spawn cloned sprites, each playing a different animation?

[gamekill]

Hey all,

How could I populate my game's screen with several instances of a Sprite object?
Either scattered randomly or in incremental positions like 200,30 200,60 200,90 200,120..

Another problem: Say the Sprite has 3 variations of an "idle" animation. I'd like each of these spawned sprites to randomly play one of the idle anims, not all the same one.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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[onzephyr]

Try this .capx and see if it helps. It has contains two examples. First one creates sprites at a random location on screen and set animation to a choice at random of three. And an organized column and row version that also sets the animation to a choice at random of three. Tweaking the X and Y of the system create action can get you pretty much any organized or disorganized pattern you wish.


Example .CAPX download

 

[gamekill]

Thank you so much onzephyr, it is suddenly so clear how to use the loopindex..

I will use this in my Skeletor in Space game (you can find it on the "in Development" Forum).

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