How do I set the animation of a created object to the same as the object that created it?

To explain a little clearer (hopefully)

I have a family of objects called Shadows

If an object is on a layer higher than the player, and it's a member of the Shadows family then it spawns a copy of itself on the Shadows Layer.

What I'd like to achieve is that for the spawned object to have the same animation name and frame number as the object that created it... so ...

Object 1 is running the Animation "01" and Frame 2 on a higher layer

Object 1 creates a copy of itself on the shadows layer

The newly created object changes it's animation to "01" and frame to 2

Is this possible?

It's possible, there just might be problems with picking. Did you first manage to create the copy because if you are using a family this wouldn't normally work as it would create a random object from the family, or are you using create object by name?

Nice, that should be easy then. So if you say 'Create object Shadow', you can then set animation to Family.animation and frame to Family.animationframe, as the Family was picked in the condition. If you picked the actual object in the condition i.e. pick Shadow A then created Shadow A then it will be a bit more diffiult. Should work though with Family object 'Shadows' in condition and then 'create object Shadow'.

Ah, that's where I think I'm running into issues.

So it looks like this ...

As both objects are effectively being picked by the family Cast_Shadows, this seems to stop me setting the animation name and frame.

It's odd ... it tells me that Cast_Shadows.Animationframe doesn't take a number when there isn't one in the action whatsoever.

Is it easier in your expert opinion to tag the 'shadow' with a variable identifying the creators UID, then pick via UID and go from there?

I edited the response above, try this. The problem is that you don't know what object will be created so you can't apply actions. If you use Family in the actions then it'll change the one that was created, not the new one. If the above doesn't work then you might have to do logic for individual Shadow objects rather than Family, which isn't that bad.

Thank you so much for taking the time out. I think the easiest solution is unfortunately the most lengthy, but I'll continue tinkering! Thank you again!