Does "Pick Nearest" pick itself?

You have 2 instances of the same Sprite.

The following snippet:

Sprite -> Pick Nearest to Self.X, Self.Y

Does it pick itself, or does it pick the other sprite?

Yes they would.

I tried another method.

I have 2 instances of Sprite.

One with UID 0 and one with UID 1.

Pick Sprite with UID 0

• > Pick Nearest Sprite to Self.X Self.Y

   -> Set Text to Sprite.UID

It seems to select the sprite with UID 0, in the first pick, and not the sprite with UID with pick 1.

How would you make a sprite pick the nearest other sprite of the same type?

First you would have to pick one instance, and save its x, and y to a variable, then you would need to make it so that instance is not picked again. So..

On you condition/ trigger picking your object

- call function("myfunction") set parameter index 0 to object.x, set parameter index 1 to object.y

-- set object instance variable variable ("dontPickMe") to 1

On function("myfunction")

-object compare variable("dontPickMe") =0

--object pick closest to object.variable((myfunction.parameter(0),myfunction.parameter(1))

So basically add a function object to get out of the picking issue.

newt

Thanks for the tip. I tried it but it didnt work properly. I'll repost this in the howto section furter and explain my problem better with more detail.

I believe newts example would work, as long as the order is exactly followed. EXCEPT: the first action, make sure to Set the "DontPickMe" to 1 before calling the function.

Check Yann's example in this post:

scirra.com/forum/pick-closest-not-self_topic48443.html