Family is chosen, a random object type from the family is picked, and an instance created for that.

I don't want to pick randomly, I want specific Tile Background.

Then select the specific tiled background you want when creating the object...

im also interested in this as i recently switched to families and i have problems understanding how it all works.

I have a character selection layout from which you select the game character you want to play with.

before i added both characters (sprite objects) in the "player" family, i used to have separate event sheets and layouts for each, and in each event sheet i had all the events on that sprite object (jumping, shooting...etc)

What i want now si that once i select the character i want to play with between the two, to only have to apply all the events and actions i had before on the individual object to be applied on the selected family object.

How is that possible.

I created a global variable called player which is 0 initially and when you select a character it either gets the value 1 or 2.

And then i want a specific object from the family to be used when the family is referenced in all the evenst and actions.

Families can be used for picking. When you set the global variable to 1 or 2, create and set an instance variable in the player object to 1 or 2 as well. Then you can use the family - compare instance variable = global variable, it will pick the chosen object.

Although if it is the only existing instance or object in the family on a layout, using the family will only pick that one by default anyway.

I have worked a lot of things with single Tiled Background and everything I want with other tiled backgrounds too. So I don't want to copy paste many times that events and it cannot be used with Functions because i already used functions many times there So It will never be used to reused events.

Note: I never used Tiled background for Background Purpose. I used it for some other purpose.

I wasn't answering you with that post lucky. If you want to create a specific object, just create that object directly instead of selecting the family.

Okay I have found a way to created specific Tiled Background.

Thanks

oosyrag - Amazing explanation. Thank you so much.

Can you tell me a bit more on how i do this:

"Then you can use the family - compare instance variable = global variable, it will pick the chosen object."

Thank you!

You can use "Create object named…" and then call System > Pick last created object from Family

Excerpt from my project to create background "on the fly“ :

Not sure that answers my question.

So at the moment i have a family object called "player" in wich i have 2 sprite objects "player_1" and "player_2"

"player_1" inside the family has an instance variable - selected_player = 1

"player_2" inside the family has an instance variable - selected_player = 2

The family itself doesnt have an instance variable set - as i dont know if the individual object from the family needs to have the instace varibale or the family itself.

I also have a global variable called selected_player = 0

When you select player1 from the character selection layout i set that variable to 1 or 2 based on the selection.

At the start of the game layout i create the player object and place it at specific coordinates.

So the question is, how do i get player_1 or player_2 to appear based on that global variable.

Hope it makes sense.

At the moment they show up randomly.

Thank you so much!